Great world religions. Christianity

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Title:

Great world religions. Christianity

Alternate title:

Christianity

Author:

Johnson, Luke Timothy, author.

Teaching Company.

Series:

Great courses.

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.

General Note:

Compact disc.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Contents:

Christianity among world religions -- Birth and expansion -- Second century and self-definition -- Christian story -- What Christians believe -- Church and sacraments -- Moral teaching -- Radical edge -- Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant -- Christianity and politics -- Christianity and culture -- Tensions and possibilities.

Physical Description:

6 sound discs (ca. 360 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (62 p. ; 22 cm.)

Genre:

Lectures.

Corporate Subject:

Catholic Church.

Orthodox Eastern Church.

Subject Term:

Christianity.

Catholicism.

Orthodox (Orthodox Eastern Church)

Protestant churches.

Protestantism.

Church history -- Early church, ca. 30-600.

Theology, Doctrinal -- History.

Added Corporate Author:

Teaching Company.

Publisher:

Teaching Co.,

Publication Date:

2003

ISBN:

9781565857872

Publication Information:

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., p2003.

Call Number:

GC 230 JOHNSON

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Christianity is the world's largest religion, with more than two billion members. But in addition to being vast and popular, it is extremely complex and often highly contradictory. Professor Luke Timothy Johnson explains why the central figures, elements, and creeds of Christianity are hard to fathom yet give Christianity its distinctive character.