Church History

A charming and witty history of the quirky - but widely-practiced craft of embroidering kneeler cushions'A treasure of a collection' Amber Butchart...

At some point, every man or woman comes face-to-face with the brutal consequences of their own vanity, the crippling ridicule of their own insecuri...

Steeped in rich, though often personally costly history, the Africa Inland Church has been spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ to the peoples o...

Designed as an undergraduate textbook, and shaped by needs of both Muslim and Christian students across Africa, this resource provides a thorough i...

Why do certain groups and individuals seek to do harm in the name of God? While studies often claim to hold the key to this frightening phenomenon,...

The big picture is well-known: over the last century, religion in Britain has lost power, popularity, and plausibility. Here, Steve Bruce charts th...

Who owns Christian history? Whose ancestors are Augustine, Anselm and Aquinas? "Ancestral Feeling" asks whether a Christian religious ancestry is c...

The history of the church is filled with stories. Stories of triumph, stories of defeat, stories of joy, and stories of sorrow. These stories are a...

'On the walls of buildings . . . on leather and papyrus, Israelites living under the monarchy (1000-587 B.C.E.) penned or scratched texts ranging f...

Worship of the triune God has always stood at the center of the Christian life. That was certainly the case during the sixteenth-century Reformatio...

Five hundred years later, the Reformation still has important things to say. In this clear, incisive and accessible survey, Michael Reeves and Tim ...

London's many cemeteries, churches and graveyards are the last resting places of a multitude of important people from many different walks of life....

Bruce Ware, Darryl Hart, John MacArthur, and others join the editors in calling evangelicals to recover their Reformation roots. Too many evangelic...

The wisdom of tribal peoples has often been overlooked, both within the church and outside of it. However as the ideologies of consumerism, free ma...

The Reformation transformed England forever. From peasants in the lanes and fields to the court of Henry VIII, no life was left untouched as the Ro...

The generations of French Protestants who maintained their faith following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) provided a rich theological...

The Story of the Church gives an accessible and concise survey of the history of the Christian church, from the first century to the twenty-first. ...

Mission is constantly innovating. As contexts change, so too does the work of the church. Today, in the face of a rapidly changing world and a g...

This book argues for the inseparability of classical Hellenism from the Greek patristic tradition from a distinctly Eastern Orthodox perspective. P...

Descending into the darkness of a long-abandoned hermit's cave, wading naked into an icy sea to pray, spending the night on a sacred mountain, Nick...

Many recognise Everett Ferguson as the definitive voice on early Christianity, patristic writing and ecclesiology. The Early Church at Work and Wor...

This introductory study is written from a new religious and theological studies perspective. Building on latest research in history and archaeology...

Are Christians meant to experience suffering? This question has long been a contentious one within the church. Christ is risen, the kingdom of heav...

An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically--up to the present day--worked against racial justice. And a call for urgen...

The Georgian Church was, together with the State, a 'temporal pillar' of the fabric of the nation. The Church occupied an honoured place in politic...

In this book we are invited to travelback in time to the year AD 45 and tothe city of Antioch, an importanttrade, commercial and culturalcentre, bu...

The essays in The Beauty and Glory of the Reformation call you to be grateful to God and to grow in appreciation for the rich biblical, doctrinal, ...

The Adorable Trinity investigates the little–known yet fascinating conflict between Trinitarianism and Unitarianism in the nineteenth century Ameri...

This is the account of the most exciting story in all of human history. Something truly remarkable occurred when Jesus Christ rose from the dead an...

Spurgeon and the Poor is an fascinating study into the life and ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, exploring his understanding of the place of be...

In the first decades after Christ a small movement from the Middle East rapidly grew to become an empire-wide phenomenon. Soon there were establish...

When the Free Church broke from the Church of Scotland in 1843 they sought money and support from inside and outside Scotland. A delegation which w...

Many today may be discouraged by the condition of Christianity in Scotland, while unaware of its powerful legacy. Following on from Glory in the Gl...

In the early seventeenth century, the direction of the Reformed faith hung in the balance. A group called the Remonstrants, followers of Jacobus Ar...

Traces the historical development of the Western mind through ten eras—exploring the fundamental ideas that revolutionized the way in which people ...

Dr Munyenyembe skillfully explores both historic and contemporary challenges to the unity of the CCAP, and raises the question of whether the CCAP ...

This volume of essays offers a detailed account of the impact of evangelical millennialism in nineteenth century Britain and Ireland and includes a...

The first thing that Catholic religious orders did when they arrived in a town to establish a new community was to plant the crossÑto erect a large...

Eighty years ago, Walter Bauer promulgated a bold and provocative thesis about early Christianity. He argued that many forms of Christianity starte...

Beginning as a renewal movement within Anglicanism in the eighteenth century, Methodism had become the largest Protestant denomination in the USA i...

It was the Roman writer Tertullian who said, ‘The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church’. From its origins, martyrdom has had a particular...

A fascinating glimpse into the world of Medieval Monasticism. Durham Cathedral is one of the most complete sets of monastic buildings in Europe, ho...

Who would have guessed that something as austere as Calvinism would become a hot topic in today's postmodern culture? At the five hundredth anniver...