Dana Robert, Coordinator
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
T: 617.353.3054
E: drobdan@bu.edu
The program is designed to provide a broad
overview of the history and thought of
World Christianity as well as to train
specialists for careers in a clearly defined
area. A hallmark of the program is faculty
commitment to the complementarity of intellectual,
social, and cultural history.
The program intends to train students to
read historical literature critically,
and to write history according to rigorous
standards of method and style. To initiate
this purpose the program offers all entering
students a proseminar on historiography
that examines interpretive and theoretical
literature on the nature and purposes of
historical material that focuses on classical
texts on the History of Christianity from
Augustine to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Program strengths include Reformation studies,
early Modern and Modern European Christianity
with particular concentrations on Germany
and the British Isles, Christianity in
America, and the history of Christianity
of modern missions and non-Western Christianity.
Faculty in other departments in the University
and in the Boston Theological Institute
also work in the History of Christianity,
and students are urged to become familiar
with their offerings and to pursue interdisciplinary
work.
Degrees offered: Master
of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy
Faculty: Backman,
Diefendorf, Fredriksen, Klepper, Landes,
Mason, Prothero, Robert
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