Sacrifice, Redemption, and Miracles: The Story of Christianity: Crash Course Religions #9
Sacrifice, Redemption, and Miracles: The Story of Christianity: Crash Course Religions #9
Christianity isn’t just about Jesus. In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we explore the many faces of the world’s most popular religion—its denominations, commonalities, and complexities.
Introduction: Do Miracles Matter? 00:00
Demographics & Denominations 01:48
Pentecostalism 03:06
Christian Commonalities 05:19
Jesus 08:32
Review & Credits 11:04
John’s favorite joke is by Emo Phillips and used with love.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IRPhziWfx72dIlGC1xIuEPWqb_uwnumdtYnmmsR4jto/edit?usp=sharing
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Good stuff! ☦
But I do have a question, if Jesus "rose from the dead" for the sole purpose of ascending to heaven, how is his resurrection significantly different from just still being dead with more steps? What did his resurrection really accomplish, why do people put so much emphasis on it?
Would have been helpful to note that the spread and establishment of Christianity in Europe was tied to secular power and not the messages preached by Jesus.
"The last shal be first"? Yeah, he said that and it’sa powerful statement, but if giving one or two quotes that summarize Jesus’s teachings, why not "Love thy neighbor as thyself"?
I hope you do an episode about the Baha’i Faith.
Doing an amazing , objective job of explanation, and discovery 🙂 like the rando phone guy 🙂
Dear John, you did such a good job explaining.
I grew up United Methodist, in a small church which experienced the Pentecostal phenomenon in the late 70s. I often visited my grandmother’s Presbyterian church and later joined my grandfather’s and father’s Assembly of God. Married to a Serbian/Russian Orthodox, whose father advised living by “ the Words in red”, I am now in an affirming United Church of Christ.
Everything you said bears truth.
Perhaps loving God and loving others, (which includes ourselves), in all our diverse ways will help.
QUAKERISM MENTIONED RAHH!!! (great video btw)
There could be a whole crash course series of all the types of Christianity.
Such a good job!
Another wonderful video, learnt a bunch of new stuff
Plus the video strengthened my faith, a little
As always, thoughtful and compassionate. I’m afraid I do take issue with "8:53 Historians can vouch that Jesus of Nazareth was an apocalyptic prophet living in the Middle East who was executed by the Romans around 30 CE." Because, no, no they can’t.
Particularly that "executed by the Romans" bit. Romans, in spite of their record keeping on such things, kind of missed the whole drama offered by the gospels. You’d think Pliny the Elder would have written an entire book about it. All accounts of Jesus outside the Bible start showing up around 100CE, mostly in relation to his followers who clearly existed at that time.
Copt here! Mad respect for what you do <3
I just want to comment that 8:05 most Catholics revere the virgin Mary in part due to the reach of her apparitions.
I don’t think that calling our lady of Guadeloupe a indigenous version of Mary is fully accurate The catholic perspective is that that the people of Mexico are just venerating the same Mary of Jerusalem IN Mexico through the apparition.
Where there are or were catholic majority populations there is an apparition of our lady. This is the position of the church and therefore “most Catholics”
Good video!
Growing up Irish Catholic, seeing how religion influences culture so intensely is really interesting. I don’t believe in god, but if I say I’m an atheist I feel like I’m erasing a huge part of my culture and history. Great video as usual
who wants Crash Course Maths ?
I hope John covers atheism too
YES!!! THE QUAKER SHOUT OUT THAT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS WHOLE SERIES! WOOOOT!
haha love the shoutout to coptic orthodoxy!
I was expecting to hear a bit more about the largest Christian denomination in the world, and my own, Catholicism… But I was glad to see the Lord’s Prayer and Nicene Creed up there so I still feel like this video did a decent job of representing Christianity as I know it, as much as a 13 minute video trying to describe all of Christianity for a secular audience can.
Here’s my engagement comment
I appreciated this, John. Thank you.
Thanks
The best jokes are completely unexpected–that was good.
An excellent encapsulation- bravo!!
John – I want to thank you not only for your devotion to creating insightful & edifying content here on YouTube over the past decade-or-more I’ve been following you, not even only for your herein statement of faith in such an agreeable way – but for through your fiction empowering me as a Christian creative writer to engage with gnarly subject-matter in a holy & life-giving way even when those topics seem superficially secular. you have truly helped educate me in communication. bless you
John, you being sane yourself today, talking very humanly about religion is why I keep faith in good in people.
What is the name of the painting with the two ladies and a bible, one looking exasperated.
Never have I known someone who screamed Episcopalian in his mannerisms so much.
Shout out to Emo Philips for the classic joke
Didn’t mention the Seventh Day Adventist branch of Christianity and I wonder why…. Almost makes me wonder what information might have left out in the other videos…dang! I loved these too
The historical study of Jesus of Nazareth is a really interesting field of research. For anyone interested more in historical perspectives on Jesus as a millenarian, or apocalyptic, Jewish prophet, Dale C. Allison’s books “Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet,” “Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History,” and “The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History” are all very well researched, balanced, and engaging sources in this field.
As a Lutheran I hope to hear you talk about Martin Luther and the Protestant reformation!
Thanks for using CE as opposed to AD.
awesome sauce. i have never seen a better framing of christianity–so not jingoistic and the native american episode was refreshingly respectful
Jesus = Yeshua (Joshua)…It’s crazy how the letter "J" was invented in the 1500’s
The joke was hilarious. There’s such a huge variety of beliefs and practices within Christianity, and many people who profess Christianity aren’t aware.
Wow thank you
This crash course is hella underrated
I’ve been eagerly awaiting this video but the timing could not have been worse. I am a Christian — maybe I /was/ a Christian, I’m not sure anymore. I’ve been struggling to unify the love and compassion I was taught as a child and preached myself into my late 20’s with the hate and apathy I’ve experienced over the last decade. Today a lot of things have come to a head and I’m really struggling with this. Thanks for the video and the introspection. I hope we can all grow through this difficult experience but today has just been difficult to experience.
Thank you for leaving the comments on for this one.
I think a good follow up topic could be why there have been so many Christian denominations created in the USA, but maybe that’s too much detail for this crash course
I really like the way you present it, it’s clear and meaningful, thank you <3