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History Of Christianity
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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'MacCulloch's fresh way of thinking and thorough research upturns long-held views on how we typically view the major religion of the west.'--The Guardian
Presented by Diarmaid MacCulloch - one of the world's Ieading historians and Professor of History of the Church at St Cross CoIlege Oxford, A History of Christianity considers the evoIution of the Christian faith and its four main forms: Orthodoxy, Oriental Christianity, Western Catholicism and Protestantism.
ln this fascinating series Professor MacCulloch explains how Christianity first spread east, extending into Syria, CentraI Asia, India and the Far East. He explores the extraordinary and unpredictable rise of the Iargest single body of Christian devotion in the worId, the Roman Catholic Church, and reveaIs how confession was invented by monks in a remote isIand off the coast of lreland. As the series progresses it charts Eastern Orthodox Christianity's fight for survival after its glory days in the eastern Roman Empire and Iooks at the Reformation and the rise of Protestantism as weIl as the evangelical revivaI and the American-led rise of Pentecostalism. |
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