Atlas of the Christian Church

The Cultural Atlas of the World

by Henry Chadwick (Editor), G.R. Evans (Editor)

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Genres: History, Reference, Christian

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Henry Chadwick was a British academic, theologian and Church of England priest. A former dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford – and as such, head of Christ Church, Oxford – he also served as master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
A leading historian of the early church, Chadwick was appointed Regius Professor at both the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He was a noted supporter of improved relations with the Catholic Church, and a leading member of the Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission. An accomplished musician, having studied music to degree level, he took a leading part in the revision and updating of hymnals widely used within Anglicanism, chairing the board of the publisher Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd. for 20 years.

Reviews

[Nick · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Danielle Ma]

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)

[Zecchaeus Jensen · Rating 3 out of 5]

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. :/

[Steve Gysler · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a good book.