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A History of Christianity is a six-part British television series originally broadcast on BBC Four in 2009. The series was presented by the English ecclesiastical historian Diarmaid MacCulloch , Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford .
Rome: Michael Portillo investigates the political compromises that Christianity was forced to make when the Roman Empire adopted it as its official religion. Dark Ages: Theologian Robert Beckford looks at the impact Christianity has had on Britain and argues that the sixth-century conversion was the most important event in British history.
A History of the Methodist Church in Great Britain (3 vol. Wipf & Stock, 2017). online; Gilley, Sheridan, and W. J. Sheils. A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present (1994) 608pp excerpt and text search; Hastings, Adrian. A History of English Christianity: 1920–1985 (1986) 720pp a major ...
Sea of Faith is a six-part documentary television series, presented on BBC television in 1984 by Don Cupitt.The programme dealt with the history of Christianity in the modern world, focussing especially on how Christianity has responded to challenges such as scientific advances, political atheism and secularisation in general.
The series was described by Ben Lawrence at the Telegraph as a "curiously underplayed affair, with only a hyperbolic voice-over occasionally adding drama". [2] Darrell Hartman at The Daily Beast wrote that it was "well worth watching", in an article also describing the conflicts between Tim Jarvis and the documentary film crew.
More Christian missionaries arrived from Rome and by the time of Bede who recorded there were five languages in the land; British (Welsh), Scottish (Irish), Pictish, Latin and English. [2] The village and people of Long Melford , in Suffolk , and their dig of nearly forty test pits, was featured during the first four episodes.
The series received praise from commentators such as Andrew Billen of the New Statesman for focussing on "history against spirituality every time". [23] However, Billen also contrasted the show with The Lives of Jesus, a similar series from December 1996, remarking that it was flash and filmic, whereas The Lives of Jesus had been far more ...
The Dark Ages: An Age of Light is a four-part documentary television series written, directed, and presented by the British art critic Waldemar Januszczak looking at the art and architecture of the so-called Dark Ages (i.e. Early Middle Ages) that shows it to be an era with advancements contrary to popular perceptions of the period.