Church History category: 3031 books
The Bible: A History
The Making and Impact of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The Bible has had a profound influence on the diverse cultures of Europe and the British Isles, the Americas, Australia and Africa, and has even left an imprint on Asia. It is a book that has inspired the whole range of human emotion and experience, including some of the finest art and literature....
Reformation
A world in turmoil
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
The Reformation marked a period of profound upheaval - one of the greatest turning points in the history of Christianity - and sent shock waves through the western world. In this book, Andrew Atherstone traces the dramatic and compelling story from the Renaissance to the sixteenth-century wars of...
Israel
God's Ensign to Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Why has such a small nation and its people--Israel and the Jews--been the target of so much hatred, for so long? Today's alarming headlines from the Middle East, and tomorrow's trajectory for the region, cannot truly be understood without knowing its complicated history. Israel has been...
Explorations in Asian Christianity
History, Theology, and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2017
Explorations in Asian Christianity
Ecumenism in Asia
The cruciform nature of Christianity
A missiology of place
The Christian view of time
Global migration
Explorations in Asian Christianity
Sin in the City
Chicago and Revivalism, 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Long before today’s culture wars, the “Third Great Awakening” rocked America. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, evangelists such as Dwight L. Moody and Billy Sunday roused citizens to renounce sin as it manifested in popular culture, moral ambiguity, and the changing...
The Christian Heritage
Problems and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The Christian Heritage: Problems and Prospects delves into the history of the western Christian heritage. Challenges to the Christian heritage, a heritage nourished both by Judaism and by the western classics, have been stimulated by the very success of the way of life that is promoted, a way of life...
Leibniz
Protestant Theologian
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Irena Backus offers the first study in over four hundred years that characterizes Leibniz as both scholar and theologian. She explores his treatment of the key theological issues of his time-predestination, sacred history, the Eucharist, efforts for a union between Lutherans and members of other Christian...
The Cult of the Saints
Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly connection, and their veneration is a fascinating...
The Unitarian Controversy, 1819-1823
Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Originally published in 1987. The dispute between Leonard Woods, an American theologian and well known Calvinist, and Henry Ware, a preacher and theologian influential in the formation of Unitarianism, went on for four years and is reprinted here in its entirety. Although the combatants were concerned...
The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism
True Religion in a Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Evangelicalism appeared as a new pattern of Christian devotion at a moment when the foundations of Anglo-American society were shifting. The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism locates the rise of evangelical religion in relation to movements that we now routinely acknowledge with capital letters: Modernity,...
by Joseph Mausbach
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Mausbachs Catholic Moral Teaching is a defense of Catholic morals in response to attacks by Protestants in Germany around the end of the 19th century. This expansive text includes a table of contents is included for easier navigation.
Preaching Eugenics
Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2004
With our success in mapping the human genome, the possibility of altering our genetic futures has given rise to difficult ethical questions. Although opponents of genetic manipulation frequently raise the specter of eugenics, our contemporary debates about bioethics often take place in a historical...
God's Man for the Gilded Age
D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
At his death on the eve of the 20th century, D.L. Moody was widely recognized as one of the most beloved and important of men in 19th-century America. A Chicago shoe salesman with a fourth grade education, Moody rose from obscurity to become God's man for the Gilded Age. He was the Billy Graham of...
Maximus the Confessor
Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This study contextualizes the achievement of a strategically crucial figure in Byzantium's turbulent seventh century, the monk and theologian Maximus the Confessor (580-662). Building on newer biographical research and a growing international body of scholarship, as well as on fresh examination of...