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Diarmaid MacCulloch's a history of Christianity: Episode 3. Orthodoxy : from empire to empire

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Abstract
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 Christ, and everywhere is a symbol of a fierce-looking bird - the double-headed eagle. What story is this ancient drama trying to tell us? In his third journey into the History of Christianity, Diarmaid MacCulloch charts Orthodoxy's extraordinary fight for survival. After its glory days in the Eastern Roman Empire, it stood right in the path of Muslim expansion, suffered betrayal by crusading Catholics, was seized by the Russian Tsars and faced near-extinction under Soviet Communism. MacCulloch visits the greatest collection of early icons in the Sinai desert, a surviving relic of the iconoclastic crisis in Istanbul and Ivan the Terrible's Cathedral in Moscow to discover the secret of its endurance.
Collection
Ambrose Video Publishing Collection
Subject
Church history, Communism and Christianity--Orthodox Eastern Church--History, Orthodox Eastern Church--Slavic countries--History, Orthodox Eastern Church--Russia--History, Orthodox Eastern Church--Greece--History, Orthodox (Orthodox Eastern Church)
Series
Diarmaid MacCulloch's a history of Christianity
Contributors
MacCulloch, Diarmaid (Author of screenplay, etc.), Bancroft, Gillian (Producer), Salt, Siân (Producer), Ambrose Video Publishing (Distributor), Open University (Producer), Jerusalem Productions (Producer), British Broadcasting Corporation (Producer), BBC Worldwide Ltd (Producer)
Duration
00:59:29 (HH:MM:SS)
Language:
English
Target or Intended Audience
Ancient history students, Theology students and theologians
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