Chronological and Background Charts of Church History

by Robert C. Walton

Book Overview

See how the rich tapestry of nearly 2,000 years of church history unfolded.Packed with teaching and learning tools, from charts and timelines, to maps and visual guides, Chronological and Background... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310362814
• ISBN13: 9780310362814
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Great charts on church history!!

I have found this book to be very well equipped to accurately display the history of the Church! God Bless!!

Great schematic overview of Church History.

This is a new title in this series which concentrates the essentials of Christian Church History into a series of diagrams and tables that put this information at your finger tips rapidly. Wonderful source for lectures. Great place to start if you are learning the subject for the first time. It keeps you from getting lost in the details.

An expansive and highly informative look into the entirety of the Christian Church's history

As the Zondervan Charts series presents a well formatted product, Chronological And Background Charts of Church History: Revised And Expanded Edition by Robert C. Walton is an accurate and precise history of the past 2000 years of the Christian Church. Church History is an expansive and highly informative look into the entirety of the Christian Church's history, and is highly recommended as an excellent reference for both clergy and lay members of the Christian Church.

Great aid to studying church history

Nothing really beats a good chart that can lay out similarities and differences when you are studying historical events, theological tenants or similar items. Likewise charts are excellent for illustrating a time line or listings or items. This book excels in putting together teaching charts of all sorts of information in a form where it is easy to understand. Examples of the types of charts included in this text include a Timeline of Church History, The Divine Sovereignty and Free Will debate through the centuries, Branches of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Early Symbols of Christianity, Apostolic Fathers and Early Writings, Development of the New Testament Canon, Ante-Nicene Heresies, Ancient Church Heresies, Women in the Ancient Church, The Crusades, Major Monastic Orders, Protestant Creeds of the Reformation Era, European Revivals, Major Indigenous Christian Religious Movements in Africa, Translations of the Bible into English, Religion in the Thirteen Colonies, Denominational Schisms over Slavery, Black Denominations in the United States, and Family Trees of the major American Christian groups. These are only a few of the 126 charts presented in this book. An excellent choice for studying church history, Chronological and Background Charts of Church History is highly recommended.

Great suppliment to Church History study

This workbook is a wonderful aid to the student of church history. Putting the major movements of the development of the Christian church into chart form, this book will give you a ready reference to put people and important church situations in chronological context. Most charts include brief statements of appropriate theology or doctrine, allowing the student to quickly glance at the movement of the church. I'd highly recommend this as a resource to anyone interested in church history.