Church History category: 3031 books
The Catholic Church
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this extraordinary book, the renowned Hans Kung chronicles the Roman Catholic Church’s role as a world power throughout history. He examines great schisms — between East and West, Catholicism and Protestantism — the evolving role of the papacy and the stories of the great reforming popes;...
The Story of Christianity: Volume 1
The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
In this fully revised and updated edition, the lauded church historian Justo González tells the story of Christianity from its fragile infancy to its pervasive dominance at the dawn of the Protestant Reformation. The Story of Christianity, volume 1, relates the dramatic events, the colorful characters,...
The Healing Power of the Santuario de Chimayó
America’s Miraculous Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Winner, 2018 Paul J. Foik Award for Best Book on Catholic History in the American Southwest, presented by the Texas Catholic Historical Society
The remarkable history of the Santuario de Chimayó, the church whose world-renowned healing powers have drawn visitors to its steps for centuries.
Nestled...
A Women’s History of the Christian Church
Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Tracing two thousand years of female leadership, influence, and participation, Elizabeth Gillan Muir examines the various positions women have filled in the church. From the earliest female apostle, and the little known stories of the two Marys – the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene – to the enlightened...
The Last Segregated Hour
The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "kneel-in" to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more than a year and eventually force the church to open its doors to black...
by Jesse A. Hoover
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age examines an apocalypse that never happened, seen through the eyes of a dissident church that no longer exists. Jesse A. Hoover considers Donatists, members of an ecclesiastical communion that for a brief moment formed the majority church in Roman North Africa—modern...
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III
The Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
The five-volume Oxford History of Dissenting Protestant Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in England as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined by diocesan episcopacy, the Book of Common...
The Church in the Modern Age
The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
Given the diversity and complexity of developments in the twentieth century, a history of the Christian Church in the modern period is in some ways the most challenging volume of all to write. But Jeremy Morris succeeds in presenting a coherent account of the Church. He emphasises the changing relationship...
by Eusebius
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Eusebius of Caesarea (c. AD 263339) also called Eusebius Pamphili, was a Roman historian. Little is known of Eusebius since much of his work is lost, and no copies remain of a biography of Eusebius by Acacius. He became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. Together with Pamphilus,...
The Lord’s Work
A History of the Catholic Apostolic Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
The Catholic Apostolic Church combined liturgical worship, charismatic experience, ecumenical vision, and eschatological expectation. Philip Schaff commented that the claims made for its apostles, if true, commanded every Christian's attention. Historians and liturgists alike have been fascinated...
60 People Who Shaped the Church
Learning from Sinners, Saints, Rogues, and Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The Church exists today in its current form because of the people who have come before us. Who were those people? Staid and dour scholars? Cultural movers and shakers? How does their contribution to history affect us today?
From a consummate storyteller comes this collection of inspiring biographical...
by Timothy Paul Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Christian History Made Easy summarizes the most important events in Christian history from the time of Jesus to today in 12 easy-to-read chapters. Christian History Made Easy presents key events and people every Christian should know, along with time lines, worksheets, websites, photos, maps and illustrations....
by Christopher Handy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
"The Seven Churches of Revelation: What Do They Stand For?” is an e-book written from the Book of Revelation. Jesus began by dictating seven letters to seven churches. From Church history these were seven actual Churches in cities that existed in the Roman Province of Asia, now western Turkey....
Forty Years in the Mormon Church
Why I Left It!
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
My reasons for presenting this little volume to the public are:—
First, that because my sermons have gone over the world for many years, millions of them have been published by the Canadian and American press, and the church has constantly advertised them, the consciousness that the world has the...