Atlas of the Christian Church

The Cultural Atlas of the World

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

Uses maps to trace the history and development of the Christian church, and describes the international church today, images of Christ, religious orders, holidays, and church music and buildings

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.