Church History category: 3031 books
No Longer Church As Usual
Restoring First Century Values and Structure to the 21st Century Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The church is not a brick an mortar building. The church is not choirs, ushers or dynamic preachers. The church is not programs, events, or fundraisers for noble causes. The church is more than just a weekly get-together in a house or dedicated building. The church is life with purpose. It is life...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
W. E. B. Du Bois is the founding figure of the sociological study of the Black Church. His discussion of the six functions of Philadelphia’s Black Church in The Philadelphia Negro (1899) represented an early example of a “functional analysis” of a religious group. In The Negro Church (1903),...
Early Christians Speak, Vol. 1 3rd Ed.
Faith and Life in the First Three Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
These studies in early church history cover various aspects of the church life of early Christians. They focus on the second century.
What did the second century Christian leaders say about faith, baptism, infant baptism, worship services, the Lord's Supper, prayer, singing, church organization,...
To All Nations From All Nations
A History of the Christian Missionary Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Sharing the Good News might be understood as the prime directive of the Church from its earliest times, but the Church soon discovered unforeseen obstacles and its own set of temptations, including its lust for power and domination. Although the gospel might be joyfully offered, it was not always...
Church and Politics During the English Reformation
Ecclesiology and Politics in the Writings of Stephen Marshall (1595–1655)
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This is a literary study of the seventeenth-century pamphlets and sermons delivered to the Long Parliament by Stephen Marshall, a leading English Puritan. Marshall was known as preacher to the Long Parliament and for his participation in the further reformation of the English Church in the 1640s....
by Amanda Porterfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Amanda Porterfield offers a survey of ideas, rituals, and experiences of healing in Christian history. Jesus himself performed many miracles of healing, and Christians down the ages have seen this as a prominent feature of their faith. Indeed, healing is one of the most constant themes in the long...
The Third Disestablishment
Church, State, and American Culture, 1940-1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
In 1947, the Supreme Court embraced the concept of church-state separation as shorthand for the meaning of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The concept became embedded in Court's jurisprudence and remains so today. Yet separation of church and state is not just a legal construct; it...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
An ecumenical council (or oecumenical council; also general council) is a conference of the bishops of the whole Christian Church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice. The word derives from the Greek language "οκουμένη", which literally means "the inhabited world",...
by Shaw Clifton
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Constantly growing in numerical strength and in its geographic presence, The Salvation Army has continued to meet human need on every continent while also functioning as a worldwide evangelical church.
This ninth volume of its official history tells of countless initiatives to reach the needy,...
The Fake Jesus
Fallen Angels Among Us
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
In 2007, the author received a revelation that compared the church to a condemned building. Pam was asked, “would you put up curtains at the windows of a condemned building?” With that revelation came the understanding that the organized church was judged 3 decades ago. Not believing this word,...
A Modest Apostle
Thecla and the History of Women in the Early Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Scholars and mainline pastors tell a familiar narrative about the roles of women in the early church-that women held leadership roles and exercised some authority in the church, but, with the establishment of formal institutional roles, they were excluded from active leadership. Evidence of women's...
The Pope Who Would Be King
The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Pope and Mussolini tells the story of the bloody revolution that stripped the pope of political power and signaled the birth of modern Europe.
“[David I.] Kertzer’s brilliant treatment of the crisis in the papacy between 1846 and 1850 reads like...
God's Perfect Child
Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
From a former Christian Scientist, the first unvarnished account of one of America's most controversial and little-understood religious movements.
Millions of americans-from Lady Astor to Ginger Rogers to Watergate conspirator H. R. Haldeman-have been touched by the Church of Christ, Scientist....
by Beverly Carradine
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
This volume is a collection of anecdotes that speak of the early life and ministry of Beverly Carradine. Carradine was certainly a man of few words (at least, when speaking of himself), so this book has proven to be exceptionally valuable.
The Table of Contents are as follows:...