Chronological and Background Charts of Church History
Copyright 1986, 2005 by Robert C. Walton
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Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530
ePub Edition June 2018: ISBN 978-0-310-52879-1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Walton, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
Chronological and background charts of church history / Robert C. WaltonRev. and expanded ed.
p. cm. - (ZondervanCharts)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-310-25813-1
1. Church historyChronologyCharts, diagrams, etc. I. Title. II. Series.
BR149.W25 2005
2700202dc22
2005017303
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To Chris
This is an era when people downgrade or ignore the value of both secular and sacred history. Cicero wisely said that those who know nothing of the past before their birth are doomed to be like children living in the present without the valuable wisdom of the past. Santayana believed that those who forget or ignore the past are doomed to repeat its least desirable features.
This should not be true of those who take advantage of the charts and diagrams presented in this book. Church history, because the church has existed for almost two thousand years and because it has a global scope, includes a mass of complex data. The author presents the significant facts of the past in useful charts and diagrams so that the student can see what facts are important and what their relationship is to the story of the church. The book will be a useful supplement to classroom texts and lectures, supplying information on the who, what, when, where, and how of church history. It also will be useful to the general reader who desires a brief survey of the important data of church history.
Earle E. Cairns
Wheaton, Illinois
This collection of charts has a twofold purpose. The first purpose relates to the organization and accessibility of the factual information involved in the study of church history. As a church history teacher, I found that my greatest challenge lay in taking a vast amount of information and reducing it to some orderly form for the purpose of presenting it to my class. This book takes the process a step further, reducing what is often found in paragraph form to a series of charts. As such, I hope it will be helpful to student and teacher alike, both as a way of gaining rapid access to basic information without wading through many pages of text and as a way of providing orderly categories into which that information may be placed.
The second purpose relates to the interpretation and presentation of material. Many of these charts have developed out of my own teaching experience, and I trust they will be as useful to other teachers as they have been to me in presenting to students an interpretive overview of a particular trend or pattern or in providing a simple schema for grasping an especially knotty issue.
To the extent that the presentation of history is selective, it is also subjective. Nevertheless, I believe that my decisions concerning which people and facts to include and which to exclude have resulted in a collection of charts that will prove to be useful and enlightening to many people. I hope that this book may in some small measure stimulate not only understanding of, but also appreciation for, the study of church history, which is, after all, the chronicle of God's work in the world.
In this revised and expanded edition of Chronological and Background Charts of Church History, I had the opportunity to make many revisions to the first edition and to add more than forty new charts. I appreciate those helpful critics who corresponded with me over the last eighteen years and pointed out mistakes and suggested improvements. I trust you will find some of your ideas incorporated into this revised edition of the book.
Robert C. Walton
August 2004
1 AD200 AD | 200 AD400 AD | 400 AD600 AD | 600 AD800 AD | 800 AD1000 AD |
PEOPLE | Peter (d.c.67) Paul (d.c.67) Ignatius (d.117) Polycarp (c.69160) Justin Martyr (c.100165) Tertullian (c.160c.220) Origen (c.185c.254)
| Anthony of Thebes (c.251356) Constantine (d.337) Athanasius (c.296373) Jerome (c.345420) Augustine of Hippo (354430) Patrick (c.390c.461)
| Leo I (d.461) Boethius (c.480524) Benedict of Nursia (480c.543) Gregory I (c.540604)
| Charlemagne (742814) Nicholas I (d.867)
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EVENTS | Pentecost (c.33) Pauls Missionary Journeys (c.46c.57) Neronian Persecution (64) Fall of Jerusalem (70) Completion of New Testament (c.95)
| Edict of Milan (313) Council of Nicea (325) Council of Constantinople (371) Christianity becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire (381)
| Latin Vulgate (c.400) Augustines The City of God (427) Council of Ephesus (431) Council of Chalcedon (451) Fall of Roman Empire in the West (476) Council of Orange (529)
| Muslim Conquest (633732) Iconoclastic Controversy (725843) Donation of Pepin (752)
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