Title
Great world religions Christianity [videorecording] / Luke Timothy Johnson.
Edition
2nd ed.
ISBN
1565857887
9781565857889
Publication Details
Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., p2003.
Language
English
Description
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 77 p. : 19 cm.)
Call Number
BR121.3 .J64 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification
230
Distributor No.
6101 Teaching Company
ID6101A-01 Teaching Company
PB6101A Teaching Compnay
Summary
Provides an overview of Christianity, the world's largest religion, and discusses why, in addition to being vast and popular, it is also extremely complex and often highly contradictory. Explains why the central figures, elements, and creeds of Christianity are hard to fathom yet give Christianity its distinctive character. Covers topics such as Christianity's birth and expansion across the Mediterranean world, the development of its doctrine, its assertion that Jesus was both a man and God, its transformation upon becoming Rome's imperial religion, its many and deep connections to Western culture, and the tensions in Christianity today.
Note
Course Number 6101: 12 lectures (30 minutes/lecture).
Lecturer: Luke Timothy Johnson, Emory Univ.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
System Details Note
DVD, region 1.
Holdings
Suppl.
Series
Great courses (DVD)
lecture 1. Christianity among world religions
lecture 2. Birth and expansion
lecture 3. Second century and self-definition
lecture 4. The Christian story
lecture 5. What Christians believe
lecture 6. The church and sacraments
lecture 7. Moral teaching
lecture 8. The radical edge
lecture 9. Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant
lecture 10. Christianity and politics
lecture 11. Christianity and culture
lecture 12. Tensions and possibilities.