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...

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...

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...

“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...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Embark on a pilgrimage through the great cathedrals of the world. Gernot Candolini and Jennifer Brandon invite readers to experience some of the ex...

Poems of pain and forgiveness, for those who struggle to find healing from a childhood marked by addictionTo Shatter Glass is essentially a memoir ...

Discover how icons can become part of your own life of prayer.Encounter twelve of the world’s most significant Orthodox icons with one of today’s b...

In 1563, John Foxe began a memorial of martyrs starting with Stephen, the first to die for the cause of Christ, and ending with the most recent mar...

For American Claire Stewart, joining the French Resistance sounded as romantic as the storylines she hopes will one day grace the novels she wants ...

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

What caused Luther, Calvin, and others to set in motion the Reformation, and what are the consequences, both then and now? Is the 500-year-old brea...

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...

Did Martin Luther wield his hammer on the Wittenberg church door on October 31, 1517? Did he even post the Ninety-five Theses at all? This collecti...

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

The Catholic Church has always had regard for the spiritual and pastoral welfare of those in the military and for centuries priests have ministered...

An expansive, substantive history of the Wesleyan tradition in the United States, Doctrine, Spirit, and Discipline offers a broad survey of the Met...

Our Trespasses uncovers how race, geography, policy, and religion have created haunted landscapes in Charlotte, North Carolina, and throughout the ...

Martin Luther is among those most influential and well-known people ever to live. But who was he and what did he want? What significance does he ha...

This book is the eighth in Paul Hattaway’s series The China Chronicles. In the series, he draws on more than thirty-five years of experience in Chi...

Shaanxi is the cradle of Chinese civilization, where the compass, paper, printing, and gunpowder were invented. It was the southern terminus of the...

In this opening volume to his Formation of Christian Theology series, John Behr looks at the implications formed out of Jesus' question of "Who do ...

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...

A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American ChristianityThe history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people d...

A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American ChristianityThe history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people d...

The Lord shepherds me, and nothing will be lacking for me. In a place of tender grass, there he causes me to encamp.In his reading of Psalm 23, ear...

In the first volume of his magisterial intellectual history, Michael Horton locates the roots of the contemporary “spiritual but not religious” mov...

James L. Gorman’s fresh edition of Richard T. Hughes’s classic work, Reviving the Ancient Faith, illuminates the Church of Christ movement started ...

Stephen O. Presley shows us how to keep faith in a secular culture, using the early church as a model. Amid a pagan culture that regarded their fai...

Voices of the Martyrs, A.D. 34 - A.D. 203 covers the earliest period of church history. Though we will never know how many have given their lives f...

A fine introduction to Puritan preaching, this little book also recalls one of the great turning points in English Christianity—for these sermons w...

"An Anglican curate was brought to a place of desperation. He was aware that he didn’t have the answers to the major spiritual needs that surrounde...

The extraordinary story of the birth of the Scottish mission to the Jews In the middle of the nineteenth century, God began to lay on the hearts of...

This practical book challenges the Church to be more pro-active in its warfare with Satan and his spiritual kingdom of darkness. The author believe...

During the Reformation of the sixteenth century, the role of the Bible in both Protestant and Roman Catholic branches of western Christianity was v...

An entertaining history of the soundtrack of American evangelical Christianity Few things frightened conservative white Protestant parents of the ...

A major new history of one of the world's holiest of cities, based on the most recent archaeological discoveries First settled five thousand years...

Roman Catholic public schools in England emerged from the early 1800s as part of the wider educational mission of a Catholic church seeking to supp...

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...

Critical theory has many faces; its complexities and nuances present a challenge to those seeking to engage with its thought. In order to understan...

In Christian History Volume 2: From the Reformation to the Present, Thomas S. Kidd presents a global history of the Christian church in the modern ...

Jon M Sweeney, author of numerous popular books on St Francis as well as the recent bestseller The Pope Who Quit, offers a surprising new look at t...

In 'The Amazing Story of Pakistan’s Christians,' Michael Wakely delivers a compelling narrative that traverses the rich tapestry of Pakistani Chris...

Bridget of Sweden was one of the best-travelled women of the Middle Ages. From her native Sweden, she went to Rome and later to the Holy Land. Luc...

The first monograph to relate confessional subscription to the practice of conscience during the Reformation, sets Calvin and his contemporaries ag...

Gives a rare exploration of Bavinck’s engagement with the nineteenth-century turn to history, includes a number of Bavinck’s previouslyunpublished ...