Church History category: 3031 books
The Psychedelic Gospels
The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Reveals evidence of visionary plants in Christianity and the life of Jesus found in medieval art and biblical scripture--hidden in plain sight for centuries
• Follows the authors’ anthropological adventure discovering sacred mushroom images in European and Middle Eastern churches, including...
by Charles Spurgeon
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers". Spurgeon was to 19th century England what D. L Moody...
by G W Greene
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Professor Greene, for many years consul of the United States at Rome during the early 19th century brings us a short history of the Catacombs of Rome.
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
All hail to the man who discovered America and placed it in the map. If it weren’t for Christopher Columbus, America wouldn’t be known throughout the world. Do you know how he made such astonishing discovery? This book tells his tale, in all facts and no fiction. Secure a copy today!
by Louise A. Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Martin Luther's son has a problem. What should young Hans Luther do when he grows up? How can he ever do anything important when he is constantly overshadowed by his famous father? Gradually he discovers who he is and how God wants him to live.Through Hans' eyes 9-to-14 year olds will learn to know...
Signs and Mysteries
Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Imagine the dangerous life of an early Christian. You've embraced your newfound faith in Christ but fear the risk of persecution or death at the hands of the pagans living around you. Then a trusted friend tells you about some of Jesus' followers who secretly meet. He whispers into your ear, "Look for...
The Flower of Paradise
Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
There is a striking similarity between Marian devotional songs and secular love songs of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Two disparate genres--one sacred, the other secular; one Latin, the other vernacular--both praise an idealized, impossibly virtuous woman. Each does so through highly stylized...
Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia
Martyrdom and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
It is widely believed that the Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity politicized religious allegiances, dividing the Christian Roman Empire from the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire and leading to the persecution of Christians in Persia. This account, however, is based on Greek ecclesiastical...
Dominion
How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
A historian of antiquity shows how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination
Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable. It was this that rendered it so suitable a punishment for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe...
by Catherine M. Chin
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Between the years 350 and 500 a large body of Latin artes grammaticae emerged, educational texts outlining the study of Latin grammar and attempting a systematic discussion of correct Latin usage. These texts—the most complete of which are attributed to Donatus, Charisius, Servius, Diomedes, Pompeius,...
Calvin and Servetus: The Reformers Share in the Trial of Michael Servetus
Historically Ascertained from the French: with notes and additions
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Perhaps no criminal trial ever gave occasion to such acrimonious censures as that of Michael Servetus. Men of every rank, and every variety of opinion, have long united in condemning the transaction; and perhaps more has been argued or declaimed upon this single topic than upon all the hecatombs of...
Blasphemy in the Christian World
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, David Nash outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept - from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred and individual religious identity. Investigating its appearance in speech, literature, popular...
Katharina and Martin Luther
The Radical Marriage of a Runaway Nun and a Renegade Monk
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Their revolutionary marriage was arguably one of the most scandalous and intriguing in history. Yet five centuries later, we still know little about Martin and Katharina Luther's life as husband and wife. Until now.
Against all odds, the unlikely union worked, over time blossoming into the...
by Charles Spurgeon
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers". Spurgeon was to 19th century England what D. L Moody...