W. Robert Godfrey

I'll start a little before 1100, go a little past 1200, but it's a century for government work.

And then the third part will be called working it out.

We're going to look at the implications of what was accomplished in that wondrous century and how it moved on towards the end of the Middle Ages, looking at the period of about 1200 to 1500.

And in each of those three sections, I'm going to subdivide the section into two main parts.

One part I'm calling church and society, where we'll look a little bit more at politics, at institutions, at the response of people in the churches.

We might call that the more church history side of what we're doing.

And then the other section I'm going to call Paths to God.

And that will be the somewhat more theological side of what we're going to do.

Because as we go along, I want us always to remember that while theology is important, and I only say that because R.C.

Sproul may be listening.

I actually do believe that.

While theology is important, it's not everything.

And so when we study history, we shouldn't just study historical theology, but we ought to try to see that theology in historical context.

Why did people care about theology?

What institutions did theology lead to?

What institutions produced theology?

What were the great figures that thought theologically, and what influenced them in the ways they thought?

How did theology actually trickle down to the churches?

You know, if the Lord tarries another thousand years and archaeologists find books by R.C.

Sproul, hopefully they won't need to be archaeologists that find them, but if someone finds books by R.C.