Christine Helmer, EURIAS Fellow 2012-2013, New MOOC "Luther and the West"

Christine Helmer, Arthur E. Andersen Teaching and Research Professor, Professor of Religious Studies and German, Northwestern University & former EURIAS Fellow launches "Luther and the West" MOOC (massive open online course).

 

The course launches October 3rd, 2016. 

 

About this course: In this course will be discussed the history of some ideas that have been hugely influential in the modern west and that were taken out to the rest of the world. The discussion centers on an extraordinary and historically important figure, a sixteenth century German man named Martin Luther. Luther is recognized today as the originator of many of the most significant ideas that continue to affect and shape who we as modern people are and how we see the world and ourselves for better and for worse.