Church History category: 3031 books
Under the Big Top
Big Tent Revivalism and American Culture, 1885-1925
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Under the Big Top examines the immensely popular big tent revivals of turn-of-the-twentieth-century America and develops a new framework for understanding Protestantism in this transformative period of the nation's history. Contemporary critics of the revivalists often depicted them as anxious and...
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...
by Lady Augusta Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Lady Augusta Gregory (15 March 1852 22 May 1932), was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies. Lady Gregory produced a number of books of retellings...
Forbidden Faith
The Secret History of Gnosticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
The success of books such as Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst today for finding the hidden truths of Christianity – truths that may have been lost or buried by institutional religion over the last two millennia.
In...
Her Father’s Daughter
Gender, Power, and Religion in the Early Spanish Kingdoms
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
"In Her Father’s Daughter, Lucy K. Pick looks to a much-neglected aspect of the history of the Spanish kingdoms in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Her book is novel and original."—Teofilo Ruiz, author of A King Travels
"Her Father’s Daughter will contribute to and enrich ongoing discussions...
True Jew
How Jesus Really Ended up on a Roman Cross, How We Still Cover It Up
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Done, done, and done. This book solves three important problems: What role did Jewish leaders play in the death of Jesus (it certainly wasnt to help Rome execute him)? What was Judas role (he certainly was no traitor)? And how does Barabbas fit into this? These problems were solved in the authors...
by Samuel Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity
by Samuel Sharpe
With Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom. "When Christians shall at length acknowledge that many of those doctrines, which together now make up orthodoxy, or the religion of the majority, as distinguished from...
Language for God in Patristic Tradition
Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
Language for God in Patristic Tradition
The Reformation
And the Duty of Keeping its Principles
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
History is the record of God's providence getting Himself honour out of man's sin. It is so in little things as well as great, though we do not see it so plainly. We never get to see quite clearly in spiritual matters. We judge things by their outward seeming. But we know that, if by any means the...
Tried by Fire
The Story of Christianity's First Thousand Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Full of larger-than-life characters, stunning acts of bravery, and heart-rending sacrifice, Tried by Fire narrates the rise and expansion of Christianity from an obscure regional sect to the established faith of the world’s greatest empire with influence extending from India to Ireland, Scandinavia...
A Most Holy War
The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France. A furious Pope Innocent III accused heretics of the crime and called upon all Christians to exterminate heresy between the Garonne and Rhone rivers--a vast region now known as Languedoc--in a great crusade....
by Frederick Thomas Elworthy
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Elworthys The Evil Eye is fascinating look at the evil eye and the concept of one source of evil throughout history and its civilizations. Included in this edition are the original illustrations (nearly 200), which are interspersed throughout the chapters. These illustrations and pictures of artifacts...
Christianity: The Biography
2000 Years of Global History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In Christianity: The Biography Ian Shaw charts the story of Christianity from its birth and infancy among a handful of followers of Jesus Christ, through its years of development into a global religious movement, spanning continents and cultures and transcending educational and social backgrounds.
This...
Saint Augustine on the Resurrection of Christ
Teaching, Rhetoric, and Reception
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Despite an enormous amount of literature on St Augustine of Hippo, this work provides the first examination of what he taught about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Augustine expounded Christ's resurrection in his sermons, letters, Answer to Faustus the Manichean, the City of God, Expositions of...