Title | : | Atlas of the Christian Church |
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ISBN | : | 0333441575 |
ISBN-10 | : | 9780333441572 |
Language | : | English |
Format Type | : | Hardcover |
Number of Pages | : | 240 |
Publication | : | First published January 1, 1987 |
Atlas of the Christian Church Reviews
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Lovely volume in the Cultural Atlas series, this contains great maps and illustrations. The text provides a really useful general outline of early Christianity to the present day.
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I haven't cracked open either of Caleb's dense history books (The Penguin History of the World and Gonzalez's The Story of Christianity Volume 1) but I reckon this is much more accessible and retainable than the two. There's art, pictures, timelines, and readable text that doesn't make you doze off mid-sentence...
Anyways this is a perfect primer for before getting anywhere close to his books haha.
I flipped through the book for a bit and only ended up having time to read the first few pages of the Reformation section but wow, I'm seriously clueless with a lot of the more basic foundational historical stuff. I've briefly glanced through the stuff before but never really allowed any of it to actually sink in so... guess I have a lot of foundation building to do!
And it's edited by Henry Chadwick! (The guy who translated my edition of Augustine's Confession, what a cool bloke) -
Looked like a good book at first when it looked at the early Church but it only gives eight pages to Orthodoxy and limits it’s scope to a very small period of when it was written in the 70’s. :/
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It's a good book.