Overview
A new atlas of Christian history has been needed for many years. Now, Fortress Press is pleased to offer the Atlas of Christian History from acclaimed author and editor Tim Dowley.
Atlas of Christian History is built new from the ground up. Featuring more than fifty new maps, graphics, and timelines, the atlas is a necessary companion to any study of Christian history. Concise, helpful text, written by acknowledged authorities, guide the experience and interpret the visuals. Consciously written for students at any level, the volume is perfect for independent students, as well as those in structured courses.
The atlas is broken into five primary parts that correspond well to most major introductions to the topic. The final section on the modern era pays significant attention to the growth of Christianity as a global religion. Extensive maps are provided that illuminate Christianity in Asian, African, and Latin American contexts.
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Key Features
- Provides brilliant, richly detailed maps of church history's key events
- Includes helpful commentary on each map and event
- Covers events from the first mission of the disciples to the global Christianity of the modern world
Contents
- The Mission of the Twelve
- Jews and Christians in Palestine
- Christianity by AD 100
- Christianity by AD 300
- Constantine the Great
- The Arian Challenge
- Monophysite Christianity
- The Nestorian Church
- The Church in the West
- The First Monks
- Justinian I
- The Rise of Islam
- The Eastern Church After 451
- Celtic Monks and Missionaries
- Charlemagne
- The Anglo-Saxon Church
- Byzantium to 1,000
- The Making of the Russian Church
- The Great Schism
- Monasteries Reformed: Cluny
- The Cistercians
- The Crusades
- The Jews Oppressed
- Christian Pilgrimage
- The Rise of Learning
- The Rise of the friars
- Missions to the Mongols
- Medieval Heresy
- Christian Muscovey 1221-1510
- The West in 1500
- Charles V
- Christian Europe: 1560
- The Counter Reformation
- The Thirty Years' War
- Catholic Missions
- Christianity in the Philippines
- The Great Migration
- Christian Europe: 1700
- Christianity in South America
- Pietism
- The British Colonies: 1750
- The Great Awakening
- The Second Awakening
- African Christianity
- The First U.S. Missions
- Modern Missions to Africa
- Missions to India and Asia
- Missions to China and Japan
- Catholicism in the U.S.A.
- New Religious Movements
- The Rise of Pentacostalism
- African-Ammerican Churches
- Christianity in Australasia
- The Latin American Church
- Missions Worldwide
- The Ecumenical Movement
- The Church in the U.S.A.
- Christianity in Russia since 1917
- Worldwide Christianity Today
Product Details
- Title: Atlas of Christian History
- Author: Tim Dowley
- Publisher: Fortress
- Publication Date: 2016
- Pages: 176
- Resource Type: Atlas
- Topic: Church History
About Tim Dowley
Tim Dowley is author of The Christians: An Illustrated History and The Student Bible Atlas, Atlas of the European Reformations, and several other books on church history.
