In 2019, six documentary film producers
were tasked with researching and filming six hour-long segments on
the spread of Christianity across the world. The documentaries were
pulled together by a script writer and narrated by actor Dennis
Haysbert. Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) began airing the monthly
episodes called “INEXPLICABLE: How Christianity Spread to the Ends
of the Earth” in early 2020, but stopped at the beginning of the
pandemic. They restarted the series, on a weekly basis, in January
2021.
Segment Four, the spread of Christianity in North
America, was created by filmmaker James Langteaux, and airs Thursday,
February 4, at 8:00 p.m. ET, 7:00 CT, 6:00 PT, and 5:00 PT, on
TBN, which is a worldwide network, so it should be available to
viewers of cable, satellite, and broadcast channels. (It may be
available online after a few days.) The series combines interviews
with experts and dramatic recreations of people and events.
Producer
Langteaux contacted Christy K Robinson, author of two popular
historical research blogs and four historical books that center on
early colonial New England religious leaders, and asked her to speak
“passionately” about Anne Marbury Hutchinson and her
“bold, heroic life,” as he put it. Though he filmed Robinson for
several hours, she doesn't expect to be onscreen more than a few
seconds or minutes at the beginning of the episode.
She says,
“I hope that my synopsis on Anne Hutchinson and Mary Barrett
Dyer, the Quaker martyr who died for religious liberty in 1660,
came in handy to the script writer. Both women were pioneers of
religious and civil liberties in the 1630s through 1650s, almost 400
years before their time—and their struggle continues to this
day.”
Robinson's interest in Anne Hutchinson began in the
1980s, when a Bible teacher talked about Antinomianism, which many
historians have ascribed to Hutchinson's name. “Antinomian” means
“against the entire (Old Testament/old covenant) Law,” which some
believe was supplanted by the new covenant of salvation by grace.
Robinson learned through years of research that religious
denominations which arose in New England, owed much of their theology
to the early colonial Puritan ministers, whose experiences, beliefs,
and practices influenced generations of our ancestors, and numerous
American denominations.
For more information on Anne
Hutchinson, please visit
<https://MaryBarrettDyer.blogspot.com/2020/01>
For more information on INEXPLICABLE,
please visit Inexplicable
| TBN <https://www.tbn.org/programs/inexplicable/episodes>
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To watch the hour-long episode, visit https://watch.tbn.org/videos/inexplicable-part4
Short trailer of Episode Four:
From a Facebook comment on Feb 8, 2021:
"Hi Christy. I watched you on Inexplicable last week. All I can say is that they didn’t quote the REAL expert nearly enough! 😜 Good job!"
--Terri Driver Babcock
