General
- ICLNet’s Christian books online – Bibles, primary source documents, etc. Enough treasure for a lifetimes research!
- Bible Gateway (Including Online Bible: many translations)
- Operation World: Year 2 encourages your children to pray for Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. This site, for many, will replace the need for a copy of Operation World.
- BBC Religion and Ethics: this site enables you to read about various religions.
- The Ism Book: an online book for basic definitions that will help you in your worldview studies.
- A Treasury Of Primary Documents: organizing principle is “documents that pertain to Early American history.” Begins at 500 B.C. – 1800 A.D.
- Helpful information on the History of World Missions, including a time line.
- YWAM: missionary puzzles and coloring pages
Unit 1 – The Middle Ages
Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire
- Saint Valentine
- Augustine of Hippo
- Augustine Confessions
- Augustine Confessions
- SparkNotes: Augustine Confessions
Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church
Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam
- Islam: links here and here.
- Learn more about Islam from ChristianAnswers.net.
- The Koran
- The Cross & the Crescent: A Christian Response to Islam.(pdf)
- Translation of the Islamic Call to Prayer.
- Muslim Population Worldwide
Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne
- Holy Roman Empire in 800 AD.
Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age
Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism
- Anselm’s writings: Read from the Monologium and Proslogium.
- Anselm: ontological arguments
- Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man)
- Pope Gregory VII
Week 7: The High Middle Ages
- St. Francis
- Bede, Missionary to England
- Benedictines
- Click here to read about the Dominicans.
- Read from the Catholic Encyclopedia about the teachings of Moses Maimonides.
- Also from the Catholic Encyclopedia, read the biography of Bernard of Clairvaux.
- Paragraph biography of Averroes
- An introduction to the origins of the Inquisition
Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East
- Need a substitute for Trial and Triumph this week? Read here about Waldensians.
- A Christian Response to Hinduism
Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe
Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation
Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation
Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance
- A general description of humanism.
Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers
- A good description of the Spanish Inquisition.
- Tomas de Torquemada
- Pope Alexander V
- Girolamo Savonarola
Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration
- Pope Leo X
- A general description of humanism.
Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas
Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars
- Biography of Erasmus
- William Tyndale
- Martin Luther
Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States
- From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Biography of Martin Luther
- The Bondage of the Will
- Luther’s 95 Theses
- Justification and Imputed Righteousness by R.C. Sproul.
- Interesting discussions about Protestant positions on “infused righteous” and “imputed righteousness.”
- Catholic Encyclopedia on Justification
Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia
- Huldreich Zwingli
- John Calvin On Predestination
- A Brief Comparative Study of Arminianism and Calvinism.
- The English Reformation – history and timeline
- Thomas Cranmer
- Reformed theology: What is It?
- Huldreich Zwingli, chronology
- Conrad Grebel
- Michael Sattler
- Melchior Hoffman
- Jan Matthys
- Menno Simons with GodTube audio, Mennonites
- Jacob Ammann and the Amish
- Read more here about the Amish.
- Jacob Hutter and Hutterites
- Anabaptists
- Moravian Church
- Who are the Mennonites?
- “The Amish & the Plain People”
- English Martyrs: Anne Askew, Hugh Latimer.
Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands
- Roman Catholic Encyclopedia: Council of Trent
- Canons on Justification from the Council of Trent.
- Jeanne d’Albret: Jeanne III of Navarre
- Renee, Duchess of Ferrara
- Justification: Calvin vs. Trent
Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation
- John Knox
- Read about Presbyterianism from the Catholic Encyclopedia
- Sir Francis Bacon
Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies
Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe
Week 21: Puritans in New England
- Conformists–Puritans–Separatists
- Congregationalists
- Unitarian Society: history and beliefs
- Gustavus Adolphus
Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War
- Good link for Margaret MacLaughlan and Margaret Wilson
- The English Civil War
- The Puritan Revolution
- The Act of Toleration (1689)
- Westminster Confession of Faith
- Conformists–Puritans–Separatists
Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV
- John Bunyan
- Conformists–Puritans–Separatists
- Edict of Nantes
- 35 Largest Christian Denominations in the United States
Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason
Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans
- There are no Church History Objectives for this week.
Week 26: Empires at Odds
Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies
Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions
Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture
Week 29: French & Indian War
Week 30: Give Me Liberty!
Week 31: First Battles for Independence
- There are no Church History Objectives for this week.
Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War
- There are no Church History Objectives for this week.
Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation
- There are no Church History Objectives for this week.
Week 34: Writing the Constitution
- There are no Church History Objectives for this week.
Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution
- There are no Church History Objectives for this week.
Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration
- There are no Church History Objectives for this week.