Selected Topics of Church History

This course pursues in-depth selected topics of Church history of special interest to the churches of Asia and the Philippines. Against the background of universal Church history and the successive paradigms of Roman Primacy, and coming from a missionary perspective, the course intends to present a historical survey of the principal periods and forms of Christianity in Asia, from the Apostolic and Patristic times (the Asian Patriarchates) to the centuries of the great Asian Empires (Arabic and Mongol) and the arrival of the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English, and French in Asia. Special attention will be given to the present situation of local Church in Asia since World War II and Vatican Council II, and the rise of Asian Theology.