Church History category: 3031 books
Anti-Arminians
The Anglican Reformed Tradition from Charles II to George I
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
This book is a study of the Anglican Reformed tradition (often inaccurately described as Calvinist) after the Restoration. Hampton sets out to revise our picture of the theological world of the later Stuart period. Arguing that the importance of the Reformed theological tradition has frequently been...
Nihil Obstat
Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Nihil Obstat—Latin for "nothing stands in the way"—examines the interplay between religion and politics in East-Central Europe and Russia. While focusing on the postcommunist, late twentieth century, Sabrina P. Ramet discusses developments as far back as the eleventh century to explain...
by Frances Marrow
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Written for the general reader with an interest in how Christianity spread and developed throughout the British Isles, Anno Domini: The Story of Christianity in the British Isles explores the progress of Christianity in all four countries. It also looks at how it contributed greatly to the formation...
Revelation
A Love Letter From God
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Revelation is not a book of gloom and doom. It is a book of hope. A book of reassurance that, no matter how bad things get in the world, God is still in control and still loves us like light shimmering in the soul.
It was written during a time when Christians were losing jobs and homes, friends...
by Lion Books
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This book takes the reader through London and its spiritual history - what its inhabitants believed, what they worshipped, where, when and how; the landmarks, the names, the issues and the arguments. Written in a more or less chronological way, it is interwoven with Albert's own spiritual journey....
White Christ Black Cross
The Emergence of a Black Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Framing the churches’ missionary outreach to Aboriginal people within the reality of frontier violence, government control, segregation, and neglect, this account reveals how Aboriginal people on the missions responded to white Christianity as part of their enforced cultural change. It also tells...
All the Popes
From St. Peter to Francis
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
A book of biographies and images of every pope in the history of the Catholic Church, from Saint Peter to Francis. The volume is enriched with the coats of papal arms, a folding poster with medallion portraits of all the popes, and includes a chronological and alphabetical index.
by Henry Martyn Baird
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This edition features • two complete books • a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes
PREFACE. The period of about half a century with which these volumes are concerned may properly be regarded as the formative age of the Huguenots of France. It included the first planting of...
by Sharan Newman
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
The medieval historian who revealed The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code uncloaks the Templars.
In the year 1119, these noblemen found their calling as protectors of the faithful on a dangerous pilgrimage to newly conquered Jerusalem. Now, historian Sharan Newman elucidates the mysteries...
Protestants
The Faith That Made the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
**On the 500th anniversary of Luther’s theses, a landmark history of the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world. **
"Ryrie writes that his aim 'is to persuade you that we cannot understand the modern age without understanding the dynamic history of Protestant Christianity.'...
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot : A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed
A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
The recent National Geographic special on the Gospel of Judas was a major media event introducing to tens of millions of viewers one of the most important biblical discoveries of modern times. Now a leading historian of the early church Bart Ehrman offers the first comprehensive account of the newly...
by James Aitken Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 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...
Cities of God
The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
How did the preaching of a peasant carpenter from Galilee spark a movement that would grow to include over two billion followers? Who listened to this "good news," and who ignored it? Where did Christianity spread, and how? Based on quantitative data and the latest scholarship, preeminent...
by Earnest A. Wallis Budge
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The Book of the Bee
ed. and tr. by Earnest A. Wallis Budge
A Nestorian Christian sacred history.
"The Book of the Bee is a Nestorian Christian sacred history. According to Budge it was written ca. A.D. 1222 by a Syrian bishop named Solomon (Shelêmôn). There is very little about...