Too close to heaven: the history of gospel music. Pt. 3 of 3
Deeply rooted in African rhythms, the first gospel music, as sung on southern plantations, expressed the collective sorrow of American slaves, and the history of their diaspora. Using narration and thrilling performance footage, these programs trace...
Diarmaid MacCulloch's a history of Christianity: Episode 4. Reformation : the individual before God
The Amish today are peaceable folk, but five centuries ago their ancestors were seen as some of the most dangerous people in Europe. They were radicals - Protestants - who tore apart the Catholic Church. In the fourth part of his History of Christia...
Diarmaid MacCulloch's a history of Christianity: Episode 3. Orthodoxy : from empire to empire
Today, Eastern Orthodox Christianity flourishes in the Balkans and Russia with over 150 million members worldwide. It's quite unlike Catholicism or Protestantism: worship is carefully choreographed, icons pull the faithful into a mystical union with...
Too close to heaven: the history of gospel music. Pt. 1 of 3
Deeply rooted in African rhythms, the first gospel music, as sung on southern plantations, expressed the collective sorrow of American slaves, and the history of their diaspora. Using narration and thrilling performance footage, these programs trace...
Diarmaid MacCulloch's a history of Christianity: Episode 6. God in the dock
Diarmaid MacCulloch's own life story makes him a symbol of a distinctive feature about Western Christianity - skepticism, a tendency to doubt which has transformed Western culture and transformed Christianity. In the last program in the series he as...
Diarmaid MacCulloch's a history of Christianity: Episode 5. Protestantism : the evangelical explosion
In his fifth part of A History of Christianity, Diarmaid MacCulloch traces the growth of an exuberant expression of faith that has spread across the globe - Evangelical Protestantism. Today, it's associated with conservative politics, but the whole ...
Diarmaid MacCulloch's a history of Christianity: Episode 1. The first Christianity
When he was a small boy Diarmaid MacCulloch's parents used to drive him round historic churches. Little did they know that they had created a monster - the history of the Christian Church became his life's work. Now, no other subject can rival its s...
Diarmaid MacCulloch's a history of Christianity: Episode 2. Catholicism : the unpredictable rise of Rome
Diarmaid MacCulloch's grandfather was a devout pillar of the local Anglican church and felt that any dabbling in
Catholicism was liable to pollute the English way of life. But now his grandfather isn't around to stop him from exploring the extraordi...
Too close to heaven: the history of gospel music. Pt. 2 of 3
Deeply rooted in African rhythms, the first gospel music, as sung on southern plantations, expressed the collective sorrow of American slaves, and the history of their diaspora. Using narration and thrilling performance footage, these programs trace...