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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

“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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians is a remarkable story of suppression, secrecy and survival in the face of human cruelty and GodÆs apparent s...

Ian Shaw charts the story of Christianity from its birth and infancy among a handful of followers of Jesus Christ, through its years of development...

Christianity has played a central role in world history, for better or worse, but beyond the life of Jesus many people know little of this story. G...

In this book, Bruce W. Winter maps out the role and obligations of Christians as benefactors and citizens in their society. Winter's scholarly insi...

Mary, Queen of Scots: naïve, selfish, oblivious and self-indulgent fool who divided her nation and brought it to the brink of disaster? Or Mary, Q...

"¢ The second book in the Truth or Lies series, following the success of Mary Queen of Scots. "¢ Completely original, unique approach - 12 myths ex...

This book offers a succinct yet thorough introduction to 131 of the most intriguing, courageous, inspiring Christians who ever lived. It tells how ...

This translation of the New Testament into English from its original Greek was printed in Germany in 1534 and smuggled back into England. It theref...

The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is the largest conservative, evangelical Presbyterian denomination in North America. And yet ministers, el...

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...

J C Ryle’s abiding hope for Light From Old Times is that our souls will be stirred to prayer and action by the great testimonies of Reformers and P...

A great deal of confusion attends the process of sanctification in the church today. The reformer John Calvin, however, had a clear understanding o...

The book is a collection of essays from the International Conference of Baptist Studies VI that was held at Southeastern Baptist Theological Semina...

‘It has been my endeavour to handle my theme in a free and familiar fashion so as to avoid a coldly technical and stiff treatment of it, and to mak...

This convenient volume offers a panoramic view of the forces and personalities that shaped The United Methodist Church in the United States. Three ...

Church history is not about names, dates, and facts. It is about the flesh and blood people of God and the life and death issues that have shaped t...

An introduction to the history of the Christian church in the modern period, beginning with the changing social, cultural, and religious context of...

Commissioned by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry for use in United Methodist doctrine/polity/history courses. From a Sunday scho...

Why does one's concept of the medieval church have a direct bearing on one's attitude toward ecumenism? How was Europe evangelized? Why is it essen...

An introduction to the history of the Christian church from its inception to approximately 600 C.E., this volume seeks to balance the traditional p...

This provocative critique of the uses and abuses of Scripture in the American church shows how liberal (historical-critical) and fundamentalist (li...