Diarmaid MacCulloch - What He Said: The Words of Jesus Christ http://whathesaid.com Making the words of Jesus Christ easy to read and explore Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:38:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 3,000 Years? http://whathesaid.com/2010/04/26/3000-years/ http://whathesaid.com/2010/04/26/3000-years/#respond Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:38:14 +0000 https://whathesaid.com/?p=436 Most people think Christianity is about 2,000 years old and that it began with the birth of Jesus. Diarmaid MacCulloch begs to differ. In his new book Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, MacCulloch talks about the origins of the Church and how they set the stage for the appearance of Christ. Yesterday, NPR ran […]

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Christianity: The First Three Thousand YearsYesterday, NPR ran an interview with MacCulloch that I found fascinating. It’s a wide-ranging discussion covering why some countries embrace Christianity and some don’t, why the Virgin Mary is more important to Catholics than to Protestants, and more.

I encourage you to click the link and give a listen. Hearing MacCulloch speak, I immediately thought of Robert Langdon in Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code. See if you get the same impression.

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