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Ancient and Medieval Church History

Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, has made several classes available for free online through their Worldwide Classroom.

Although Ancient and Medieval Church History is a college-level course, I believe it would be appropriate for a high school student studying this topic.

In order to listen to these free classes, you’ll need to register with Worldwide Classroom. After registering, you’ll be able to listen to all of these sessions on Mp3, as well as download written transcripts and study guides for each lecture.

Click here to learn more about this course or to download a syllabus.

Click here to learn more about Worldwide Classroom.

Click here for Covenant Theological Seminary’s statement of faith.

Click here to access the Free Registration page, a necessary step to listening to all that Worldwide Classroom has to offer.

Here is a course description and a list of the topics covered in this course.
Course Description (taken from the Worldwide Classroom site):
A study of Christianity from the Early Church to the dawn of the Reformation, with source material readings. This course places an emphasis on the application of church history to life and ministry and helps the student to understand the development of Christian thought and the formulation of doctrine as part of God’s overall pattern of history. This course is taught by David Calhoun.

Lesson 1: The Study of Church History

Lesson 2: The Growth of the Christian Church

Lesson 3: The Persecutions

Lesson 4: The Apologists

Lesson 5: Orthodoxy and Heresy

Lesson 6: Canon, Creed, and Bishops

Lesson 7: The Early Church Fathers

Lesson 8: The People of the Early Church

Lesson 9: The Church in the Fourth Century

Lesson 10: The Beginnings of Monasticism

Lesson 11: Donatism

Lesson 12: The Council of Nicea

Lesson 13: Cappadocians and Constantinople

Lesson 14: Ambrose, Jerome, and Chrysostom

Lesson 15: Augustine’s Confessions

Lesson 16: Augustine and the Pelagian Controversy

Lesson 17: Augustine’s Theology of History

Lesson 18: The Council of Chalcedon

Lesson 19: The Early Middle Ages

Lesson 20: Medieval Missions

Lesson 21: The Christianization of Great Britain

Lesson 22: Learning and Theology

Lesson 23: Eastern Orthodoxy

Lesson 24: The Late Middle Ages

Lesson 25: Medieval Monasticism

Lesson 26: Crusades or Missions?

Lesson 27: The Waldensians

Lesson 28: Scholastic Theology

Lesson 29: Thomas Aquinas

Lesson 30: The Sacramental System

Lesson 31: Church and State

Lesson 32: Wycliffe and Hus

Lesson 33: Reform in Italy

Lesson 34: Mysticism and the Modern Devotion

Lesson 35: The Waning of the Middle Ages

Appendix A: Catholic World Missions

Appendix B: The Spread of the Western Church

Appendix C: The Spread of the Eastern Church

Appendix D: The 100 Most Important Dates in Church History

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Eric Liddell

The Torchlighters animated children’s series about Christian Heroes is very well done. Here is a preview:

Netflix subscribers can stream Chariots of Fire,the Academy Award winning movie about Eric Liddell, from their home computer. Here is the original trailer:

Parents, please do not allow your children to peruse YouTube (or any other video sharing site) alone, and preview all video content before sharing with your children.

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Jonathan Edwards: Sinners in the hands of an angry God

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God part 1

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God part 2

Sinners… e-text

This famous sermons is also available here .

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Adventures in Odyssey historical radio drama

Focus on the Family Adventures in Odyssey

Focus on the Family has made several episodes of Adventures in Odyssey available for free streaming or download. Click the above link, which will take you to the Focus on the Family media page. You’ll see a gray tool bar underneath the media player; click Sort By Shows. Then look through the list going down the left hand side and click Adventures in Odyssey. Select the audio you would like to hear.

I found several historical episodes, but their titles are being regularly changed and updated, so check their site regularly if you are an Adventures in Odyssey fan!

Clicking this link will take you away from My Audio School to the Focus on the Family website. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School.

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Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss

To download to MP3, click here.

To read this book yourself, click here.

Subscribe in iTunes

To listen, click play in the box below or click on the chapter links.

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Sermons about Reformers

This podcast from Columbia, South Carolina First Presbyterian Church’s Thornwell Lecture Series includes sermons about The Life of John Calvin (from Dr. Mark Ross), William Tyndale (Rev. Iain Murray) and Martin Luther (Rev. Dr. John R. de Witt).

Clicking this link will take you to the church’s online media page, where you’ll see an audio player. Scan through the archives to find these messages.

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Audio Bible

Now you can stream any chapter in the Bible in audio format, thanks to Bible Gateway. Choose to listen in either Real Audio or Flash Player, pick the version, book and chapter you want to hear and click “play audio”. Please note that you must have either Real Audio or Flash Player on your computer to hear the audio.

There are also foreign language audio Bible readings available in Spanish, Farsi, Arabic and Slovak.

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Biblical Languages

Want to hear what Hebrew sounds like? Listen to Genesis 1 read in Hebrew.

Click here to find the entire Old Testament read in Hebrew.

Here is a link to The Lord’s Prayer read in Aramaic.

CurrClick offers several products to teach children to read Hebrew or Greek.

These links will take you away from My Audio School. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School.

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Dangerous Journey video

Answers in Genesis has made the Dangerous Journey video available for free on their site. Dangerous Journey is a children’s book based on Pilgrim’s Progress. This video has a narrator reading the book, and shows images from the drawings in the book.

To view the video of Dangerous Journey, click on this link. This will take you away from My Audio School. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School.

When you get to the Answers in Genesis site, page down and click “Dangerous Journey, part 1″. There are 9 parts to this video series, and you can access them all for free at the above link. They won’t stream continuously, however. After watching each section, you’ll need to click on the next section to view it.