Basic Church HIstory Time Line Pamphlet- Rose Publishing
I have seen a couple
of timelines before, one showing Jewish history/significant persons and the
other world history/significant persons, but I don't recall ever seeing a
church history timeline. This is a basic
church history timeline with markers telling of key events, Bible development,
key persons and church councils.
Included are some markers of certain heretical groups coming into being
(like Catholicism, Jehovah's Witnesses…etc.).
I didn't love the
timeline overall, mainly because the arrangement is a bit confusing to me, it
is arranged by chunks of centuries (AD 1500, 1600…1900..etc.) and the events
are underneath each 'age' but the problem for me is that since the lists of
events and people are descending at an angle some of them end up 'in' the
section for the next era when they
really aren't' in that era(though they do have a year next to each). Also, I would have preferred a format like
Adam's World history chart one of the features which I really liked about that
was that it had colored lines indicating about how long each person lived and
showed if their lives overlapped each other (for instance, who of Adam's
descendants were probably alive when Adam was still alive), the events of the
times were underneath the timeline of the people and it just made it really
neat and easier to understand for me.
But I need to keep in mind that this is
just a basic church history timeline, and it probably just isn't my
'style', others would probably have a fine time understanding it. Oh, and this church history timeline also
colors the various markers/symbols to help differentiate between persons,
events, councils…etc. So that's handy.
I didn't love the
timeline overall, mainly because the arrangement is a bit confusing to me, it
is arranged by chunks of centuries (AD 1500, 1600…1900..etc.) and the events
are underneath each 'age' but the problem for me is that since the lists of
events and people are descending at an angle some of them end up 'in' the
section for the next era when they
really aren't' in that era(though they do have a year next to each). Also, I would have preferred a format like
Adam's World history chart one of the features which I really liked about that
was that it had colored lines indicating about how long each person lived and
showed if their lives overlapped each other (for instance, who of Adam's
descendants were probably alive when Adam was still alive), the events of the
times were underneath the timeline of the people and it just made it really
neat and easier to understand for me.
But I need to keep in mind that this is
just a basic church history timeline, and it probably just isn't my
'style', others would probably have a fine time understanding it. Oh, and this church history timeline also
colors the various markers/symbols to help differentiate between persons,
events, councils…etc. So that's handy.
One of the other things I didn't particularly
like about this is that it listed some things that didn't seem relevant to me,
especially if one is doing a basic timeline,
for instance in the late 1900s the timeline has a marker for when Pope John Paul II apologized for the Roman
Catholic Church's lack of moral leadership during the Holocaust and there is
also a marker for 'Mother' Teresa's
death. I don't understand how those
things are relevant to Church History (unless you think that Roman Catholicism
is biblical).
Overall I just
thought it could have been better, but some people may really like it.
Thanks you to the
folks at Rose Publishing for sending me a free pdf review copy of this timeline
to review! (My review did not have to be favorable)
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