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.
When Diarmaid MacCulloch was a small boy, his parents used to drive him round historic churches. Little did they know that they had created a monster, with the history of the Christian Church becoming his life's work.
In a series sweeping across four continents, Professor MacCulloch goes in search of Christianity's forgotten origins. He overturns the familiar story that it all began when the apostle Paul took Christianity from Jerusalem to Rome. Instead, he shows that the true origins of Christianity lie further east, and that at one point it was poised to triumph in Asia, maybe even in China.
The headquarters of Christianity might well have been Baghdad not Rome, and if that had happened then western Christianity would have been very different.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Diarmaid MacCulloch |
Producer | Gillian Bancroft |
Director | Gillian Bancroft |
Executive Producer | Jean-Claude Bragard |
Broadcasts
- Thu 5 Nov 2009 21:00
- Thu 5 Nov 2009 22:0091热爆 HD
- Fri 6 Nov 2009 00:30
- Fri 6 Nov 2009 03:00
- Sun 8 Nov 2009 19:00
- Sat 16 Jan 2010 18:0091热爆 Two except Scotland
- Sat 3 Apr 2010 23:45
- Sun 24 Apr 2011 19:00
- Mon 25 Apr 2011 03:20
- Sun 11 Nov 2018 19:00
- Mon 12 Nov 2018 02:00