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Christianity

Historical Context of the Judean World

John the Baptizer

Jesus

Historicity of Jesus
Depictions of Jesus
Jesus the Jew
Understanding Jesus in Historical Context
Jesus' Final Week, Passion, & Crucifixion

Early Church:  James the Just

Early Church:  Thomas Judas Didymas

Early Church:  Peter & John

Early Church:  Mary the Mother of Jesus

Early Church:  Mary Magdalene

Early Church:  Paul

Early Christianity's Relationship to & Split from Judaism

Church Fathers & Their Writings

Early Varieties of Christianity

("Heresies," Schisms, & Establishment of "Orthodoxy")

From Sect to World Religion

Christology & Trinity

Church History:  From Its Beginning to the Fall of the Roman Empire

Church History:  From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Protestant Reformation

"Oriental" Christianianities:  Ancient Limbs Beyond the 3 Branches

The Great Schism between Catholicism & Orthodoxy

Differences & Similarities Between Orthodoxy & Catholicism

The Papacy

Varieties Within Catholicism

Catholic Practice

The Protestant Reformation

Differences & Similarities Between Catholicism & Protestantism

Christianity in Modernity

Sacraments

Theology of Atonement

Salvation

The Problem of Suffering & Evil:
Theodicy, Apocalypticism, & Afterlife

Kingdom of God, End Times, Apocalypticism, Resurrection, New Creation, & Interim Ethics (already/ not yet)

The Rapture

The Spiritual World & Its Beings

Theosis, Deification, Divinization, Christification & Sanctification

The Harrowing of Hell

Born Again

Glossolalia

Christian Calendar & Time

Christian Holidays & Traditions

Christmas
Easter
Calculating Date of Easter up to 25:30)
Other Christian Holidays

Christianity & the Arts

Pentecostal & Charismatic Movements

Contemporary Varieties of Christianity & Comparisons

Note:  The videos in this section refer mostly to varieties of Protestant denominations.  For more on varieties within/between other branches of Christianity, see other sections on this page.

Denominational Family Tree

Note:  Although this series is quite extensive, some small denominations and complicated situations have not been included in it, so it is not the full story.

Christian Mysticism & Spirituality

Progressive Christianity

Liberation Theology in Christianity

Process Theology in Christianity

Agnostic Christians

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