Church History

Easily see over 250 events from Christian church history at a glance, starting at the birth of Jesus and the Early Church to present day! The Basic...

See how the thread of orthodoxy runs throughout the history of the church – even in the thousand years known as the “Dark Ages”. If you study chur...

From the arrival of the first Christians in the second century to the Protestant Reformation and beyond, What Has Christianity Ever Done for Scotla...

2,000 years of Church History at a Glance. Christian History Time Line includes brief explanations of more than 200 key people and events that all ...

The Church was following the Words of men rather than the Word of God but brave men read God’s Word and were saved from their sins. They fought for...

By AD 100, all the original disciples had died and a new generation of preachers, teachers, and scholars had taken on the responsibility to preach,...

The Protestant Reformers of the sixteenth century regained, retold, and relied on the gospel of grace — and we can learn from their tragedies and t...

For many Christians, our understanding of the history of the church universal jumps straight from what we read in the New Testament to a basic unde...

These days many evangelicals are exploring the more sacramental, liturgical, and historically-conscious church traditions, including Roman Catholic...

Do people have free will or does God predestine them to be saved? If God elects us, is there any reason to spread the Gospel? Can a person lose his...

Throughout much of the world today, the church seems in retreat. Cowed by our culture, Christians fear sticking out and looking odd. What we need, ...

During the three centuries before the conversion of the emperor Constantine, the Christian church grew in the Roman Empire. It grew despite disince...

How Christianity Grew from a Dozen Disciples to a Worldwide Movement. At the beginning of the first century, a teacher named Jesus of Nazareth shoo...

This concise guide to the Reformation provides a time line marking of key people and events of this important time in the history of the church. Ga...

When they discover Celtic spirituality, many Christians feel that in some sense they have come home. As they begin to explore the people and places...

Sometimes one word is all that stands between the truth and a lie, between life and death. In the Reformation, that word was sola, "alone." At a ti...

Although the 500th anniversary celebration of the Reformation of 1517 is over, ministry in the church continues. In having looked to the past, we n...

“Here is rock: all else is sand,” was J.C. Ryle’s description of the Bible in the 18th century. Whether the challenge has been tradition or reason...

From facing wild beasts in the arena to governing the Roman Empire, Christian women--as preachers and philosophers, martyrs and empresses, virgins ...

Recharge. Reboot. Reorder. Whatever you want to call it, we need a process that helps us continuously renew our relationship with God so that we do...

Islam is not the only religion that has sought to take political power, or believed that it should be possible to create a theocracy. In the 17th c...

Who were the men and women who laid the foundation of The General Council of the Assemblies of God? They were ordinary people, many with little or ...

This series of messages on the life of the church, the body of Christ serves as a follow-up companion volume to "But We See Jesus"; Messages on the...

Set in the turbulent years of Henry VIII and the English Reformation, this is a story of sacrifice, exile, secret agents, betrayal and martyrdom. B...

Luther the Expositor is an introduction to Luther's writings dealing with his exegetical principles and practices, illustrated by a case study of t...

Wesley’s message and his faith continue to speak to 21st-century Christians—calling for a revival of our hearts and souls so that our world might b...

The writings of the Puritans, states Robert P. Martin in his preface, ‘are a rich banquet table loaded with solid nourishment for God’s people’. An...

When you read the Bible, you join an ancient conversation that spans centuries and cultures to unite Christians of every era in our one faith hande...

In the sixteenth century Rome charged the Reformers with novelty, as if they were heretics departing from the catholic (universal) church. But the ...

How do religious texts impact the way communities of faith understand themselves? In The World of Jesus and the Early Church: Identity and Interpre...

Today, Martin Luther is known as the man who stood against popes and emperors in defense of the gospel. What drove this lone German monk to defy th...

Embracing poetic works by Chaucer, Lydgate and Hoccleve, prose writings on philosophy, contemplation and bibliophily, key service books for the cle...

William Perkins and the Making of Protestant England presents a new interpretation of the theology and historical significance of William Perkins (...

One of the key questions the Protestant Reformation asked and answered was: how does a person get right with God? In approaching this question, the...

The Rule of St Benedict, which dates from the sixth century, is the foundation of monasticism, one of the oldest continuing institutions in all of ...

Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers--pervades North American Chr...

In 1999, a small town on the south coast of England became the birthplace of the remarkable, accidental, international movement known as 24-7 Praye...

The first American presbytery was founded in 1706. In the following years, Presbyterians grew to form one of the largest and most eminent denominat...

Enter God’s Story of Faithfulness to His People The Christian faith extends beyond our personal experiences, our individual churches, and far beyon...

In This Follow-Up to Gospel People, Michael Reeves Calls Evangelicals Away from Pharisaism to True Reformation Scripture warns believers of hypocri...

Rick Renner's book Dressed To Kill is considered by many to be a true classic on the subject of scriptural warfare. The original version, which sol...

Many Christians believe that church history belongs in the past. Pastor Dayton Hartman disagrees. He argues that church history is not old news, bu...

This unprecedented work is the first one-volume study of the history of Christianity in Africa. Written by Elizabeth Isichei, a leading scholar in ...

We may associate a number of images with the Eastern Orthodox church û ornate church buildings, services with candles and incense, men wearing embe...

Leonardo De Chirico traces and evaluates early and medieval church theological developments, introducing them to an evangelical readership who may ...

Thirteen composers.Thirteen biographies of foundational Lutheran musicians.Portraits in American Lutheran Sacred Music 1847—1947 is the culmination...