Presented by Diarmaid MacCulloch – one of the world's leading historians and Professor of History of the Church and Fellow at St Cross College Oxford – A History Of Christianity will reveal the true origins of Christianity and delve into what it means to be a Christian..
Ep1: MacCulloch goes in search of Christianity's forgotten origins in the east, where at one point it was poised to triumph in Asia, maybe even in China.
Ep2:How the small Jewish sect from the backwoods of 1st century Palestine, which preached humility and the virtue of poverty, become the established religion of western Europe.
Ep3: After its glory days in the eastern Roman Empire, Orthodoxy 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.
Ep4:How The Reformation, turned a faith based on obedience and authority in to one based on individual conscience.
Ep5: Today, Evangelical Protestantism is associated with conservative politics, but was driven by a concern for social justice and the claim that one could stand in a direct emotional relationship with God.
Ep6:Despite the attacks of Newton, Voltaire, the French Revolutionaries and Darwin, Christianity has shown a remarkable resilience.