The Author

Susan Lynn Peterson has more than 15 years of teaching experience, most recently as a professor of church history at the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Claremont (Bloy House) in Claremont, California.  She holds a Ph.D. in Humanities and an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Texas in Arlington.  She also has an M.A. in Religion from the School Theology at Claremont, where her primary focus and thesis were in the area of church history.   Her Timeline Charts of the Western Church is the product of nearly a decade of research and writing.  Currently she is a professional writer, living in Arizona with her husband and cat.


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Timeline Charts of the Western Church

The Book

Now in its third printing, Timeline Charts of the Western Church has sold more than 6500 copies.  In March of 2000, it was named an ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award finalist.  Already in use throughout the English-speaking world, it is now being translated into other languages as well.

Timeline Charts of the Western Church traces Christianity from its roots to 1998.  The most comprehensive source of church history dates available today, it details the who, what, when, and where of the church.  Using dates and capsule descriptions, it maps out two millennia of people, organizations, doctrines, and practices, as well as their wider social and historical context. Its time-tested format, modeled after Bernard Grun's Timetables of History, allows readers to either browse or lay their finger on a specific fact with a minimum of hassle.  Though detailed enough for the serious student of church history, Timeline Charts of the Western Church is written in clear, accessible language so lay people and nonstudents can also use and enjoy it.

· 4500 entries spanning the two millennia from the birth of Christ to 1998

· Entries for 1282 individual people and 528 individual texts

· A comprehensive index containing 21,000 lines of information

· Several one-or-two-page summary charts containing overviews of church history

· Genealogy Charts for:
all the major denominations
most modern Bible translations
The Book of Common Prayer

· And more. . .

384 pages,  8-1/2”x11”,  cover price:  $24.99

Published by Zondervan Publishing House

By Susan Lynn Peterson

ISBN: 0310223539