Epic: A Journey Through Church History, Study Set [Paperback]

Steve Weidenkopf (Author), Dr. Alan Schreck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 31, 2009

This Study Set is intended for use with the Epic video DVDs and audio CDs. It includes everything a participant needs to complete the 20-part study. This Set includes: Epic Workbook (220 pages) Epic Timeline Chart Epic Timeline Bookmark This Set includes: Epic Workbook (220 pages) Epic Timeline Chart Epic Timeline Bookmark The Workbook (220 pages) guides participants through their study of Church History with thought-provoking questions and responses, detailed maps, charts, historical studies, biographies, and much more. Each lesson is designed to be followed by the corresponding talk from the DVD or CD series. With The Epic Timeline Chart Church history is systematically divided into 12 color-coded time periods to aid in remembering and applying what you ve learned. This chart is indispensable for any student of Church History. You will see before your eyes an historically accurate representation of the last 2,000 years including the popes, major saints and martyrs, councils, world powers, and more! The Epic Bookmark is a condensed version of the color-coded Epic Timeline Chart.

Editorial Reviews

Review

One of the key things many Catholics have lost since Vatican II is a sense of their own history. The future depends on our actions in the present, and the present depends on our memory of the past. Epic: A Journey Through Church History fills an urgent need for adult Catholics to recover their history as a believing community, debunk false criticisms of their Church, and understand the Christian underpinnings of the modern world. This is a vivid, thorough and engaging program. I heartily recommend it. --+Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Denver

"The Epic program is very impressive. The production quality is high. The timeline and periodization of two thousand years of Church history makes it approachable and understandable to the average Catholic to whom, after all, it belongs. Most Catholics know very little about the rich history of their Church. Anyone who goes through this program will not only have their knowledge and faith enriched, but will have the information necessary to answer the distortions of Catholic history that are so common in our world today. I plan to recommend its use in my own parish." --Thomas Madden Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University

This is Catholic history as it should be written, with Christ always at the center, and all the Popes features and listed, and the great saints and the doctors of the Church honored. --Warren H. Carroll, Founder of Christendom College

About the Author

Steve Weidenkopf is a Lecturer of Church History at the Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College in Alexandria, Virginia. He is the author of study guides on Pope Paul VI s encyclical, Humanae Vitae and the Second Vatican Council s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium). He has given numerous presentations and seminars on marriage, family life, human sexuality, Church History and theology. Steve served as the Director of the Office of Marriage & Family Life for the Archdiocese of Denver (2001 2004) and as an advisor to Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. He was also an instructor for Our Lady of the New Advent Theological Institute Catechetical School. He has his Master of Arts in Theological Studies from the Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College in Alexandria, Virginia. He received his Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in International Relations from Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y. Steve is a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Steve and his wife Kasey live in Northern Virginia with their five children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Ascension Press (January 31, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934217506
• ISBN-13: 978-1934217504
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #642,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best one out there!, July 3, 2010

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Epic is a serious study of Catholic Church history done by the most up to date and reputable scholars in the field. WELL worth getting and studying for your own growth in the Faith!

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I did not receive the chart or bookmark that should have have been included with this workbook. Please send it to me. I received the workbook and started using it immediately without noticing the absence of the chart or bookmark until I started taking the class.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Product mislabeled, January 3, 2011

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Epic: A Journey Through Church History is advertised and illustrated as a study set. It was not. Only a fill-in-the blanks workbook was shipped, which, without the supporting material is worthless. Workbook was returned and a credit promptly issued with no hassle.