GREAT WORLD RELIGIONS Christianity

The 12 lectures in this set, part of The Teaching Company's series on major religions, provide a compressed survey of the birth and development of the Christian religion, as well as its ideological and political history over the last two thousand years. Professor Johnson does a skillful job of distilling the potentially overwhelming detail of his subject into a presentation that hits the highlights and puts the major movements and themes of Christian history, theology, and practice into context. The course begins with the life of Christ and the early Church and continues through the theological and institutional development of the Middle Ages, the Reformation, and the modern world. M.G. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/ SEP 07]