Church History

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Reflections on the Bible contains excerpts from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's letters, meditations, expositions, sermons, lectures, and seminar papers (tra...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 (...

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...

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 ...

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

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 enthralling story of how Christianity emerged in the first centuries AD

Highlighting thirty significant and sometimes shocking events that shaped the Church, an accomplished author reveals how they continue to influence...

The study of doctrinal truth, apart from its historical background, leads to a truncated theology. There has been too much of this in the past, and...

The way forward requires both old ways and new ways!Step into the world of Wesleyan beliefs and practices with this small, insightful, and impactfu...

In Protestant Relics in Early America, Jamie L. Brummitt upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United State...

While there has been renewed scholarly interest in paratextual features of early Christian manuscripts, that interest has rarely extended to the si...

The German Peasants' Revolts of 1525 were a defining moment both for the Protestant Reformation and the history of European culture. But while the ...

This is the latest in a series of volumes, published about every twenty-five years since 1924, surveying the current state of the academic study of...

The year 2025 represents the 1700-year anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. While the history and theology of Nicaea is thoroughly discussed in ac...

Laura Zucconi introduces the practice and theory of medicine in the ancient world. In contrast to other works that focus heavily on Greece and Rome...

"As our nation has experienced a renewal of reckoning with the reality of slavery in our past and the continued struggle for equality and liberatio...

Today, we see leaders allowing the church to be shaped by culture, rather than boldly sharing the good news of Jesus Christ and all that flows from...

The Protestant Reformation would change not only the Church, but business, culture, commerce and education. In short, it changed everything. In th...

Around the world today the cross is, arguably, the one universally recognized symbol of the Christian faith, but this unifying sign for diverse Chr...

Many volumes deal with that terrible yet glorious period in the history of the Scottish church between the restoration of Charles II and the access...

2020 sees the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower – the ship that took the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World. It’s a foundational even...

For 2,000 years, Catholicism—the largest religion in the world and in the United States—has shaped global history on a scale unequaled by any other...

For 2,000 years, Catholicism—the largest religion in the world and in the United States—has shaped global history on a scale unequaled by any other...

Spurgeon Still Speaks is a comprehensive exploration of Spurgeon s historical, theological, and ministerial context. Its unique approach and strong...

It is broadly understood that John Wesley was the founder of the Methodist movement that spread around the world in the eighteenth century. He is k...