Church History category: 3031 books
The Penguin History of the Church
The Church in an Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 1990
The French Revolution dealt a fatal blow to the alliance of Church and State. The Christian church had to adapt to great changes - from the social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution to the philosophical speculations of Kant's 'Copernican revolution', to Darwin's evolutionary theories. Some Christians...
by Abel Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
From Wikipedia: Abel Stevens (1815–1897) was an American clergyman, editor, and author known for his books on Methodist religious history. He wrote History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America, an early history of the church that is frequently referenced in historical...
by Roy Strong
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Beautifully illustrated narrative history of the English country church In his engaging account, Sir Roy Strong celebrates the life of the English parish church
From the arrival of the missionaries from Ireland and Rome, to the beautiful architecture and rich spirituality of medieval Catholicism;...
Reformers and Babylon
English Apocalyptic Visions from the Reformation to the Eve of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Starting in the 1530s with John Bale, English reformers found in the apocalyptic mysteries of the Book of Revelation a framework for reinterpreting the history of Christianity and explaining the break from the Roman Catholic Church. Identifying the papacy with antichrist and the Roman Catholic Church...
by Moore, T. V.
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Having shown in a previous chapter that Christianity was introduced into Scotland very near to, if not during the lives of the Apostles, we now propose to show, that this primitive form of Christianity, as we find it in the Culdee Church, was substantially identical with that of the Reformed Church...
The Church in the Early Middle Ages
The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
The creation of a new history of the Church at the beginning of the third millennium is an ambitious but necessary project. Perhaps nowhere is it needed more than in re-describing the Church's development - its life and its thinking - in the period that followed the end of the 'early Church' in antiquity....
by Perrin, Jean Paul
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
It has given me no small pleasure to learn that you are engaged in publishing an American edition of the Rev. Jean Paul Perrin’s “History of the Old Waldenses, anterior to the Reformation.” In the execution of this undertaking, you are undoubtedly rendering an important service to the cause...
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Volume 1 (of 7)
Period 1. History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The events which make up the first volume of the History of the Church moved forward from the back ground of successive dispensations of the Gospel which preceded the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times. That volume covered the period from the birth of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 1805, to the close...
The Pope and Mussolini
The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI’s secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years...
Triumph
The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
For 2,000 years, Catholicism—the largest religion in the world and in the United States—has shaped global history on a scale unequaled by any other institution. But until now, Catholics interested in their faith have been hard-pressed to find an accessible, affirmative, and exciting history of...
A History of the Popes
From Peter to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
A History of the Popes tells the story of the oldest living institution in the Western world—the papacy. From its origins in Saint Peter, Jesus' chief disciple, through Pope Benedict XVI today, the popes have been key players in virtually all of the great dramas of the western world in the last...
Contending for the Faith
From Pentecost to the Rapture
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Contending for the Faith invites readers to explore two millennia of church history and to learn how God works through the churchs ministry to spread the gospel of Gods kingdom and, in the end, to defeat the forces working to oppose him. E. Daisy Rodriguez combines dramatic retellings of the biblical...
by Williston Walker
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Since publication of the first edition in 1918, A History of the Christian Church by Williston Walker has enjoyed outstanding success and recognition as a classic in the field. Written by an eminent theologian, it combines in its narrative a rare blend of clarity, unity, and balance. In light of significant...
The Penguin History of the Church
Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The history of the Western church in the Middle Ages is the history of the most elaborate and thoroughly integrated system of religious thought and practice the world has ever known. It is also the history of European society during eight hundred years of sometimes rapid change. This authoritative...