Church History

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

Christian historian Philip Quenby investigates the ideas and motivations that brought the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World, setting them alongside ...

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...

Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art. Before the printing press was invented, books w...

Christianity has been central to the lives of the people of Britain and Ireland for almost 2,000 years. It has given us laws, customs, traditions a...

Christianity has been central to the lives of the people of Britain and Ireland for almost 2,000 years. It has given us laws, customs, tradition...

The history of Christian theology is in large part a history of heresies, because Jesus and the claims he made . . . seemed incredible," writes the...

Be careful before starting to read any of Hattaway’s works: You may not be able to put the book down! His energetic, vivid, and fast-moving narrati...

Guizhou, which means ‘Precious State’, is home to more than 80 distinct tribes among the province’s 35 million people. God has powerfully reached s...

This is the second of a series of up to 20 volumes focusing on the modern history of the church in China. The books will, for the most part, cover ...

An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish c...

When the Berlin Wall came down, the files of the East German secret police, the much-dreaded Stasi, were opened and read. And among the shocking st...

"I was filled with a pining desire to see Christ's own words in the Bible. . . . I got along to the window where my Bible was and I opened it and ....

Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History is one of the classics of early Christianity and of equal stature with the works of Flavius Josephus. Eusebius chr...

33 fascinating objects. 1 amazing story. Join author and pastor Tim Challies as he embarks on a three-year journey spanning multiple continents and...

The Reformation was a time of tremendous upheaval, renewal, and vitality in the life of the church. The challenge to maintain and develop faithful ...

This selection of writings from the most important moments in the history of Christianity has become established as a classic reference work, provi...

A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and inste...

The Church has sadly never been far from controversy and conflict, exhibiting its all-too-human nature. The greatest and most fundamental dissensio...

A study of Machen’s thought and career that says much about the issues that unsettled mainstream Protestantism’s hold on American intellectual and ...

During the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, the Christian Church will take centre stage once again, as the established religion in...

How the Bible came to be translated into English makes a fascinating chapter in our national history. Second only to William Tyndale in that story ...

This book describes how nineteenth-century decorative encaustic tiles derived from medieval church tiles, how they were made, the designers and man...

Bruce Shelley's classic history of the church brings the story of global Christianity into the twenty-first century. Like a skilled screenwriter, S...

The font is perhaps the most important part of any church. For centuries, no infant in the parish was thought to be saved from damnation until chri...

In churches and cathedrals across Britain, tucked away among ordinary items such as pews, screens and pulpits, sit a plethora of fascinating and un...

Since the medieval period, mechanical clocks located in churches across Britain have told the time to local communities, or displayed the phases of...

Major Schisms in the First Sixteen Centuries · Development of Church Government · Orthodoxy and Unitarianism Compared · Education in Puritan Englan...

Ring-headed crosses of impressive height and intricate design were first erected in Iona and Ireland from the eighth century onwards. This book dea...

Durham Cathedral was built as the Shrine of St Cuthbert. Without Cuthbert, this great Norman edifice would not exist, and neither would the castle ...

During the sixteenth century, many Reformers echoed Erasmus's claim that the message of the Scriptures was clear, could be understood by even the l...

Sir John Betjeman was born at the start of the twentieth century, and lived to become Poet Laureate, an accomplished writer and campaigner, and som...

For centuries, Baptists have published confessions of faith as formal statements of their beliefs. Chief among these is the Second London Baptist C...

Many people think of history as merely the past—or at most, information about the past. But the real work of a historian is to listen to the voices...

This classic work includes extensive essays on the Roman political system and its leaders, the political and religious parties of Judaism, messiani...

A Book of the Year for The Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History MagazineJudge not, lest ye be judged. This timeless wisdom has guided the Anglican...

Can Christian identity and national identity be reconciled? For Christians in China, this question is particularly fraught. While Sinicization offe...

‘In one six-week period in November and December, more than four hundred church buildings were bulldozed to the ground.’ Zhejiang, a prosperous ...