2nd Hand - Atlas Of The Christian Church By Henry Chadwick & G R Evans

2nd hand hard back. The loose cover as a small tear and a few scratches but otherwise in good condition.1988 edition

• 42 maps
• 302 illustrations
• including 239 in colour

Almost a third of the world's population, some 1430 million people, professes the Christian faith. For the past 2000 years the Christian Church has had an incalculable impact on the traditions, values, development and culture of all western societies and indeed on the world as a whole.

This superbly illustrated Atlas offers an authoritative survey of the Christian tradition in its many and changing forms through nearly two millenia.

It is organized into 3 broad divisions: up to 500 AD when Christianity was established as an independant religion inside the pagan Roman empire: from 500 to 1500 AD when Christianity expanded across Europe, establishing a monopoly of education and music, painting and architecture: and from 1500AD to the present day when the turbulent centuries of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation gave way to a modern world where the church has had increasinglt to battle against more secular values.

The text includes an index, chronological table, bibliography and gazetteer.

24x31cm