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A History of Christianity

Episode 6: God in the Dock

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

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. Show more

A History of Christianity

Episode 1: The First Christianity

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

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. Show more

A History of Christianity

Episode 3: Orthodoxy - From Empire to Empire

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

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

A History of Christianity

Protestantism - The Evangelical Explosion

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

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

A History of Christianity

Episode 4: Reformation: The Individual Before God

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

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

A History of Christianity

Episode 2: Catholicism: The Unpredictable Rise of Rome

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

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