01539nam a2200181 a 4500 20220920020632.0 140123s19uu xx 00 eng d Catholicism [videorecording] / : Gillian Banclroft and Sian Salt, producers and directos. the unpredictable rise of Rome / [S.l] : BBC, c1996. 1 videodisc (58 min.) A history of christianity 27866 Diarmaid MacCulloch's grandfather was a devout pillar of the local Angelican church and felt that any dabbling in Catholicism was liable to pollute the English way of life. But now his grandfather isn't around to stop him exploring the extraordinary and to Rome - that's more than half of all Chrsitians on the planet. But how did a small Jewish sect from the backwoods of 1st century Palestine, which preached humility and the virtue of poverty, become the established religion of Western Europe-wealthy, powerful and expecting unfailing obedience from the faithful? Amongst the surprising revelations, MacCulloch tells us how confession was invented by monks in a remote island off the coast of Ireland, and how the Crusades gave Britain the university system. Above all, it's a story of what can be achieved when you have friends in high places. Church history. 27867 Christianity. 27868 Bancloft, Gillian 27869 Salt, Sian 27870 Magnavision OLOPSC 266.00Php 86871 86871 0 0 lcc 0 0 HSLRC HSLRC AV 2022-09-20 1 BR 150 C363 1996 DVD0457HS 2023-11-28 00:00:00 2022-09-20 VM