The Christian Spring
Scripture, the Church Fathers, and the great theology and liturgy — pick a Father to trace where they lived and taught, or select the ideas below to see how they spread across the centuries, from the apostles to the modern age.
509 authors · 590 works · 26,467 passages · 282 concepts
Trace a Father's life-journey
Follow where a theologian or saint lived and taught — pin by pin, in the order they traveled.
Watch an idea spread
Pick any combination of ideas to see every place they appear, lit up across the centuries.
The one God in three persons — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Who Christ is, and how he saves — Incarnation, the Cross, grace, and redemption.
The Church and its life of worship — baptism, the Eucharist, the liturgical year, fasting, and pilgrimage.
How Scripture is read, and how the great councils, schisms, and reform movements shaped the faith.
Sin and freedom, virtue and martyrdom, prayer and the soul's ascent — and the resurrection, judgment, and the life to come.
This is an example — you’re tracing the life of Augustine of Hippo(354–430), from his birth in Thagaste in Roman North Africa to his studies in Carthage, his teaching in Rome, his conversion and baptism in Milan under Ambrose, and his long episcopate at Hippo, where he wrote the Confessions and the City of God. Each pin is a place he lived; the line follows the order he traveled. Click any pin to read what happened there.
Now chart your own: trace a different Father, or pick any idea above — the Trinity, grace, the sacraments. Choose as many as you like.