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When he was a small boy Diarmaid MacCulloch's parents used to drive him round historic churches. Little did they know that they had created a monster - the history of the Christian Church became hi...s life's work. Now, no other subject can rival its scale and drama. In the first of a six part series sweeping across four continents, Professor MacCulloch goes in search of Christianity's forgotten origins. He overturns 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 east, and that at one point it was poised to triumph in Asia, maybe even in China. The headquarters of Christianity may well have been Baghdad not Rome. And if that had happened Western Christianity would have been very different.
When he was a small boy Diarmaid MacCulloch's parents used to drive him round historic churches. Little did they know that they had created a monster - the history of the Christian Church became hi...s life's work. Now, no other subject can rival its scale and drama. In the first of a six part series sweeping across four continents, Professor MacCulloch goes in search of Christianity's forgotten origins. He overturns 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 east, and that at one point it was poised to triumph in Asia, maybe even in China. The headquarters of Christianity may well have been Baghdad not Rome. And if that had happened Western Christianity would have been very different.
| Series: | A history of Christianity |
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| First transmission date: | 05-11-2009 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC4 |
| Published: | 2009 |
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| Duration: | 00:59:01 |
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| Producer: | Catherine McCarthy |
| Presenter: | Diarmid MacCulloch |
| Contributors: | Father Fady Abdulahad; Mouhammad Habash; Abdullah Hadjar; Hammash Hammash; Sami Houssni; Father Jean Kawak; Li'an; Diarmaid MacCulloch; Martin Palmer; Father Joseph Shabo; Sermola Toro |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/christianity/index.html |
| Subject terms: | Christianity; Church history |
| Production number: | NMGX001T |
| Videofinder number: | 81290 |
| Available to public: | no |
