Church History category: 3031 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
The nature and story of the Christian church is immensely important to theology students and scholars alike. Written by an international team of distinguished scholars, this comprehensive book introduces students to the fundamental historical, systematic, moral and ecclesiological aspects of the study...
A Nation with the Soul of a Church: How Christian Proclamation Has Shaped American History
How Christian Proclamation Has Shaped American History
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
What did 18th-century preacher Jonathan Edwards really mean to convey with is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon? What Southern minister did most to encourage secession of the Southern states from the Union? And why does Martin Luther King Jr. need to be remembered for more than...
Defenders of the Faith
Standing for truth when attacks come
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
The church has been under attack from its inception, but certain struggles seemed to threaten its very existence. In this inspiring book, Dr Matthew Knell celebrates some of these key figures who have kept the church alive in the midst of great adversity, exploring three major periods of persecution...
Disappearing Church
From Cultural Relevance to Gospel Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
When church and culture look the same...
For the many Christians eager to prove we can be both holy and cool, cultural pressures are too much. We either compartmentalize our faith or drift from it altogether—into a world that’s so alluring.
Have you wondered lately:
Why does...
Priests and Politicians
Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
In the decade beginning with the hanging of Louis Riel in 1885, a series of radical and religious conflicts shook Canada, culminating in the Manitoba school crisis of the 1890s. By 1896, the focal point of the controversy was remedialism, the attempt to have Roman Catholic school privileges in Manitoba...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Wealth and poverty are issues of perennial importance in the life and thought of the church. This volume brings patristic thought to bear on these vital issues. The contributors offer explanations of poverty in the New Testament period, explore developments among Christians in Egypt and Asia Minor...
by C. Silvester Horne
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
A Century of Christian Service : Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893
Of the Kensington of 1793 I need not say much; for most of those who read this little book will be quite familiar with the astonishing change that has come over this locality since then. We like...
Rediscovering the Role of The Church
God's Government on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Have you ever wondered which church is the right church? Why are there many churches out there claiming to be the right ones and insisting that the others are wrong? Why are there many people having passion for the church, while others are stumbling and leaving their faith because of the church?!...
On with the Reformation
Facing up to the church's misuse of power
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
The church in the Western world is in decline. Sean Devine reflects on the church's 2000-year history to understand what it has become and what it should be. It is not the church's structures, programmes or core theology that needs to change - it just needs to be more like Jesus. The church must be...
Reformation Anglicanism
Biblical - Generous - Beautiful
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
With so many people discovering Anglicanism today, especially younger people yearning for a connection with the Early Church, there is great need of this delightful book telling Anglicanism’s story from its early roots to today’s relevance. Reformation Anglicanism by Chuck Collins traces the history...
Faith and Leadership
The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This study is a comprehensive history of the papacy, the oldest elective office in the world, and how it has managed over the centuries the most complex voluntary association of faith. The book argues that in fact through most of its existence, the papacy has adapted managerial models of the secular...
Of Borders and Margins
Hispanic Disciples in Texas, 1888-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2003
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has an uneasy relationship with its Hispanic constituency. Machado probes the history of this tension by examining the Disciples' interaction with Hispanics in Texas around the turn of the 20th century. The Church's inability to develop significant ties with...
by Derek Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2016
Christianity is a global faith. Today, people are increasingly aware that Christianity extends far beyond Europe and North America, permeating the Eastern and Southern hemispheres. What we may know less well is that Christianity has always been a global faith. A vast untold story waits to be heard...
Your Sister in the Gospel
The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
"Dear Brother," Jane Manning James wrote to Joseph F. Smith in 1903, "I take this opportunity of writing to ask you if I can get my endowments and also finish the work I have begun for my dead.... Your sister in the Gospel, Jane E. James." A faithful Latter-day Saint since her conversion sixty years...