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  Title

  The lives of great Christians [videorecording (DVD)]

  Author

  Cook, William R. (William Robert), 1943-  

  Publisher:

  The Teaching Company,

  Pub date:

  [2007]

  Pages:

  4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) :

  ISBN:

  1598033344

  Item info:

  2 copies available at KETCHIKAN PUBLIC LIBRARY.
  

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    270.0922 LIVES	1	PL General Collection	PL DVD Nonfiction Shelves
    270.0922 LIVES STUDY GUIDE	1	PL General Collection	PL DVD Nonfiction Shelves

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  The lives of great Christians [videorecording (DVD)]
  Cook, William R. (William Robert), 1943-
  
  
  

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  Personal Author:

  Cook, William R. (William Robert), 1943-

  Title:

  The lives of great Christians [videorecording (DVD)] / William Cook.

  Publication info:

  Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2007]

  Physical description:

  4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (146 pages ; 19 cm).

  Series Statement:

  (Great courses. Religion & Theology.)

  Contents:

  pt. 1. disc 1. lectures 1-6. Introduction : What makes a great Christian? ; Paul and the first Christian missionaries ; The early martyrs ; St. Antony, the first monk ; The Desert Fathers and Mothers ; Augustine -- pt. 1. disc 2. lectures 7-12. St. Patrick and the conversion of Ireland ; St. Benedict and his rule ; Leo IX, Gregory VII, and Church reform ; Bernard of Clairvaux and monastic reform ; Francis of Assisi ; Clare of Assisi -- pt. 2. disc 3. lectures 13-18. Catherine of Siena ; Bernardino of Siena ; John Hus and the Hussites ; Thomas More ; Martin Luther ; John Wesley and the origins of Methodism -- pt. 2. disc 4. lectures 19-24. The monks of Mount Athos ; Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maximilian Kolbe ; Damien of Molokai and Teresa of Calcutta ; From slavery to Martin Luther King ; Gustavo Gutierrez and liberation theology ; Defining the Christian life.

  Performer:

  Lecturer, William Cook, State University of New York at Geneseo.

  Summary:

  Historian William Cook discusses the lives of prominent Christians through the ages.

  Held by:

  PL

  Subject term:

  Christian biography.

  Subject term:

  Church history.

  Subject term:

  Christian saints--Biography.

  Genre index term:

  Educational films.

  Added Entry-Corporate Name:

  Teaching Company.