The Episcopal Church of the Ascension - Hickory, North Carolina
Thursday Study Group -- A History of Christianity with Diarmaid MacCulloch
Thu, Oct 20
|Hickory
Each Thursday through November 17th we will watch a one-hour episode of a documentary series on church history from Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch and follow it with 30 minutes of discussion.
Time & Location
Oct 20, 2022, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Hickory, 726 1st Ave NW, Hickory, NC 28601, USA
About the Event
Each Thursday through November 17th we will watch a one-hour episode of a documentary series on church history from Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch and follow it with 30 minutes of discussion.Â
Dr. MacCulloch is a world-renowned Christian Historian and is also an Anglican. His book, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years is standard reading for seminarians and theologians, as well as a must-have reference text for anyone interested in church history. The documentary series is loosely based on this book.
- Oct. 13th: The First Christianity
- Oct. 20th: Catholicism, The Unpredictable Rise of Rome
- Oct. 27th: Orthodoxy, From Empire to Empire
- Nov. 3rd: Reformation – The Individual Before God
- Nov. 10th: Protestantism – The Evangelical Explosion
- Nov. 17th: God in the Dock