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By the early 1500's, Western Europe was a frenzy of energy, invention, commerce and faith. It was about to explode in so many different directions with such profound effect that historians would call the century the "fulcrum of the millennium". It witnessed an entirely new human experience of Jesus, first in the rise of the Protestants and then in the reform of the Catholics. It generated a burst of art, architecture and music. It also degenerated into bitter and bloody conflict. This was the age that the continent, which had been so profoundly shaped by the experience of Jesus, would now radically alter that image. Narrator: Joseph Campanella |
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As the year 1000 neared, Russia was scarcely more than vast wilderness with a few settlements. Yet when the Prince of Kiev embraced Eastern Christianity, he tied the fates of both the Orthodox faith and Russia together in a way that continues to this very day. The builders of the nation were also keepers of the faith. In the thousand years of its history, the nation and its people would suffer terribly. Their land was harsh, cold and deeply vulnerable, affording no protection from the Asians to the south or the Europeans from the West. Not surprisingly the Jesus Russians worship is the image of a suffering servant. One who endured great hardship without complaint. As a result, Easter is the core of the Russian faith--a time of rebirth, renewal and hope. This is the very heart and soul of a people whose experience is defined by suffering and bloodshed from the very beginning. To order this program click here: Questar1.com |
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