Church History category: 3031 books
by Benedict, David
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
This book is one of the greatest histories about the Donatists. This volume has a linked table of contents.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
Historical Sketches of North Africa
CHAPTER 2
Optatus Against the Donatists- The Origin of This Work
CHAPTER 3
Persecutions of the Donatists
CHAPTER 4
Extracts...
The Great Betrayal
Christians and Jews in the First Four Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
In the view of many contemporary scholars, both Jesus and Judaism have been misrepresented by the church for the past two thousand years. Their main point is that Judaism was not a superficial, rigid, and outdated religion, and Jesus did not reject it. In fact, along with his disciples, he remained...
by Matthew E. Bunson, D.Min.
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
"Make me an instrument of your peace." St. Francis of Assisi
When the curtains were drawn and our new Holy Father stepped out into view of the 150,000 people waiting in St. Peter's Square, it was a humble and gentle man from Argentina who greeted them, not in triumph, but with a gentle...
by Martin Luther, William R. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
For the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a new translation of Martin Luther's most famous works by leading Luther scholar and pastor William Russell
This volume contains selections from Martin Luther's most evocative and provocative writings, freshly translated, for the 21st century. These...
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
**An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts.
Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper Prize.
A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Gift Guide Pick! **
*Meetings...
by A. Kenneth Curtis, J. Stephen Lang, Randy Petersen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Brush up on the people, places, and events every Christian should know about with this fascinating, accessible guide. Ideal for pastors and speakers.
The Darkening Age
The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A New York Times Notable Book | A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, the Spectator, the Observer, and BBC History Magazine
In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town’s main street. In...
by James Aitken Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
J. A. Wylie (1808-1890) is considered by many to be one of the best religious historians of all time. While he penned many books during his lifetime, he is undoubtedly best known for this collection, The History of Protestantism.
Originally published as 24 books in 1878, this series is available...
by James Aitken Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
J. A. Wylie (1808-1890) is considered by many to be one of the best religious historians of all time. While he penned many books during his lifetime, he is undoubtedly best known for this collection, The History of Protestantism.
Originally published as 24 books in 1878, this series is being...
by St Benedict
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino, between Rome and Naples, in the sixth century, St Benedict intended his Rule to be a practical guide to Christian monastic life. Based on the key precepts of humility, obedience and love, its aim is to create a harmonious and efficient religious community in...
Majestie
The King Behind the King James Bible
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
In the Beginning, James.
Orphaned, bullied, lonely, and unloved as a boy, in time the young King of Scots overcame his troubled beginnings to ascend the English throne at the height of England’s Golden Age. In an effort to pacify rising tensions in the Anglican Church, and to reflect the...
Hindiyya, Mystic and Criminal, 1720-1798
A Political and Religious Crisis in Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
In this compelling narrative, Bernard Heyberger relates the fascinating history of Hindiyya 'Ujaymi, a highly charismatic eighteenth-century mystic of sinister repute.
Heyberger makes a careful study of Hindiyya's life from earliest childhood, with a detailed picture of her formative years...
The New England Soul
Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
"Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have precede it...The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period...very important book." - Journal of American History "Simply breathtaking in scope. No one else has...
How Jesus Became God
The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.
The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed...