Christian Book of Records

by Hendrickson Publishers

• ISBN13: 9781565636330
• ISBN10: 1565636333
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Hendrickson Pub

Summary

Available July 2002

"The Christian Book of Records" is a colorful handbook of Christian facts and trivia that is both a reference resource and a sourcebook for enlightening entertainment. It is filled with hundreds of full-color pictures, charts, and illustrations. As you browse through it, you will discover little known facts, statistics, and historical tidbits on Christianity, the church, church leaders, and the Bible.

The topics are wide-ranging, exciting, and even fun" archaeological discoveries, famous personalities and missionaries, great martyrs of the faith, visions, conversions, church buildings, mottoes and sayings, and hundreds of other topics. There is even a century-by-century chronological overview of the development of Christianity. Whether you are looking for information, trivia, or just plain entertainment, you will be amazed and inspired by seeing God s work and God s people throughout the centuries. And it s completely indexed.

The Bible: statistics, translations, archaeological discoveries . . .
The Spread of Christianity: first apo

Table of Contents

The Bible
Statistics	8	(8)
Distribution	16	(2)
Translations	18	(8)
Archeological Discoveries	26	(7)
First, Last, Greatest	33	(5)
The Spread of Christianity
2,000 Years -an Overview	38	(4)
First Apostles	42	(7)
Missions and Missionaries
Reformers of Society	49	(4)
20th-Century Evangelism	53	(7)
Christian Thoughts
Writers and Writings	60	(5)
Mottoes and Sayings	65	(4)
Christianity and Science	69	(5)
A Variety of View	74	(6)
Christian Experience
Conversion	80	(5)
Prophecies	85	(2)
Visions	87	(5)
Christian Groups
Traditional Groups	92	(7)
Modern Group	99	(7)
Mission Group	106	(4)
Relief Organization	110	(4)
Service Group	114	(4)
Christian Practices
Music	118	(4)
Hymns	122	(4)
Prayers	126	(7)
Signs and Symbols	133	(7)
Christians Under Fire
Bible Martyrs	140	(3)
Apostolic Martyrs	143	(2)
Early Martyrs	145	(4)
Famous Martyrs	149	(3)
The Boxer Uprising in China	152	(2)
20th-Century Persecution	154	(2)
Responses to Adversity	156	(4)
Potpourri
Christmas	160
Easter	16	(148)
Church Buildings	164	(7)
Mystery of the Shroud	171	(3)
In Memoriam	174	(4)
Century By-Century Chronology
1st to 5th Centuries	178	(3)
6th to 14th Centuries	181	(3)
15th to 17th Centuries	184	(4)
18th to 20th Centuries	188