Sail 9: The Church
The seven periods of Church History
| Period 1 – The Apostolic Church… 30 – 100 A.D. | Simon, who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew | 1,2 | |
| Ends with the Death of the Apostle John (100 AD) | James son of Zebedee, and his brother John | 3,4 | |
| Philip, Bartholomew (Nathanael), Thomas | 5,6,7 | ||
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Matthew the tax collector, James son of Alphaeus, and
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8,9 | ||
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Thaddaeus (Judas, son of James), Simon the Zealot
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10,11 | ||
| Judas Iscariot, Matthias, Paul | 12 | ||
| Period 2 – The Persecuted Church… 100 – 313 A.D. | Justin Martyr | 100 | 165 |
| Ends with the Edict of Constantine (313 AD) | Tertullian | 145 | 195 |
| Irenaeus | 130 | 201 | |
| Period 3 – The Imperial Church… 313 – 476 A.D. | John Chrysostom | 347 | 407 |
| Ends with the Fall of Rome (476 AD) | Jerome | 342 | 420 |
| Augustine | 354 | 430 | |
| Period 4 – The Medieval Church… 476 – 1453 A.D. | Peter Abelard | 1079 | 1142 |
| Ends with the Fall of Constantinople (1453 AD) | Thomas Aquinas | 1225 | 1274 |
| John Wycliffe | 1302 | 1384 | |
| John Huss | 1369 | 1415 | |
| Period 5 – The Reformed Church… 1453 – 1648 A.D. | Desiderius Erasmus | 1466 | 1536 |
| Ends with the End of The 30-year War (1648 AD) | Martin Luther | 1483 | 1546 |
| John Calvin | 1509 | 1564 | |
| Thomas Cartwright | 1535 | 1603 | |
| Period 6 – The Modern Church… 1648 – 1912 A.D. | Roger Williams | 1603 | 1683 |
| Ends at the Birth of Francis Schaeffer (1912 AD) | Jonathan Edwards | 1703 | 1758 |
| George Whitfield | 1714 | 1770 | |
| John Wesley | 1703 | 1791 | |
| William Wilberforce | 1759 | 1833 | |
| William Carey | 1761 | 1834 | |
| Charles Spurgeon | 1834 | 1892 | |
| D.L. Moody | 1837 | 1899 | |
| Period 7 – The Contemporary Church… 1912 – now | J. Gresham Machen | 1861 | 1937 |
| Ends at the Rapture of the Church | Peter Marshall | 1902 | 1949 |
| C.S. Lewis | 1895 | 1963 | |
| Francis Schaeffer | 1912 | 1984 | |
| Bill Bright | 1921 | 2003 | |
| D. James Kennedy | 1930 | 2007 | |
| Phillip E. Johnson | 1940 | 2019 | |
| John Whitcomb | 1924 | 2020 | |
| Outline revised from Dr. Jesse Hurlbut | The Story of the Christian Church |
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