The rich tapestry of nearly 2,000 years of church history overflows with persons, places, events, dates, and ideas. This volume in the popular ZondervanCharts series visually organizes large amounts of information from the history of the church for greater understanding and ease of reference. Students, teachers, pastors, and church history buffs will find this collection a valuable reference, one they will turn to again and again for their own information and for teaching others.This revised and expanded edition contains 126 charts (43 of which are new) that cover the history of the ancient...

Eternal Values for a Valueless Age is a survey of the Ten Commandments based on the Christian Ethics course prepared, refined, and taught by the author for more than thirty-five years in Christian high schools. The book begins with a chapter on ethical decision-making that examines various ways in which non-Christians approach matters of morality, critiquing these and comparing them with basic biblical principles. Each of the succeeding chapters focuses on one of the Ten Commandments, beginning with an explanation of the principles on which the commandment is based, then moving on to consider...

"The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, 'Son of man, can these bones live?' I said, 'O Sovereign Lord, you alone know'" (Ezekiel 37:1-3). Many students approaching the study of Church History have felt a certain kinship with Ezekiel. They have looked around them and seen nothing but dead men's bones - and exceedingly dry ones at that. What good does it do to...

Secularism has become the religion of the university campus, and Christians are often subjected to ridicule and taught that what they have learned from their parents, (Christian) school, and church is not worthy of consideration by a thoughtful person in today's society. How are Christian young people to be intellectually and spiritually equipped for today's college campuses? Students must first understand that "all truth is God's truth." The world is not divided into the realms of the secular, where science and humanism reign and religion has no place, and the sacred, where beliefs amount to...

Anyone looking at Scripture finds that the material in the Bible is not arranged topically. Thus the pursuit of Systematic Theology requires some justification. Why should anyone rearrange the teaching found in the Bible on the basis of some man-made scheme? First of all, the practice of Systematic Theology is supported by Scripture itself, where we find instances where those who sought to understand its teachings drew from a variety of passages in order to do so. Second, Systematic Theology is legitimized by the inspiration and unity of Scripture. The Bible is made up of sixty-six books, but...

'The volume, in its constitution and authorship, presents a balance between academic scholarship and practical educational expertise. For that reason, as well as for many others, it is a work of obvious weight and value, containing a vast amount of information, lucidly and attractively presented, which many teachers are sure to find most helpful to them in their work' (Church Times).