Christianity: A History

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Series 1 Episode 8 The Future of Christianity (49 mins)

7PM Sunday 01 Mar 2009 Channel 4

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    Series 1 Episode 8 The Future of Christianity (49 mins)

    First Broadcast: 7PM Sunday 01 Mar 2009 Channel 4

    Leading British lawyer and committed Catholic Cherie Blair investigates Christianity over the last 100 years and explores its future prospects.

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    Contains images of war and genocide which some viewers may find distressing

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    Series 1 Episode 7 God and the Scientists (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Sunday 22 Feb 2009 Channel 4

    For over fifteen hundred years, Christians saw the Bible as the primary source of knowledge, but in the seventeenth Century the beginnings of a scientific revolution began to challenge the…

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    Series 1 Episode 6 Dark Continents (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Sunday 15 Feb 2009 Channel 4

    This programme reveals how Christianity became the world's largest religion despite, rather than because of, Western missionary zeal.

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    Series 1 Episode 5 Reformation (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Sunday 08 Feb 2009 Channel 4

    Ann Widdecombe MP takes a personal look at the reformation, a moment in time she describes as one of the saddest periods in Christian History.
    Nearly five centuries ago, the Reformation…

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    Series 1 Episode 4 Crusades (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Sunday 01 Feb 2009 Channel 4

    Acclaimed war correspondent Rageh Omaar examines the effect the Crusades have on the world today.

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    Series 1 Episode 3 Dark Ages (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Sunday 25 Jan 2009 Channel 4

    Theologian Robert Beckford takes a personal journey into the dark ages, asking if this period is the most misunderstood and underrated moment in Britain's history. He explores how warring…

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    Series 1 Episode 2 Rome (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Sunday 18 Jan 2009 Channel 4

    Michael Portillo investigates the legacy of the Roman Emperor Constantine - the man who transformed Christianity from a clandestine handful of followers of Jesus Christ into one of the…

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    Series 1 Episode 1 Jesus the Jew (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Sunday 11 Jan 2009 Channel 4

    Novelist Howard Jacobson kicks off the series with his personal take on Jesus the Jew.

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