A satisfied student

During the fall semester of 2006, I had the opportunity and privilege to take a course entitled A Global History of Christianity — a survey at Knox College, Toronto, taught by Dr. Stuart MacDonald, assisted by David Robinson.
What prompted me to take this course was a strong desire to know what happened after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus, how the Gospel and the Church spread throughout the world, why certain books became part of the canonic New Testament and other books were excluded, what the position of women truly was in the early Christian Church, who was Mary Magdalene and what was her association with Jesus, and other questions regarding the origin of the New Testament and the nature of the early Church.
I found this course very interesting and I learned far more than I had expected about the global history of the Church. The readings for the course, including both primary and secondary sources, and the seminars provided ample material and prompted me to read many other books related to the materials being studied. Some of these included readings of the Gnostic gospels as well as commentaries on these books.