Fall 2009

Dear Student,

Thank you for your interest in CPRL 200 Introduction to Christianity.

This course offers an overview of the Christian tradition including Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant expressions. We will discuss foundational councils, creeds, scriptures, ideas, and worship styles.

The complete syllabus will be available soon.

Please print a copy and bring it to the first class.

Required Texts: ALERT: Titan Bookstore may have an incorrect book list for this course. Please be sure to use the following booklist.

Available at Little Professor Book Center 714-996-3133 or at your favorite on-line book seller.

McGrath, Alister. An Introduction to Christianity. Second Edition. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell, 2006. ISBN: 1-4051-0899-1

Ware, Timothy. The Orthodox Church. New York: Penguin, new ed. 1977. ISBN: 0140146563.

Walsh, Michael. Roman Catholicism: The Basics. New York: Routledge, 2005. ISBN 0415263816.

Marsden, George. Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991. ISBN: 0802805396.

Additional Readings and Notes must be downloaded from Blackboard.

Recommended: Bible. Preferably the New Revised Standard Version. Recommended: The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha/ New Revised Standard Version: College Edition. Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN: 0195284119.

If you have questions before the course begins,

please send me an E-mail at pLevesque@Fullerton.edu

You can also contact me at: 657-278-5902

My office is UH 315.

I look forward to seeing you in the course.