FOOTNOTES citations & Bibliography
Preparation of eight 1-page responses to questions based on the assigned primary source readings for the week and discussion questions provided. Space limitations prevent extensive quoting from primary sources, but you should indicate where important points supporting your answers are found with parenthetic page, section, or paragraph numbers, as appropriate.
Justo L. Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the
Reformation Revised and Updated (New York: Harper One, 2010). Gonzalez, pp. 387-432; chs. 33-34
Willam J. Dohar, The Black Death and Pastoral Leadership: The Diocese of Hereford in the Fourteenth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), 61-87.
RWCH:
The Lives of Mar Yahbh-Allaha and Rabban Sawma (pp. 373-384)
The Council of Constance (pp. 414-415)
The Council of Florence on Church Union (pp. 415-417)
Upload a Word document with your response to at least two of the following questions. Your response should be at least 200 words, but no more that 250. You must upload your response. Students who enter text in the box below will not receive credit.
Questions:
In the account of Mar Yahbh-Allaha and Rabban Sawma, what happened to the two men? What do the experiences of both men tell you about the place of Christianity among the Mongols in their lifetimes?
What does the Council of Constance see as its purpose within the life of the church? What source of authority does the Council of Constance claim for its work? How does that compare with papal claims of authority?
What are the principal differences between Eastern and Western Christianity that the Council of Florence attempted to resolve? How would you characterize the attempted reconciliation and what does it tell you about the state of the relationship between eastern and western Christianity?