The title of the 2013–2014 Roman Forum New York Church History Discussion Series was War in Heaven and the City of Man: Laying the Groundwork for a Garden of Earthly Delights, 1629-1689. Both audio and videotapes of all lectures will be posted on the Roman Forum Soundcloud.

Syllabus

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2014

September 7: Stairways to Heaven: The Baroque Cultural Environment

September 21: Popes, Bishops, Religious, & Tridentine Reform: I

September 28: Popes, Bishops, Religious, & Tridentine Reform: II

October 19: Dévots, Bon Français & Ambiguous Christian Monarchy

November 2: Westphalia and the Collapse of International Christendom

November 16: Baroque Regalism and the Fractured Empire

November 30: The Regalist Onslaught in the Ibero-Italian World

December 14: New World Christianity: Religion, Regalism, & the Creoles

2015

January 18: Jansenius, Saint-Cyran, the Great Arnauld, & Port Royal

February 1: Regalism, Le Roi Soleil, and the Gallican Threat

February 15: Piety, Mysticism, and Pastoral Discontents

March 1: Intercontinental Crimes Committed in the Name of Grace

March 15: The Turk You Will Always Have With You

March 29: Raskol and Russian Tsardom

April 12: Descartes, Deus, et Machina

April 26: The Dutch Kaleidoscope and the Shadow of Spinoza

May 10: Manifold Agonies of the Anglican World

May 17: Glorious Revolution & the Foundations of Locke Land