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• Syllabus

• Learn to Navigate Website: https://www.martyrpersecutedchurch.com/

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• Reading:

  • Acts 6 and 7

  • Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Early Disciples)

• ​Optional Reading and Videos: 

  • Girard: Animated intro to Mimetic Desire and Rivalry (3 min)

  • Girard: Brief interview with Rene Girard (7 min)

  • Girard Video: Mimetic Desire (2 min)

  • Girard Video: Mimesis and Scapegoating (3 min)

  • CS Lewis Reading: Christian Apologetics (pay attention to the words “thick” and “clear”)

Reading and Video:

• Acts 4:1-12, Acts 16, Acts 19:21ff, Galatians 2. 

• Eusebius, The Martyrdom of Polycarp

• Brief Video on Roman Persecution

• Correspondence between Pliny and Trajan

Optional Reading/Videos:

• Tacitus on the Neronian Persecution 

• G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man: Chapter 7, The War of Gods and Demons (pp. 74-82).

• Reading:

  • Reading 1 The Geometry of Love

  • Reading 2 The Geometry of Love

• Optional Resource:

  • The Geometry of Love (book) 

• Reading and Video:

  • Video on the Benedict Option, Dreher (10 min) 

• Optional Reading/Videos 

  • The Benedict Option Dreher (the book) 

  • Resource: The Rule of St. Benedict

• Reading:

  • Summary Reading on St. Anthony (pp. 1-9) 

  • Selected Readings: A Plea for Christians (Athenagoras the Athenian)

• Optional Reading/Videos

  • The Life of St. Anthony

  • Through the Eye of a Needle, (Book by Peter Brown)

  • Amusing Planet Post: Simon Stylites

  • The Man Who Lived On Top of A Pillar from 37 Years

• Reading or Video:

  • The Gospel Coalition: Who was St. Athanasius and Why is He Important?

  • Kevin DeYoung: Who Was St. Boniface?

• Optional Reading/Videos:

  • Amusing Planet Post: Simon Stylites

  • The Man Who Lived On Top of A Pillar from 37 Years (9 min)

• Reading and Videos:

  • Perpetua and Felicity, The Acts of the Martyrs

  • Lawrence, Joking through Martyrdom 

• Optional Reading/Video:

  • Catholic Video Sebastian 

• Reading:

  • City of God Book 1, Sections 16-18 and 27. 

  • First Things: “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism” Aaron Renn

• Optional Reading/Video:

  • City of God, Book 1 

  • Touchstone Article: “When Worlds Die” Peter Leithart 

• Reading:

  • Orthodox Church in America: John Chrysostom

  • Plough Quarterly: Letter from Ambrose to Theodosius Urging Repentance

• Optional Reading/Videos:

  • Video on Hagia Sophia (I know it did not exist when Chrysostom was there)

  • Stick Figure Video of Ambrose and Theodosius

  • Bible Unleashed: John Chrysostom Video 

• Reading:

  • Reading from Gonzalez on Avignon Papacy and Council of Constance (which condemned Huss) (photocopy)

• Optional Reading/Videos: 

  • Becket (1964 Movie) (Free on Amazon Prime, Tubi, Peacock, Roku Channel)

  • Music: “The Moldau” Smetana  

  • John Wycliffe Video (28min)

  • John Huss (1977 Movie) 

• Reading/Listening:

  • The Gospel Coalition (Australia): The Gospel of Cancel Culture

  • David Kieffer Sermon: “Becoming a Really Good Bad Guy”

• Optional Video:

  • Rosaria Butterfield “Five Lies of our Anti-Christian Age”

• Special Project: Your Own Personal SWOT Analysis 

• Optional Videos: 

  • John MacArthur and John Piper Interview

  • Doug Wilson: Escaping the Cult of Nice