Documentary

Christianity: A History

Creating Christianity: A History is an eight-part television series produced in 2009 by Pioneer Productions for Channel 4.The episodes, each with a different presenter, cover a range of personal views on issues from the religion's inception in Palestine and its progression in the Roman empire, the Crusades, English Reformation, colonial dissemination and the Age of Enlightenment, to the impacts of science and 21st-century views.Not to be confused with the BBC six-part series, A History of Christianity.)

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Status

Returning Series

Original Name

Christianity: A History

First Air Date

January 11, 2009

Last Air Date

February 22, 2009

Seasons

1

Episodes

8

Language

English

Production Companies

Networks

Channel 4

S01E07

God and the Scientists

For over fifteen hundred years, Christians saw the bible as the primary source of knowledge, but in the seventeenth Century the beginnings of a scientific revolution began to challenge the Christian view of the world. Eminent scientist Colin Blakemore interviews esteemed scholars and Churchmen in order to understand how Science has transformed Christianity over the last four centuries. He shows how scientists born of the Enlightenment realised that the laws of the universe were there to be discovered, not read about in the Bible. He argues that Science is the biggest challenge Christianity has ever had to face, and that it will eventually make religion unnecessary.

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