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A History of Christianity

In this BBC documentary, A History of Christianity, Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, one of the world's leading historians, reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what it means to be a Christian. Along the way, he unearths surprising facts about the religion, including how it started and the development of ideas surrounding God and Jesus. Can looking at Christianity's past reveal clues about its future?

Show Info

Network: United Kingdom BBC Four (2009 - 2009)
Schedule: Thursdays at 21:00 (60 min)
Status: Ended
Show Type: Documentary
Genres: History
Episodes ordered: 6 episodes

Official site: www.bbc.co.uk

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Previous Episode

God in the Dock

Episode 1x06; Dec 10, 2009

Diarmaid MacCulloch's own life story makes him a symbol of a distinctive feature about Western Christianity - scepticism, a tendency to doubt which has transformed both Western culture and Christianity. In the final programme in the series he asks wh

Previous Episodes

Episode NameAirdateTrailer
1x06: God in the DockDec 10, 2009
1x05: Protestantism: The Evangelical ExplosionDec 4, 2009
1x04: Reformation: The Individual Before GodNov 26, 2009
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