Church History category: 3031 books
The 400 Silent Years
From Malachi to Matthew (Illustrated)
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Fully illustrated. Includes all of the drawings from the original edition. What is the history between the Old and New Testaments? Most people are not even aware there is such a gap. But there is. A 400 year gap. When the Old Testament leaves off the Jews have just returned back from Babylonian captivity...
by Shailer Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
•Covers the history of Palestine 175 B.C. 70 A.D. , from the time of Seleucid rule to the emergence of the Christian Church.Shailer Mathews was a Christian theologian and noted author, serving as the dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Mathews A History of New Testament Times...
What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
This provocative addition to The Church and Postmodern Culture series offers a lively rereading of Charles Sheldon's In His Steps as a constructive way forward. John D. Caputo introduces the notion of why the church needs deconstruction, positively defines deconstruction's role in renewal, deconstructs...
Great Emergence, The
How Christianity Is Changing and Why
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
E
very five hundred years, the church cleans out its attic and has a giant rummage sale. Well, not exactly. But according to Phyllis Tickle, this is an accurate summary of the church's massive transitions over time. According to the pattern, we are living in such a time of change right now. Tickle...
by Richard Atwater
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
The Secret History of Procopius
tr. by Richard Atwater
Procopius, who also wrote a mainstream military history and a toadying description of the monuments which Justinian built, had to keep his most acute writing for posthumous publication. This text flays Justinian and Theodora as corrupt,...
by Charles Pastoor, Galen K. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Members of the Church of England until the mid-16th century, the Puritans thought the Church had become too political and needed to be 'purified.' While many Puritans believed the Church was capable of reform, a large number decided that separating from the Church was their only remaining course of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
The Oxford History of Christian Worship is a comprehensive and authoritative history of the origins and development of Christian worship to the present day. Backed by an international roster of experts as contributors, this new book will examine the liturgical traditions of Orthodox, Catholic, and...
by William D. Blake
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
On this day in history. . .something amazing happened in the Christian world. Find out just what with This Day in Christian History. Every day for an entire year, you’ll find a brief, easy-to-read highlight of church history, from the birth of modern Pentecostalism (January 1, 1901) to the first...
The Catholic Church
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Roman Catholicism stands at a crossroads, a classic ''best of times, worst of times'' moment. On the one hand, the Catholic Church remains by far the largest branch of the worldwide Christian family, and is growing at a remarkable clip. Yet the Church has also been rocked by a series of scandals related...
Cover-Up
How the Church Silenced Jesus's True Heirs
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
The Christian church hides a multitude of secrets; it is, after all, a mystery religion. For instance, what if Jesus did not start Christianity? What if Paul, who knew Jesus only through visions, created it? In Cover-Up, author and lay minister Lawrence Goudge disputes the Christian theology that...
Origen : Scholarship in the Service of the Church
Scholarship in the Service of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
This book is about the life and thought of Origen (c.185-254 A.D.) the most important Greek-speaking Christian theologian and Biblical scholar in antiquity. His writings included works on the text of the Bible commentaries and sermons on most of the books of the Bible a major defense of the Christian...
A World Ablaze
The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
October 2017 marks five hundred years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg and launched the Protestant Reformation. At least, that's what the legend says. But with a figure like Martin Luther, who looms so large in the historical imagination, it's hard to separate...
Protestant England and Catholic Spain
Two Nations Molded by Religion, and Their Impact on America
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Jose Escamilla has a forty-year Christian ministry. He has a four-year university education and an associate in arts degree in bilingual studies from San Diego City College. As an adolescent, he attended Nogales Bible School in Nogales, Arizona, for five years. There he received training for the Christian...
by Michael Reeves, Tim Chester
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Does the Reformation Still Matter?
In 1517, a German monk nailed a poster to the door of a church, disputing key doctrines taught by the Roman Catholic Church in that day. This moment set in motion a movement that changed the entire trajectory of church history. But do the Reformers still have...