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Christian Timelines
A Resource for Studying Christianity
A website run by Mark Nickens, Ph.D. To contact Mark, click at bottom.
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Christian Timelines offers multiple aids to understanding the history of Christianity. These include:
Summaries of Christian events, ideas, people, and movements: This page lists over 100 descriptions and summaries of events throughout the history of Christianity. They are arranged chronologically. New summaries are added periodically. Examples include:
Why do
Christians use a fish symbol?
Why
does the date of Easter keep moving?
Click
here to discover the answers to these and other
questions about Christianity you never thought to ask.
African-American Church Timeline: In this chronology, the history of the development of African-American Christianity is traced. The goal of this timeline is to show how African Americans developed churches, theologies, denominations, and institutions since the introduction of the first African slaves to the present. Click here.
Center for the Study of Armorbearers and Adjutants: The Center aims to be a clearinghouse of information for the study of Armorbearers and Adjutants. The purpose of the Center is to determine the history, the various definitions, and extent of usage of Armorbearers and Adjutants. Click here.
Reformation Timeline: In this chronology the actions of the major characters of the Reformation are traced side-by-side. Find out what Erasmus, Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Henry VIII, and others were doing while each was working out his own form of reformation. Click here.
Relics of the Middle Ages: This site contains a partial list of relics available during the Middle Ages. (Inclusion of this list does not suggest belief on the part of the website owner, merely that as a part of Church History, and especially in the Middle Ages, they played a significant role.) Click here.
Church Seminars: Mark has developed three seminars which he will present in your church. To learn more, click here.