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 i... Full description
- 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.