Provides an overview of Christianity, the world's largest religion, and discusses why, in addition to being vast and popular, it is also extremely complex and often highly contradictory.

Compact disc.

Christianity among world religions --Birth and expansion -- Second century and self-definition -- Christian story -- What Christians believe -- Church and sacraments -- Moral teaching -- Radical edge -- Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant -- Christianity and politics -- Christianity and culture -- Tensions and possibilities.