Church History category: 3031 books
The View From Mars Hill
Christianity in the Landscape of World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2005
What are Christians to make of religious diversity? Are other religions simply wrong? Is this great multiplicity something to appreciate and foster? Is there any way to judge whether one religion is better than another, or are all equally good options? What has brought about such a wealth of diversity...
Muslim-Christian Encounters (Routledge Revivals)
Perceptions and Misperceptions
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First published in 1991, this title explores the myths and misperceptions that have underpinned Muslim-Christian relations throughout history, and which endure to the current day. William Montgomery Watt describes how the myths originated and developed, and argues that both Muslims and Christians...
TIME-LIFE The Life of Jesus
How His Lessons, Miracles and Devotion Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
From his early years, his teachings and miracles, to his death, burial, and resurrection, TIME-LIFE explores the life of Jesus.
Mixed Blessings
Indigenous Encounters with Christianity in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Scholars in a range of fields interested in Indigenous history, Native-newcomer relations, religious and missionary studies, and Canadian studies will welcome this fresh exploration of Indigenous peoples and Christianity.
Moral Reconstruction
Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting. It forced Mormons to abandon polygamy, attacked interstate prostitution, made narcotics contraband, and stopped the manufacture and sale of alcohol. Gaines Foster explores the force...
Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru
Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
A central tenet of Catholic religious practice, confession relies upon the use of language between the penitent and his or her confessor. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as Spain colonized the Quechua-speaking Andean world, the communication of religious beliefs and practices—especially...
The Jesus Discovery
The Resurrection Tomb that Reveals the Birth of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The Jesus Discovery shows how a recent major archeological discovery in Jerusalem is revolutionizing our understanding of Jesus and the earliest years of Christianity.
The Jesus Discovery is the story of a stunning new discovery that provides the first physical evidence of Christians in Jerusalem...
The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity
A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 1996
While historians of Christianity have generally acknowledged some degree of Germanic influence in the development of early medieval Christianity, Russell goes further, arguing for a fundamental Germanic reinterpretation of Christianity. This first full-scale treatment of the subject follows a truly...
Apostles of Reason
The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Evangelical Christianity is a paradox. Evangelicals are radically individualist, but devoted to community and family. They believe in the transformative power of a personal relationship with God, but are wary of religious enthusiasm. They are deeply skeptical of secular reason, but eager to find scientific...
The Farmerfield Mission
A Christian Community in South Africa, 1838-2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The Farmerfield Mission explores the history of a residential Christian community in South Africa established for Africans in 1838 by Methodist missionaries, destroyed in 1962 by the apartheid government when it was zoned as an exclusive area for white occupation, and returned to the descendants of the community under South Africa's land reform program in 1999.
The Truth
The Biggest Cover-Up in History
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
The Grail is the most sought after artefact in human history. For two thousand years we have searched for it. We stole, cheated, and killed for it. We started wars in pursuit of its powers. The hunt for the Grail never diminished over the ages but rather intensified. In spite of the continued quest...
by Terry M. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
“God’s Amazing Grace: Reconciling Four Centuries of African American Marriages and Families is an insightful study that will be welcomed by thoughtful practitioners and all who ponder the African American family’s complexity. Readers familiar with the deep, rich reservoir of African American...
For Salvation's Sake
Provincial Loyalty, Personal Religion, and Epigraphic Production in the Roman and Late Antique Near East
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This book breaks new ground in the study of cultural unity in the Near East from pre-Roman to early Islamic times (first century BC - eighth century AD). Based on a thorough study of nearly 400 Greek and Latin inscriptions from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, this book shows how the formula 'for...
by Lowell Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
The tumultuous climate of early modern England had a profound effect on its Catholic population's domestic life, social customs, literary inventions, and political arguments. Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism explores the broad spectrum of the early modern English Catholic experience,...