Learner Reviews & Feedback for A Journey through Western Christianity: from Persecuted Faith to Global Religion (200 - 1650) by Yale University
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ES
Mar 23, 2018
A great journey! Lots of information and bonus material! I'm very thankful for the course. It might be that the professor's speech is sometimes a bit difficult to follow, but it's a minor drawback
AB
Jan 3, 2021
Thank you so much for offering this course for free. It was a great way to learn and understand the complicated history of my faith as it maneuvered the world around it that I was never aware of.
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By Elizabeth
鈥Apr 10, 2021
Very good!!
By Cayetano A C
鈥May 10, 2025
Excelente.
By Jos茅 E L P
鈥Aug 1, 2023
Excellent.
By Daisey C
鈥Apr 7, 2021
Excellent!
By Tania K
鈥Jan 26, 2021
Amazing !
By valeria j b b
鈥Jan 3, 2021
excelente
By Miurel M
鈥Aug 12, 2020
Excelente
By Miguel D
鈥Jul 5, 2020
thank you
By Charles E M
鈥Apr 30, 2018
Everthing
By Abdulqader A
鈥Jul 9, 2019
amazing
By Eleonora D C
鈥Jun 2, 2021
great
By Sweet S
鈥Jun 21, 2020
Good!!
By Loke Y K
鈥May 2, 2022
Good
By Iv谩n S
鈥Nov 14, 2022
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By Vincent B
鈥Nov 19, 2017
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By Kenneth O
鈥Oct 5, 2017
This is an excellent course. Prof. Gordon offers a very intimate and compelling narrative through the fifteen hundred years of history presented. Hi is a very good storyteller! He brings this complex topic to life through his focus on the individual people who impacted and were impacted by their times as our context for understanding the broader social and theological events that were occurring. I not only learned much, but enjoyed doing so. Therefore the course certainly fulfilled my expectations. I rated it four stars rather than five however because I missed interactivity. The discussion area was not really utilized and many posts were not only old, apparently from an earlier presentation of the course, but went unanswered or with no dialogue by other participants. My suggested would be to make this aspect of the course as compelling as Dr. Gordon's presentations by enhancing interactivity through stimulation of topics and active engagement.
By Bach-Mai V
鈥Mar 16, 2018
Fascinating survey course that touches on the major figures and trends that led the early Christian church from a persecuted minority to a global movement. Good representation of the economic, political, and cultural context of this evolution. I learned a lot, fleshing out the things I'd previously picked up in grade school world history and art history courses. Excellent choice for anybody interested in European history and religion. My only complaint is the lead professor's lecture style, which seemed off-the-cuff and halting and stream-of-consciousness, even though his content was very much on point. I often read the transcripts of his videos rather than listen to his voice. Also, it would have been nice to have more dynamic videos like I've seen in other courses from Yale via 糖心vlog官网观看. Each video is the professor standing or pacing in front of 3 images projected or mounted behind him.
By Shima S
鈥Apr 29, 2020
I loved the material in this course, and found that 11 weeks went by really quickly. The course was strengthened by the mix of lecturers and the discussion videos. Assessments help synthesize the material. In terms of constructive feedback, I think it would be even better if readings included summaries/overviews of topics. The narrative quickly moves through different characters in different historical and socio-political times, so some sort of big picture overview would be really helpful. Overall highly recommend, and I hope there's a 2nd course that continues where this one left off.
By Russell B
鈥May 2, 2020
I took this essentially as a refresher course, but I learned a great deal above and beyond that, and it exceeded my expectations. The teachers are all engaging and the coverage is thorough. My only caveats: I did think that there was a bit of a gap in coverage of the early centuries of Christianity as the official religion of the Empire, and I thought there was some downplaying here and there of the darker sides of Catholic and Protestant versions of Western Christianity. Overall, though, this course is very good and delivers what it claims.
By Thomas B
鈥Sep 7, 2023
Course was as expected. Given the time frame up to 1650 I would have expected to have the King James translation of 1611 covered in the course content given it still plays a major role in Christianity today. Videos were information, assessments were reasonable yet one will need to pay attention in order to pass. Some of the additional material links were not working. Found the additional material links that worked (95%) quite interesting and very much of additional benefit to the course subject matter for that week.
By Anrai N
鈥Jan 28, 2025
A very good overview of the history and evolution of Christianity which was broad and was pitched at the right level for me. I learned a lot in a short time. I would note the absence of any reference to the colonization of Ireland by England and the persecution of the native Irish Catholic Population by the Protestant based Monarchy from the 16th to the 19th Century.
By Martha L B B
鈥Jul 26, 2020
En algunos de los temas se evidencia parcialidad de los exponentes hacia una determinada agrupaci贸n o representante religioso, como en varios de los videos en que se habla de los representantes del protestantismo y/o se critica a la Iglesia Cat贸lica sin cuidarse de mostrarse imparciales y objetivos.
By Noah M
鈥Aug 24, 2017
For a free resource, all things considered, this was a helpful and useful brief overview of the early history of Christianity, that can be taken and underwent (excluding the 'bonus' material, which I liked very much) in a short period of time.
By In-Ho K
鈥May 8, 2022
I was excited to learn what was presnted session by session throughout the course. I like to continue the journey on the western Christanity after 1650.
By ioulia a
鈥Jan 7, 2021
Great course,!!! Very interesting if you want to learn what Christianity was like in Western Europe until 17th century.