A History Of Christianity

Season

2009

7.8

Diarmaid MacCulloch, an Oxford history professor, travels to historical points of interest relevant to Christianity discussing the origins and spread of Christianity in a span of 6 episodes.

Episode List

S1 • E1

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.

Catholicism: The Unpredictable Rise of Rome

S1 • E2

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?

S1 • E3

Orthodoxy: From Empire to Empire

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

S1 • E4

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.

Protestantism: The Evangelical Explosion

S1 • E5

Protestantism: The Evangelical Explosion

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

S1 • E6

God in the Dock

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