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Jesus the Jew

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Rome

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Dark Ages

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Crusades

60 min

Reformation

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Dark Continents

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God and the Scientists

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The Future of Christianity

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Christianity: A History

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Dark Ages

Season 1 · Episode 3 · Jan 25, 2009

Presented by leading theologian Robert Beckford, Dark Ages explores how warring pagan tribes in Britain became one nation under a single religion - Christianity. In this extraordinary story, which begins with the fall of the Roman Empire 400 years after the birth of Jesus, we chart the precarious survival of Christianity in the Celtic West and Ireland following a struggle for souls between three different religious traditions: the warrior pagan religion of the Anglo-Saxons, Celtic Christianity and a resurgent Roman Christianity, which arrived with St Augustine in 597. With the aid of noted experts in the field, Robert Beckford reveals how these conflicts were resolved and why Christianity was a vital element in the eighth century creation of an alternative identity for the English peoples. This was a spectacular cultural achievement with a revolutionary agenda, which became, in the Kingdom of King Alfred, the basis of the nation we live in today.

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Christianity: A History

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20091h

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Dark Ages

Season 1 · Episode 3 · Jan 25, 2009

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