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A history of Christian sacrifice

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

What's the role that sacrifice has played in the history of Christianity? It's a history that might be more complex, and more surprising, than we think. Jonathan Sheehan's latest book is On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular, and in this episode he tells Charlotte Vosper about how sacrifice has sat at the centre of Christianity from its very beginnings. ----- GO BEYOND THE PODCAST If you’d like to find out more about sacrifice beyond Christian Europe, then check out this HistoryExtra Q&A with Caroline Dodds Pennock about how and why Aztecs practiced human sacrifice: https://bit.ly/3MlQ31g Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's a history that might be more complex and more surprising than we think.

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Jonathan Sheehan's latest book is On the Altar, a history of sacrifice from the

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sacred to the secular. And in this episode of The History Extra podcast, he tells Charlotte Vosper

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about how sacrifice is sat at the center of Christianity from its very beginnings.

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Your book on the altar is about the history of sacrifice in Christianity, from the ancient world to the modern day.

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