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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 as...sociated with conservative politics, but the whole story is not what you might expect. It's easily forgotten that the Evangelical explosion has been driven by a concern for social justice and the claim that you could stand in a direct emotional relationship with God. It allowed the Protestant faith to burst its boundaries from its homeland in Europe. In America, its preachers marketed Christianity with all the flair and swashbuckling enterprise of American commerce. In Africa it converted much of the continent by adapting to local traditions, and now it's expanding into Asia. But is Korean Pentecostalism and its message of prosperity in the here and now an adaptation too far?
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 as...sociated with conservative politics, but the whole story is not what you might expect. It's easily forgotten that the Evangelical explosion has been driven by a concern for social justice and the claim that you could stand in a direct emotional relationship with God. It allowed the Protestant faith to burst its boundaries from its homeland in Europe. In America, its preachers marketed Christianity with all the flair and swashbuckling enterprise of American commerce. In Africa it converted much of the continent by adapting to local traditions, and now it's expanding into Asia. But is Korean Pentecostalism and its message of prosperity in the here and now an adaptation too far?
| Series: | A history of Christianity |
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| First transmission date: | 03-12-2009 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC4 |
| Published: | 2009 |
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| Duration: | 00:59:00 |
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| Producer: | Catherine McCarthy |
| Presenter: | Diarmid MacCulloch |
| Contributors: | Theresa Appah; Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu; Robert Baize; David Yonggi Cho; David Connor; Colin Cradock; Dennis Dickerson; Jim Healy; Frank Jarboe; Peter Kabala; Sang Keun Kim; Rudiger Kroger; David Lawrence; Diarmaid MacCulloch; Ken Minkema; Bob Schwartz; Annalena Wendland; Karl Friedrich Winter |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/christianity/index.html |
| Subject terms: | Christianity; Church history |
| Production number: | NMGX005W |
| Videofinder number: | 81294 |
| Available to public: | no |
