Church History category: 3031 books
Willing to Believe
The Controversy over Free Will
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
What is the role of the will in believing the good news of the gospel? Why is there so much controversy over free will throughout church history? R. C. Sproul finds that Christians have often been influenced by pagan views of the human will that deny the effects of Adam's fall.
In Willing to Believe,...
The Faith
A History of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Beginning with the birth of Jesus and tracing the religion established by his followers up to the present day, The Faith is a comprehensive exploration of the history of Christianity. Judiciously covering all the signal moments without bogging down in minutia, author Brian Moynahan's superbly written...
Exploring Our Hebraic Heritage
A Christian Theology of Roots and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Informed theological guide to the Jewish foundations of the Christian faith
In this very readable sequel to his popular book Our Father Abraham — which has sold more than 70,000 copies — Marvin Wilson illuminates theological, spiritual, and ethical themes of the Hebrew scriptures that directly...
Judas of Nazareth
How the Greatest Teacher of First-Century Israel Was Replaced by a Literary Creation
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
An investigation into the historical Jesus and the veracity of the Gospels
• Reveals the biblical Jesus as a composite figure, a blend of the political revolutionary Judas the Galilean and Paul’s divine-human Christ figure
• Matches the events depicted in the New Testament with...
by Joel R. Beeke, Diane Kleyn
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
The Reformation did not happen instantaneously; it was something God patiently arranged over a number of years. As you read this book, you will learn how the Lord used some people to plant the seeds of church reform long before October 31, 1517, when Martin Luther published his ninety-five theses. Luther's...
In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians
A Story of Suppression, Secrecy and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2012
The story of Japan's hidden Christians is the subject of a major motion picture by director Martin Scorsese, based on Shusaku Endo's famous novel, Silence.
From the time the first Christian missionary arrived in Japan in 1549 to when a nationwide ban was issued in 1614, over 300,000 Japanese...
by Joseph McCabe
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A Candid History of the Jesuits By McCabe, Joseph Originally published in 1913, this is an exhaustive examination of the history of the Jesuit society, based on original Jesuit documents. It affords a truthful picture of the dramatic fortunes of the Society during nearly four centuries, and some insight...
Glastonbury, the Templars, and the Sovran Shroud
A New Perspective on the Grail Legends
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A convincing new study of the Glastonbury legends which suggests that the Shroud may have come to England as the "Grail"Shedding new light on the Grail stories and the arrival of Christianity to Somerset, this book illustrates important links between Glastonbury and the Celtic settlement...
No Time for Silence
Evangelical Women in Public Ministry Around the Turn of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Denominations that formerly welcomed women in ministry often now oppose their ministry, not understanding their own history. No Time for Silence documents evangelical women who taught at Bible institutes, preached at Bible conferences, served at local church pastorates, and evangelized...
by Peter A. Mazur
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, conversion took on a new importance within the Catholic world, as its leaders faced the challenge of expanding the church's reach to new peoples and continents while at the same time reinforcing its authority in the Old World. Based on new archival research,...
by Lady Cecil Kerr, Dr Raymond Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The Church of the eighteenth century suffered greatly from Jansenism and the cold teachings of the rationalists. Yet the Blessed Virgin Mary offered her people a token as a medal, with the promise that those who wore it would receive a shower of graces. Now, almost two hundred years after the first...
AD 33
The Year That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
AD 33 was the year when an obscure religious teacher died a criminal's death in an outpost of the Roman Empire, an event which had world-changing consequences in the form of the beginnings of Christianity. What was the world like in that momentous year? In this breathtaking book, events in the Roman...
by David Rhymer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU• to discover how Protestantism developed and spread from Europe to America• to appreciate the wide range of interpretations of Protestantism, and the core beliefs and practices shared by the principal Protestant Churches• to understand the special history of the Church...
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...