Great world religions. Christianity
(DVD)

"Course no. 6101."

Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.

Includes bibliographical references (in guidebook).

Producer/editor, Jaimée M. Aigret ; content supervisor, Maggie Lyons ; director, Tom Dunton.

Twelve lectures of thirty minutes each by Luke Timothy Johnson, Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Emory University.

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 its distinctive character. Covers topics such as Christianity's birth and expansion across the Mediterranean world, the development of its doctrine, its assertion that Jesus was both a man and God, its transformation upon becoming Rome's imperial religion, its many and deep connections to Western culture, and the tensions in Christianity today.

DVD.