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...

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

In The China Chronicles, Paul Hattaway draws on more than 30 years’ experience in China and numerous interviews with church leaders to provide ins...

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...

"Thus says the LORD: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your ...

This popular digest of Herman Bavinck's classic four-volume Reformed Dogmatics clearly presents the fundamental doctrines of biblical theology. A p...

Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517 is one of the most famous events of West...

From Justo L. Gonzalez, author of the acclaimed three-volume History of Christian Thought, The Story of Christianity Volume II: The Reformation to ...

Abbess Hild of Whitby was an extraordinary woman living in extraordinary times. In this exquisite translation of the Danish bestselling novel  Hild...

Traditional English rectories and vicarages have been neglected by the Church in the post-war years, but have become highly desirable to property b...

Patrick Whitworth tells the story of the growth of the early Christian community. Eschewing speculation, he provides a clear narrative interspersed...

Since its discovery in the mid-1940s, the Gospel of Thomas has aroused the interest of scholars and general readers alike. Thomas, the Other Gospel...

William Placher and Derek Nelson compile significant passages written by the most important Christian thinkers, from the Reformers of the sixteenth...

William C. Placher and Derek R. Nelson compile significant passages written by the most important Christian thinkers, from the early church through...

A common complaint about Protestant evangelicalism is its apparent disconnection from ancient Christianity. The antiquity and catholicity of Roman ...

Why are Christians from many traditions discovering Anabaptism? What are they finding inspirational and challenging in the Anabaptist vision? How c...

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,...

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...

You've heard his name, you've probably heard your pastor quote him, but who is he really? 250 years later, Jonathan Edwards, America’s consummate p...

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...

In Azusa Street Mission and Revival, Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. brings to bear expertise from decades of focused study in church history to reveal the ca...

The Handbook of Denominations in the United States has been the gold standard for reference works about religious bodies in America. It is a helpfu...