Product Description: This revealing history examines the controversies, maneuvering, and political wrangling that occupied the Christian Church for the first four centuries of its existence.• Maps of Paul's journeys, of the cities that Ignatius of Antioch visited, and of the Roman and Persian Empires• Photographs including Caravaggio's Conversion of Paul, the Chi-Rho symbol, the Arian Baptistry in Ravenna Italy, the Arch of Constantine, the Altar of Victory, and Van Dyck's Ambrose• An overall chronology and a separate chronology for each chapte...read more