Church History category: 3031 books
by Bernard Thorogood
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
If you have some interest in the story of the Christian church through the ages but have not tackled any of the large, comprehensive volumes that seem daunting, this is a starting point. It provides a brief introduction to over a hundred topics, from Adam to Zionism. The author provides a vivid glimpse...
by Samuel Smiles
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
THE HUGUENOTS IN FRANCE AFTER THE REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES.
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES
EFFECTS OF THE REVOCATION—CHURCH IN THE DESERT
CLAUDE BROUSSON, THE HUGUENOT...
Founding Sins
How a Group of Antislavery Radicals Fought to Put Christ into the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Covenanters, now mostly forgotten, were America's first Christian nationalists. For two centuries they decried the fact that, in their view, the United States was not a Christian nation because slavery was in the Constitution but Jesus was not. Having once ruled Scotland as a part of a Presbyterian...
Hitler's Cross
How the Cross Was Used to Promote the Nazi Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The story of Nazi Germany is one of conflict between two saviors and two crosses.
“Deine Reich komme,” Hitler prayed publicly—“Thy Kingdom come.” But to whose kingdom was he referring?
When Germany truly needed a savior, Adolf Hitler falsely assumed the role. He directed his...
Baptists in America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The Puritans called Baptists "the troublers of churches in all places" and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are the second-largest religious group in America, and their influence matches their numbers. They have built strong institutions, from...
Testimonies of Faith
Celebrating 50 Years of Ministry in Scarborough at Faith Baptist Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
This book was compiled to celebrate fifty years of ministry in Scarborough at Faith Baptist Church and to provide a lasting and meaningful memorial to mark this occasion. We recognize the dedication and labour of those who pioneered this work and those who built it up through the early decades so...
by Stephen Tomkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Worshipped by 2 billion Christians worldwide, Jesus Christ is the most famous human being ever. Stephen Tomkins takes the reader on a enlightening and enjoyable journey through the key stages of Christian development, covering the people, the events, the movements, the controversies and the expansion...
by Katherine Clark
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU• to appreciate the depth and beauty of the dominant form of Christianity in Greece, Russia and much of Eastern Europe• to understand the tenets, nature and holy days of Orthodox belief• to recognize the physical features of an Orthodox church, and the spiritual significance...
The Church
Unlocking the Secrets to the Places Catholics Call Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
From the bestselling authors of The Mass, an insightful and practical guide that explores the architectural and spiritual components of the Catholic Church.
Your local church is not only a physical place, but a spiritual home. In this through-provoking book, Wuerl and Aquilina illuminate the...
by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This manual was written as the course curriculum for home-study seminary students. It contains writing assignments for each of the 32 units. It also contains insights, images, and doctrines and principles to help students with their individual study.
by Rev. John Ryan S. J.
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Get the other side of the argument. Was St. Patrick part of a Celtic Church that was separate from the See of Rome?
Did he come under the jurisdiction of the Church of Britain, a Celtic form of early Christianity or did he submit to the Pope? Was St. Patrick a proto-Protestant?
Like...
When the Tui Calls
Rural Ministry – Origins and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
The Tui (Parson Bird), with its tuft of white feathers at the neck, is highly adaptive, has a distinctive call, is protective of its domain, is an imitator of song and speech and is an enduring example of survival and adaptability.
This essay on rural ministry reflects on its long evolution,...
The Conclave
A Sometimes Secret and Occasionally Bloody History of Papal Elections
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2003
In 1271, with the papal throne vacant for over two years, local officials locked the cardinals of the Catholic Church in a room, forcing them to select a new pope. From this inauspicious beginning arose the practice of the conclave, the highly secretive combination of rituals and politics designed...
by Alexander Clarence Flick
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAPTER I The Study of Church History
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CHAPTER XXIII The Mediæval Church at its Height
Index