History Of Christian Worship Part 2 The Body

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch - one of the world's leading historians - reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what it means to be a Christian.

This is a survey course designed to further stimulate your curiosity by providing glimpses of some of the pivotal events in the spread Christianity and sketches of great Christian figures who have significantly affected Christian history thereby shaping the history of the world

Part 6, The Embrace explores the inward worship practices of prayer and contemplation and the outward acts of worship found in service and ministry.

The True Christian History of America is a powerful documentary, showing the Bible-based Christian origins of the early American view of freedom, tracing the principles of liberty back to England and the great Reformation. For many tears, Americans have been taught in our schools and universities that the founding of our Republic was the result of the Enlightenment from France, or from the deists of that time. But is that truly the case? Did the Enlightenment first declare no taxation without representation? Or trial by jury? were they the champions of free speech, or of the press? And why did Samuel Adams declare that the "reign of political Protestantism" would commence, just before signing the Declaration of Independence?

Focuses on liturgy and helps the viewer understand the significance of time, place, structure from early times to the present. Describes the evolution of music, from chant to hymns and praise music.

Part 1, The Word explores how the written and spoken word consisting of scriptures, sermons and creeds have remembered and celebrated God's story throughout centuries of Christianity.

Part 2, The Body explores baptism and explains the history behind the various methods and traditions associated with the practice in Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox churches.

A six-part series that explores centuries of worship practices, as seen through the eyes of Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox churches. From scripture, sermons and creeds to baptism and the Eucharist, from art and music to drama and media, from prayer and contemplation to service and ministry, viewers will discover the significant people and events that have shaped history and learn how modern worship practices are rooted in the earliest foundations of the Christian faith.

For nearly 2,000 years, the Christian faith has remained at or near the center of Western moral debate and conceptions of human identity. It has both shaped history and responded to history, showing an extraordinary adaptability within greatly differing cultures. Discover the phenomenal story of Christianity's first 1,500 years, in all its remarkable diversity and complex dimensions.

Dave Stotts explores the amazing lives of the very first Christians. Beginning in Jerusalem and using the Book of Acts as a roadmap, Dave travels the Mediterranean region to share the people, places, and events that launched the Christian faith.