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A History of Christianity

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Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch - one of the world's leading historians - reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what it means to be a Christian

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A History of Christianity - Catholicism: The Unpredictable Rise of Rome

Diarmaid MacCulloch explores the rise of Roman Catholicism. How did a small Jewish sect become western Europe's established religion?

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A History of Christianity - God in the Dock

Diarmaid MacCulloch examines the concept of scepticism in Western Christianity and challenges the idea that faith has ebbed away in the face of science and reason.

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A History of Christianity - Orthodoxy - From Empire to Empire

Diarmaid MacCulloch explores Eastern Orthodox Christianity's fight for survival, having withstood threats from Islam, Catholicism and communism.

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A History of Christianity - Protestantism - The Evangelical Explosion

Diarmaid MacCulloch traces the growth of an exuberant expression of faith that has spread across the globe - Evangelical Protestantism.

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A History of Christianity - Reformation: The Individual Before God

Diarmaid MacCulloch looks at the Reformation and sees how a faith based on obedience and authority led to one based on individual conscience.

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A History of Christianity - The First Christianity

Diarmaid MacCulloch reveals the origins of Christianity and asks if it can survive in our secular society. He shows how it began east of Jerusalem and Rome.

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