Church History category: 3031 books
Through Fire and Water
An Overview of Mennonite History
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Through Fire and Water presents the Mennonite faith story within the sweep of church history. This engaging text uses stories of men and women, peasants and pastors, heroes and rascals, to trace the radical Reformation from sixteenth-century Europe to today's global Anabaptist family. Written in an...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
We have long been taught that the Enlightenment was an attempt to free the world from the clutches of Christian civilization and make it safe for philosophy. The lesson has been well learned. In today's culture wars, both liberals and their conservative enemies, inside and outside the academy, rest...
The Didascalia Apostolorum
The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Didascalia Apostolorum, or just Didascalia, is a Christian treatise which belongs to the genre of the Church Orders. It presents itself as being written by the Twelve Apostles at the time of the Council of Jerusalem; however, scholars agree that it was actually a composition of the 3rd century, perhaps...
The Directory for Confessors, 1585
Implementing the Catholic Reformation in New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In the late sixteenth century, after the Council of Trent and the Catholic Reformation, the confessional became a key means to improve morals and religious life—and, for the Catholic clergy of New Spain, a new avenue through which they might reach the consciences of Spaniards and improve their treatment...
Shakespeare's Common Prayers
The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional...
Union Made
Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
In Gilded Age America, rampant inequality gave rise to a new form of Christianity, one that sought to ease the sufferings of the poor not simply by saving their souls, but by transforming society. In Union Made, Heath W. Carter advances a bold new interpretation of the origins of American Social Christianity....
by Charles Spurgeon
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers". Spurgeon was to 19th century England what D. L Moody...
The History of Protestantism
ALL 24 Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
"The History of Protestantism, which we propose to write, is no mere history of dogmas. The teachings of Christ are the seeds; the modern Christendom, with its new life, is the goodly tree which has sprung from them. We shall speak of the seed and then of the tree, so small at its beginning,...
John Owen and the Civil War Apocalypse
Preaching, Prophecy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
John Owen was one of the most significant figures in Reformed Orthodox theology during the Seventeenth Century, exerting considerable religious and political influence in the context of the British Civil War and Interregnum. Using Owen’s sermons from this period as a window into the mind of a self-proclaimed...
by Brigham Henry Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
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The following work was begun twenty-two years ago, in England, when the author was in that land on a Mission, as assistant Editor of the Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star. It was the author's design then to make the treatise on the Book of Mormon the first volume under...
Christians In Egypt
Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Communities - Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Drawing on more than four decades of experience studying Christian communities in Egypt, Otto Meinardus offers here a sweeping overview of the principal Christian churches and organizations in Egypt today. For the first time, this wealth of information has been gathered into one volume, making it...
Who Chose the Gospels?
Probing the Great Gospel Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The Bible contains four Gospels which tell the story of Jesus of Nazareth. And yet, many more Gospels once existed. Who, then, determined which Gospels would, for the next two thousand years, serve as the main gateways to Jesus and his teaching? Recent books and films have traced the decision to a...
'Let us die that we may live'
Greek homilies on Christian Martyrs from Asia Minor, Palestine and Syria c.350-c.450 AD
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
This book presents fresh, lively translations of fourteen such homilies, the majority for the first time in English. The homilies were delivered in some of the main cities of the Greek East of the later Roman Empire, by well-known figures such as Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and John Chrysostom,...
Contested Boundaries
Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 1994
The First Great Awakening in eighteenth-century America challenged the institutional structures and raised the consciousness of colonial Americans. These revivals gave rise to the practice of itinerancy in which ministers and laypeople left their own communities to preach across the countryside. In...