Code
CH3017W – Undergraduate
CH9017W – Postgraduate
Unit offered alternatively as:
CT3017W – Undergraduate
CT9017W – Postgraduate
CH9017W – Postgraduate
Unit offered alternatively as:
CT3017W – Undergraduate
CT9017W – Postgraduate
Level
Undergraduate and Postgraduate
Discipline
Church History (CH)
Field
Christian Thought and History (C)
Prerequisites
One standard unit in CH and one standard unit in CT
Location
Whitley College view location >
Faculty
Marita Munro view profile >
Class Time
Nine sessions of 4 hours each
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Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this unit, it is expected that students will be able to:
Undergraduate
- Identify and evaluate themes and challenges faced by Australia’s churches since white settlement.
- Articulate the ways in which significant Christian individuals have engaged with and responded to these themes and challenges.
- Describe the ongoing influence or impact of these responses upon the church and wider society.
- Discuss critically the implications of the issues and responses considered for Christian identity in the Australian context.
Postgraduate
- Identify and evaluate themes and challenges faced by Australia’s churches since white settlement.
- Articulate the ways in which significant Christian individuals have engaged with and responded to these themes and challenges.
- Describe the ongoing influence or impact of these responses upon the church and wider society.
- Discuss critically the implications of the issues and responses considered for Christian identity in the Australian context.
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Assessment
Undergraduate
- One tutorial paper (1,500 words) (25%)
- One book review (1,000 words) (25%)
- One essay (2,500 words) (50%)
Postgraduate
- One seminar paper (1,500 words) (25%)
- One project report (1,500 words) (25%)
- Essay (3,000 words) (50%)
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Recommended reading
- Atkinson, Alan. The Europeans in Australia: A History (3 vols). Vol.1 Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997; Vols 2 and 3. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2014, 2016.
- Breward, Ian. A History of the churches in Australasia. Oxford: OUP, 2001.
- Broome, Richard. Aboriginal Australians: black responses to white dominance, 1788-2001 (4th revised edn). Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2010
- Cadwallader, Alan, ed. In the land of larks and heroes. Hindmarsh, SA: ATF, 2010.
- Carey, Hilary M. God’s empire: religion and colonialism in the British world. Cambridge: CUP, 2013.
- Costello, Tim. Streets of hope: finding God in St Kilda. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1998.
- Frame, Tom. Losing my religion: Unbelief in Australia. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2009.
- Kenny, Robert. The lamb enters the dreaming: Nathaniel Pepper and the ruptured world. Melbourne: Scribe, 2007
- Linder, Robert D. ‘The long tragedy’: Australian Evangelical Christians and the Great War, 1914-1918. Adelaide: Open Book, 2000
- Maddox, Marion. God under Howard: The rise of the Religious Right in Australian politics. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2005.
- Manley, Ken R. with B Coe. ‘The grace of goodness’: John Saunders Baptist pastor and activist
Macquarie Park: Greenwood Press, 2014. - O’Brien, Anne. God’s willing workers: women and religion in Australia. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2005.
- Piggin, Stuart. Spirit, Word and world: Evangelical Christianity in Australia. Melbourne: Acorn, 2012
- Thompson, Roger C. Religion in Australia: a history (2nd edn). Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002.