Christian History Made Easy: Rose Bible Basics

Christian History Made Easy summarizes the most important events in the history of the church, from the time of Jesus to modern day. Christian History Made Easy explains early church history, the Church Councils, the Great Schism, the Crusades, Francis of Assisi, John Wycliffe, Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformation, and more. Christian History Made Easy presents key church history events and great Christian leaders everyone should know, along with full-color church history timelines, photos, pictures, and maps. The study guide and worksheets in the back makes this book an excellent Bible Study, adults Sunday school topics, or homeschool curriculum. Author Timothy Paul Jones makes Christian history refreshingly fun while at the same time informing Christians about the history of the Christian faith.Full-color, 224 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches.

• The Early Church--Peter and Paul, the Age of the Apostles, The Destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem scatters Christians
• Early Church Fathers
• Persecution of Christians--Emperor Nero and Domitian, Martyrdom of Peter, Paul, Ignaitius, Polycarp, Justin Martyr
• Christianity legalized in the Roman Empire, Emperor Constantine, Christianity the official religion in the Roman Empire

• The Council of Nicaea, The Nicene Creed
• Augustine, Jerome translates the Bible into Latin, St. Patrick
• Fall of the Roman Empire, rise of the Eastern Orthodox Church
• Gregory the Great, Rise of Monasticism
• Rise of Islam and the Islamic Conquest in Europe, Charles Martel, Charlemagne
• East/West Church Schism (Photian Schism), Leif Ericson converts to Christianity
• Great Schism, Hildebrand reforms the church, the Crusades, Lateran Councils, Richard the Lionheart

• Middle Ages, Bubonic Plague, John Wycliffe, the Wycliffe Bible
• The Renaissance, Jan Hus, Joan of Arc, Ottomans capture the Christian city of Constantinople, Johann Gutenberg's printing press

• Erasmus, Martin Luther, 95 Theses, Ulrich Zwingli, William Tyndale, King Henry VIII, The Geneva Bible, The Matthew's Bible, Church of England history, John Knox, Queen Mary Tudor, Queen Elizabeth I, King James Version Bible
• Galileo, Pilgrim's Progress, Quaker founded, first Protestant missionary societies

• John and Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, Handel writes the Messiah, Sunday school is developed, John Newton writes Amazing Grace. Divisions over slavery in Baptist history
• Abolition, William Wilberforce, Charles Finney leads revivals, George Muller's faith orphanage, YMCA an YWCA founded, Charles Spurgeon, Salvation Army founded

• Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary to India, Azusa Street, Scofield Bible, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Billy Graham, Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Modern political State of Israel
• C.S. Lewis, major evangelistic crusades in Latin America and Korea, Roman Catholic church apologizes for lack of leadership during the Holocaust

• Key events
• Key concepts
• Names you should know
• Terms you should know
• Bible maps and time-lines
• Things to think about
• Clarification of words
• At the end of each chapter is a student guide, student worksheet, learning activity and quiz

Timothy Paul Jones serves as a professor of Christian ministry and as associate vice president at the Southern Baptist Theological seminary, where he teaches courses in applied apologetics and family ministry.

Before teaching at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he led churches in Missouri and Oklahoma as pastor and associate pastor. Dr. Jones has authored or contributed to more than a dozen books, including PROOF; Conspiracies and the Cross; and, Christian History Made Easy. In 2007, Charles Colson listed him as one of "four names you need to know" when responding to the new atheists and in 2010, Christian Retailing magazine selecte