Course Syllabus
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Lecture 1 At the Dawn of a New World
Lecture 2 To the Corners of the Earth: Overseas Missions
Lecture 3 The Catholic Church in the Age of Absolutism
Lecture 4 The Catholic Church and the Enlightenment
Lecture 5 The French Revolution
Lecture 6 Napoleon and the Church
Lecture 7 The Challenge of Liberalism
Lecture 8 Struggles with Nationalism
Lecture 9 Vatican I and the Fall of Papal Rome
Lecture 10 The Catholic Church in North America
Lecture 11 Labor and War
Lecture 12 In an Age of Dictators
Lecture 13 Vatican II
Lecture 14 Pope John Paul II and Beyond
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Course Overview
As the world entered the modern age, the Catholic Church
faced new challenges to its authority, both from without and
within. As one of the planet’s oldest institutions, the Church
had already survived sixteen centuries, but as winds of change
altered the global landscape, the Church’s very existence would
be called into question.
Professor Thomas F. Madden leads these compelling lectures,
focusing on a Church both adapting to a world in flux and
striving to exert its influence and power. Throughout modernity, the Church responded to—and weathered—a host of major
world events: the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, colonization of the New World, and of course the World Wars that
in large part defined the twentieth century.
As the face of the Church, the popes affected Catholicism in
ways that can only be truly understood from a careful examination of the past. And so the lives of the popes, along with
major Church proceedings, wars, and other significant world
events, are brought to bear in a comprehensive look at the
Church in the modern age.
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 Catholic Church in the Modern Age (Booklet)
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Professor
Professor Thomas F. Madden
(Saint Louis University)
Thomas F. Madden is a professor of
history and director of the Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint
Louis University. His numerous scholarly
publications include Empires of Trust: How
Rome Built—and America Is Building—a
NewWorld (Dutton, 2008), The New
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