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A History of Christianity

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.

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Diarmaid MacCulloch
Self - Presenter
Keith Moore
Self - Royal Society Librarian and Archivist
Rudolf Weckerling
Self - Confessing Church

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

The First Christianity

60 mins

Diarmaid MacCulloch goes in search of Christianity's forgotten origins, overturning 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, and perhaps even in China.

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