BBC - A History Of Christianity s01e04 - Reformation: The Individual Before God

A History Of Christianity s01e04 - Reformation: The Individual Before God

The Amish today are peaceable folk, but five centuries ago their ancestors were seen as some of the most dangerous people in Europe. They were radicals - Protestants - who tore apart the Catholic Church.

In the fourth part of the series, Diarmaid MacCulloch makes sense of the Reformation, and of how a faith based on obedience and authority gave birth to one based on individual conscience.

He shows how Martin Luther wrote hymns to teach people the message of the Bible, and how a tasty sausage became the rallying cry for Swiss Reformer Ulrich Zwingli to tear down statues of saints, allow married clergy and deny that communion bread and wine were the body and blood of Christ. 'Jesus ascended into heaven', declared Zwingli. 'He's sitting at the right hand of the Father, not on a table here in Zurich.

Airdate: November, 26, 2009 - BBC Four

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch - one of the world's leading historians - reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what it means to be a Christian.

Episodes 1,2,3,5 & 6 in this series can be found here:

e01 - The First Christianity - http://tracker.concen.org/torrents-details.php?id=11315

e02 - The Unpredictable Rise Of Rome - http://tracker.concen.org/torrents-details.php?id=11495

e03 - Orthodoxy: From Empire To Empire - http://tracker.concen.org/torrents-details.php?id=11695

e05 - Protestantism: The Evangelical Explosion - http://tracker.concen.org/torrents-details.php?id=13842

e06 - God In The Dock - http://tracker.concen.org/torrents-details.php?id=13850

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ntrqh

http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-24256/episode_list/

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