• 1977
The Christians

Summary The Christians is a meticulously constructed, lavishly produced series that describes the experiences and actions of Christians from the birth of Christ, through the Roman Empire, the Renaissance and Lutheran reform to modern times. View more details

  • 1977

The Christians

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Bamber Gascoigne

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Aug 1, 1977

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) Granada Television

Summary The Christians is a meticulously constructed, lavishly produced series that describes the experiences and actions of Christians from the birth of Christ, through the Roman Empire, the Renaissance and Lutheran reform to modern times. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Aug 1, 1977

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) Granada Television

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Aug 01, 1977
A Peculiar People
Beginning with the followers of an itinerant preacher in a backwater of the Roman Empire, Christianity became Rome's religion with astonishing speed.
Episode 2 • Aug 08, 1977
The Christian Empire
Between the 3rd and 6th centuries CE, Christianity evinced two contrasting impulses that persist to this day: worldliness and asceticism.
Episode 3 • Aug 15, 1977
The Birth of Europe
After waves of barbarians swept through the Roman Empire, Charlemagne struck a deal with Pope Leo III to establish both religious and political stability.
Episode 4 • Aug 22, 1977
Faith and Fear
Constantly living in the shadow of death, medieval Christians turned to relics to temper God's judgment and built mighty cathedrals to glorify Him.
Episode 5 • Aug 29, 1977
People of the Book
Jews, Christians, and Muslims hold sacred not only some of the same scriptures, but also some of the same sites, which they've fought over for centuries.
Episode 6 • Sep 05, 1977
Princes and Prelates
Leading up to the Renaissance, as many as three popes simultaneously claimed spiritual and political authority--while dissidents decried their corruption.
Episode 7 • Sep 12, 1977
Protest and Reform
Martin Luther's reformist ideas threatened to wreak theological and political havoc, but soon his acolytes had exported Protestant concepts all over Europe.
Episode 8 • Sep 19, 1977
The Conquest of Souls
In the 16th century, as Spain expanded Christianity into the New World, the Catholic Church countered the Reformation with its elite "shock troops," the Jesuits.
Episode 9 • Sep 26, 1977
In Search of Tolerance
Many Protestants persecuted breakaway sects as vigorously as the Catholic Church has attacked heretics. But when some victims sought refuge in America, they too turned tyrannical.
Episode 10 • Oct 03, 1977
Politeness and Enthusiasm
George Whitefield and John Wesley injected emotion into a faith that had become rational, genteel, and--for too many Christians--boring and irrelevant.
Episode 11 • Oct 10, 1977
Missions Abroad
By the 19th century, Europe had begun to export its own brand of commerce and Christianity to Africa, while industrialized urban poverty choked religion at home.
Episode 12 • Oct 17, 1977
The Roots of Disbelief
It took the Vatican two centuries to accept a heliocentric universe. But science proved only one threat to faith, and change often sparked a fundamentalist reaction.
Episode 13 • Oct 24, 1977
The Godless State?
Ironically, Christianity survived--even thrived--in Communist Russia and Poland, while Communism exerted itself in nominally Catholic Italy.
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