| Description |
6 videodiscs (1080 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook. |
| Series |
Great courses. Religon & theology. Christianity |
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Great courses (DVD). Religion.
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| Note |
Closed-captioned. |
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Title from container. |
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"Course no. 6620." |
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Contains 36 lectures; 30 minutes per lecture. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Prophets of reform before Protestantism -- Luther and the dawn of Protestantism -- Zwingli, Calvin, and the reformed tradition -- The Anabaptist radicals -- The Catholic reformation -- The church militant in the Spanish Empire -- Disc 2. War and witchcraft in the Holy Roman Empire -- Puritans, kings, and theology in practice -- Religious dissent and the English Civil War -- Eastern Orthodoxy: from Byzantium to Russia -- Christians under Muslim rule -- The church and the scientific revolution -- Disc 3. The enlightenment quest for reasonable faith -- Pietist revival in Europe -- The first great awakening -- Religion and revolution in the 18th Century -- The second great awakening -- The Mormons: a true American faith -- Disc 4. Slave religion in the Americas -- Christian missions and moral reform -- The church's encounter with modern learning -- The social gospel -- Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism -- Apocalyptic faith in the 1800s and beyond -- Disc 5. The church and the Russian Revolution -- The rival gods of the cold war -- Rebellion and reform in Latin America -- Vatican II and global renewal -- Secularism and the death of God -- The gospel and global civil rights -- Disc 6. Culture wars and the Christian right -- Liberation theologies in Latin America -- Prophetic religion in modern Africa -- Chinese Christianity: missionaries to Mao -- Revival and repression in Korea -- The challenge of 21st-Century Christianity. |
| Performer |
Presenter: Professor Molly Worthen, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Subject |
Church history -- Videodiscs.
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Christianity -- Videodiscs.
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World history -- Videodiscs.
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Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
History of Christianity 2 |
| ISBN |
9781629974859 |
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1629974854 |
| Music No. |
ID6620A-01 Teaching Company (container) |
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