牛津大学著名的历史学教授迪尔梅德.麦克库洛赫与BBC英国广播公司联手，精心打造这部优秀的纪录片。他将带我们去基督教古迹的现场鉴证历史，去访问知名的学者和宗教人士寻知问道，在浩瀚的历史长河里品味文明的足迹。透过这个系列的节目您将增加对基督教和西方文明的了解。 基督教在人类历史上和当代都有着广泛的影响、和佛教、伊斯兰教并称为世界三大宗教。全球估计现在共有15亿至21亿的人信仰基督教,占世界总人口25%-30%.最早期的基督教信仰仅从凤毛麟角的几个信徒萌芽，何以成长到可以影响人类的文明发展和历史进程的呢？ 这千年的基督教历史之问，将由Diarmaid MacCulloch 迪尔梅德.麦克库洛赫教授在本系列节目中不懈地探讨。

Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society. Diarmaid MacCulloch ranges from Palestine in the first century to India in the third, from Damascus to China in the seventh century and from San Francisco to Korea in the twentieth. He is one of the most widely travelled of Christian historians and conveys a sense of place as arrestingly as he does the power of ideas. He presents the development of Christian history differently from any of his predecessors. He shows how, after a semblance of unity in its earliest centuries, the Christian church divided during the next 1400 years into three increasingly distanced parts, of which the western Church was by no means always the most important: he observes that at the end of the first eight centuries of Christian history, Baghdad might have seemed a more likely capital for worldwide Christianity than Rome. This is the first truly global history of Christianity.