BBC - A History of Christianity (2009) Part 3 Orthodoxy - From Empire to Empire

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what it means to be a Christian.

Part 3 Orthodoxy - From Empire to Empire

Diarmaid MacCulloch explores Eastern Orthodox Christianity, which flourishes in the Balkans and Russia but has had to fight for its survival. After its glory days in the Roman Empire, it stood in the path of Muslim expansion, suffered betrayal by crusading Catholics, was seized by the Russian tsars and faced near-extinction under communism. MacCulloch visits a collection of icons in the Sinai desert, a relic of the iconoclastic crisis in Istanbul and Ivan the Terrible's cathedral in Moscow.

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