Church History category: 3031 books
Ecce Homo (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A Survey of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Published anonymously in 1866, Ecce Homo was greeted by a wave of controversy upon its release. Focusing on the human and not the deity, Seeley examines Christ’s position as the founder and king of a theocratic state, and identifies the profound effect his church had upon the standard and practice of morality.
Comprehending Christian Zionism
Perspectives in Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The question of the Christian Zionism—the religious and political support of the state of Israel—is fiercely debated within theology and the church, as well as in the wider political and social arenas. Examination of the issue is, however, highly relevant and crucial, as it cuts across a wide...
John Owen and English Puritanism
Experiences of Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
John Owen was a leading theologian in seventeenth-century England. Closely associated with the regicide and revolution, he befriended Oliver Cromwell, was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, and became the premier religious statesman of the Interregnum. The restoration of the monarchy...
by Sophie Cartwright
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This authoritative study explores Eustathius of Antioch's theological anthropology, offering insight into one of the most important thinkers of the early Arian controversy. Sophie Cartwright situates Eustathius' thought in relation to the early 'Arian' controversy, the Constaninian Revolution, the...
Christianity in the Second Century
The Case of Tatian
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Tatian is a significant figure in the early Church, his work both representing and revealing his second-century context. This study offers a detailed exploration of his thought. It is also a valuable introduction to the entire period, particularly the key developments it witnessed in Christianity.
Emily...
God Visible
Patristic Christology Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
God Visible: Patristic Christology Reconsidered considers the early development and reception of what is today the most widely professed Christian conception of Christ. The development of this doctrine admits of wide variations in expression, understanding, and interpretation that are as striking...
Beyond Gnosticism
Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2008
Valentinus was a popular, influential, and controversial early Christian teacher. His school flourished in the second and third centuries C.E. Yet because his followers ascribed the creation of the visible world not to a supreme God but to an inferior and ignorant Creator-God, they were from early...
Signs of Forgiveness, Paths of Conversion, Practice of Penance
A Reform that Challenges All
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This volume presents contributions of the Catholic-Lutheran International Conference held at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome in 2016. The scholars were invited to reflect together on the questions of forgiveness, conversion and penance in the context of the ecumenical dialogue that...
The Annotated Luther
Christian Life in the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This volume (volume 5) features Luther's writings that intersect church and state, faith and life lived as a follower of Christ. His insights regarding marriage, trade, public education, war and are articulated. His theological and biblical insights also colored the way he spoke of the "Jews"...
by Charles Kingsley
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Charles Kingsley was one of the most influential members of the Church of England during the 19th century, and he wrote a number of Christian books that continue to be read by people of all denominations today.
Anabaptism In Outline
Selected Primary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Walter Klaassen gathered and translated this comprehensive book of selections drawn from writings and statements of 37 sixteenth-century Anabaptists. The selections are arranged under topics such as Baptism; Church; Nonresistance; Jesus the Word; Government; Cross, Suffering, and Discipleship; and Relations to Other Christians.
by James M. Garretson
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Samuel Miller (17691850) played an integral part in founding Princeton Theological Seminary, which became one of the most influential training grounds for Presbyterian ministers in the nineteenth century. While Miller is most commonly remembered for his writings on church office, he also played a significant...
The Imposing Preacher
Samuel DeWitt Proctor and Black Public Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
As a distinguished pastor, educator, and public servant, Samuel DeWitt Proctor made it his mission to serve American life by fighting racism. In The Imposing Preacher, Adam Bond shows how Proctor, as the product of a prophetic black church tradition, a social gospel-laced liberal Protestantism, and...
Holy Jumpers
Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era America
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
In this groundbreaking book, William Kostlevy presents a fascinating study of the Metropolitan Church Association (MCA), a religious community founded in Chicago in the early 1890s. The MCA was one of the most controversial societies of the era. Its members were called "jumpers" because of their acrobatic...