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In Our Time
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Melvyn Bragg and guests investigate the history of ideas. Thursday 9.00-9.45am, repeated 9.30pm.
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The Siege of Münster - Apocalypse 1535
St Thomas Aquinas - his profound influence on Western faith and philosophy
The Sunni-Shia Split: after Muhammad
St Paul - the first Christian
Miracles - will they never cease?
The Arab Conquests - the 7th century new world order
The Dissolution of the Monasteries - religion in ruins
The Fisher King - the wound that does not heal
The Nicene Creed - when Christ became God
Guilt - what is it good for?
St Hilda - the life and times of the Abbess of Whitby
The Jesuits - the school masters of Europe
Hell - its representation through the ages
The Diet of Worms - Luther's stand against the Church
The Spanish Inquisition - one of the most barbaric episodes in European history
The Oxford Movement - Anglicans and Catholics in the 19th century
Heaven - a journey through the afterlife
Greyfriars and Blackfriars - philosophy, evangelism and fund-raising in the 13th century Church
Angels - how they got their wings
The Venerable Bede - the father of English history
Zoroastrianism - was the religion of the Persian Empire the first monotheism?
Witchcraft - Reformation Europe turned upon itself
Toleration - from medieval intolerance to religious freedom
The Fall - how Adam and Eve affect us all
The Norse Gods - the great myths of pagan Europe
The Devil - a brief biography
St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
- slaughter in Paris.
The Schism
- between East and West in Christianity.
The Apocalypse
- was it a revelation?
Redemption
- the concept of salvation
The Lindisfarne Gospels
- unifying Christianity in Britain
Cordoba and Muslim Spain
- a culture of tolerance?
Blood
- its religious, medical and moral significance
The Holy Grail
- just a medieval myth?
The Soul
- the key to our individuality as humans?
Budhhism
- why has it captured the spirit of our age?
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