Church History category: 3031 books
by Philip Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The legend of Saint Patrick is irresistibly captivating-he drove the snakes out of Ireland, battled the druids, and used the three-leaf Shamrock to convert the pagan Irish to belief in the Christian Trinity. Yet, as so often happens, these stories are mere myths that fold under closer scrutiny. Snakes...
by Beverly Carradine
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
This volume is a forty-three chapter behemoth detailing Carradine's trip through the Holy Land. It is rich with history and Biblical wisdom and truth. This is hardly a mere vacationer's journal!
About the author:
Beverly Francis Carradine (April 4, 1848 – April 22,...
La ruine de Rome
édition intégrale
Language: French
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Cit. : « Ce que Rome a souffert, un homme l'avait souffert avant elle. Et voyez quel est cet homme “ le Roi des rois et le Seigneur des seigneurs ”, lié, garrotté, flagellé, couvert de tous les outrages, suspendu à une croix, et y rendant le dernier soupir. Crucifiez Rome avec Jésus-Christ...
by David Bentley Hart
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Currently it is fashionable to be devoutly undevout. Religion’s most passionate antagonists—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and others—have publishers competing eagerly to market their various denunciations of religion, monotheism, Christianity, and Roman Catholicism....
Thorns in the Flesh
Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The literature of late ancient Christianity is rich both in saints who lead lives of almost Edenic health and in saints who court and endure horrifying diseases. In such narratives, health and illness might signify the sanctity of the ascetic, or invite consideration of a broader theology of illness....
The Spalding Enigma
Investigating the Mysterious Origin of The Book of Mormon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Expanded Scholars' Edition
Where did The Book of Mormon come from? Who was Solomon Spalding and what connection did his manuscript have with Joseph Smith? To answer these questions, this book critically examines key historical documents, personal testimonies, and records of 19th-century...
Predestination
The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Winner of the Christianity Today 2010 Book Award for History/Biography, and praised in Christian Century as "witty...erudite...masterful," this groundbreaking history, the first of its kind, shows that far from being only about the age-old riddle of divine sovereignty versus human free will,...
The Sign
The Shroud of Turin and the Birth of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Christianity was born nearly two thousand years ago in ancient Palestine. It has shaped the course of human history. Yet historians still cannot say how it really began. How did a first-century Jew called Jesus manage to spark a new religion?
It is one of the biggest and most profound of all...
The Stone-Campbell Movement
A Global Histroy
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The Stone-Campbell Movement: A Global History tells the story of Christians from around the globe and across time who have sought to witness faithfully to the gospel of reconciliation. Transcending theological differences by drawing from all the major streams of the movement, this foundational book...
Globalization and Orthodox Christianity
The Transformations of a Religious Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
With approximately 200 to 300 million adherents worldwide, Orthodox Christianity is among the largest branches of Christianity, yet it remains relatively understudied. This book examines the rich and complex entanglements between Orthodox Christianity and globalization, offering a substantive contribution...
Boundless Salvation
The Shorter Writings of William Booth
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
William Booth (1829–1912) is remembered for the major role he played in founding the Salvation Army, an evangelical organization now operating in more than 120 countries. Few people, however, are aware of the fact that Booth was also a prolific author. During his long lifetime he wrote countless...
The Bible's Cutting Room Floor
The Holy Scriptures Missing from Your Bible
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The Bible you usually read is not the complete story. Some holy writings were left out for political or theological reasons, others simply because of the physical restrictions of ancient bookmaking technology. At times, the compilers of the Bible skipped information that they assumed everyone knew....
Christianity: The First 400 years
The forging of a world faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The first 400 years after the death of Christ saw huge developments and changes in the emerging faith. Christianity spread from Jerusalem to much of the known world; it became the official religion of the British empire; its key texts were written and its core ideas and beliefs were shaped and formalized....
The Two Reformations
The Journey from the Last Days to the New World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this last collection of his vital, controversial, and accessible writings, Heiko A. Oberman seeks to liberate and broaden our understanding of the European Reformation, from its origins in medieval philosophy and theology through the Puritan settlers who brought Calvin’s vision to the New World....