Church History category: 3031 books
by Godfrey Kurth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Having survived 2,000 years of attacks, emperors, kings, traditions and philosophies, and heresies and schisms, the Catholic church and its place in history are the focus of this compelling chronicle. This miracle of constant regeneration, the book explains, is both the mystery of the church for...
Font of Life
Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
No two men were more influential in the early Church than Ambrose, the powerful Bishop of Milan, and Augustine, the philosopher from provincial Africa who would write The Confessions and The City of God. Different in background, they were also extraordinarily different in personality. In Font of Life,...
Catholicism: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself
Teach Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CATHOLICISM, ALL IN ONE PLACE
This is your go-to guide to the Catholic faith. It covers the basics and history of Catholicism, the Catholic Church today and teachings and traditions. It is your comprehensive and essential account of Catholic doctrine, faith and history.
On...
American Catholic
The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
"A cracking good story with a wonderful cast of rogues, ruffians and some remarkably holy and sensible people." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
Before the potato famine ravaged Ireland in the 1840s, the Roman Catholic Church was barely a thread in the American cloth. Twenty...
by Justo L. González
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
New, different readings of church history are finally reflecting Christianity’s deep roots in every culture worldwide. González listens to voices from centers other than the North Atlantic to help us see a different perspective of church history—a global story that includes those previously marginalized—as he offers us a hopeful outlook for the future of world Christianity.
by Edward Burton
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Edward Burton's History of the Christian Church in the First Century is a fascinating history of the early Church, the Apostles, and the spread of Christianity.
by Malcolm McCall
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Modern Church History: whole libraries could be filled with published books on this subject. Yet this present volume has a distinctive feature: it is written from an African perspective. It may indeed be the first book written on this subject explicitly from this perspective. And for the author, it...
100 Year Tribute to First Baptist Church Brandon, Florida
Its Mission and Vision for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This book is unique. There is no other tribute like it. The church is the people. The people who are true Christians are listed in Gods Book in heaven. This church has survived for 100 years because of small groups of people.
There is no church history book that lists over 100 pages of testimonies...
The Rise of Laodicea
The “People’S Choice” Church the Last Dominant, Visible Church Movement Before the Rise of the Antichrist
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The Rise of Laodicea is a Biblical Investigation, of sorts, that seeks to uncover the Prophetic Nature of the first three chapters of the book of Revelation. It seeks to uncover the pre-history that Christ was revealing about future Church History and how it has actually taken place over the centuries....
Transplanted Christianity
Documents illustrating aspects of New Zealand Church history
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1986
Transplanted Christianity is a comprehensive collection of documents detailing the history of the church in New Zealand from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day. Informative introductions and explanations by Allan Davidson and Peter Lineham fill in the context and make...
The Pathfinders
A History of Australian Lutheran Schooling 1919-1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
There have been Lutheran schools in Australia for more than 170 years. This book examines the second 80 years of that history through a series of biographies of the pathfinders, those educational leaders who, on the basis of a rich tradition which had suffered some reversals, forged new directions...
Called to Serve
A History of Nuns in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Winner, Conference on the History of Women Religious (CHWR) Distinguished Book Award
Winner, 2014 Catholic Book Award in History presented by the Catholic Press Association
For many
Americans, nuns and sisters are the face of the Catholic Church. Far more
visible than priests, Catholic...
Byzantine Christianity
A Very Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
‘. . . I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.’
W. B. Yeats
From the foundation of Constantinople in 330 to its fall in 1453, this brief history explores the key components of Byzantine Christianity, including the development of monasticism, icons and iconoclasm,...
by Christian, John T.
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
CHAPTER 1 THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCHES. The Great Commission. A Definition of a Church. A Voluntary Association. A Church Not National or General. The Officers of a Church. The Ordinances. The Proper Subjects of Baptism. The Form of Baptism. The Lord’s Supper. The Ordinances as Symbols. The Churches...