Church History

America was founded on the concept of the innate and inalienable rights of humankind. Many Christians see an echo of the imago Dei--that every huma...

The period covered by this book (AD 381-451) is the first in which the church can be said to have exercised a dominant role in political history. F...

The period covered by this book (AD 381–451) is the first in which the church can be said to have exercised a dominant role in political history. F...

The parish church is a symbol of continuity, a cornerstone of the urban and rural landscape, and a treasure trove often as rich in cultural history...

With the increasing disappearance of stained glass in medieval churches, the surviving wood carvings on church misericords and bench ends are extre...

A great number of monuments dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries can be seen in cathedrals and churches throughout England, and they ...

Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England addresses the rich, complex, and varied nature of...

A choice confronts Christians in every generation: Will we stray from the truth to gain the world’s approval or stay the course at all costs? Here,...

Do Christians have to change their message to meet the needs of today’s world? This question is as pressing for us as it was for J. Gresham Machen ...

Despite the horrors of two world wars, Brunner saw hope for the building of a new civilisation on the ruins of what had been destroyed, arguing tha...

An expert on world religions provides a compelling look into the shape and movement of Christianity's past, present, and future. Charles Farhadian ...

From the beginning, God's mission has been carried out by people sent around the world. From Abraham to Jesus, the thread that weaves its way throu...

A major new introduction to the global history of Christianity, written by one of the world’s leading theologians and author of numerous bestsellin...

Cathedrals are awe-inspiring buildings. Most are grand medieval structures, while others appear simple and unpretentious – yet all were designed to...

And Did Those Feet tells the story of the English Church from its earliest times to 2020. Patrick Whitworth charts both the contribution and shortc...

When it comes to baptism and the Lord's Supper, many Baptists reject the language of sacrament. As a people of the book, the logic goes, Baptists m...

The church today must navigate a rapidly changing world. Amid a divided culture, many Christians face the mounting pressure to compromise their bib...

What is history and how does it impact upon biblical interpretation and theology? Allegorizing History seeks to answer this question by arguing tha...

October 2017 marks five hundred years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg and launched the Protestant Reforma...

In this thought-provoking book, Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and...

Dr Jean Uayan comprehensively weaves the story of six Protestant Chinese churches in the Philippines into the local history of their individual set...

This book is about an idea—namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical region of Palestine—which in turn morphed into a polit...

Weaving social, political, and religious history together with church music and architecture, A People's Church is a clear-eyed look at Anglican hi...

Christianity is not becoming a global religion. It has always been a global religion. The early Christian movement spread from Jerusalem in every d...

The History of the Church through its Buildings takes the reader to meet people who lived through momentous religious changes in the very spaces wh...

The history of the British Isles is incomprehensible without an understanding of the Christian faith that has shaped it. Introduced from abroad whe...

'A Beginner's Guide to Church History' aims to provide an overview of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings in New Testament time...

7 Books That Rocked the Church, by Daniel Crane, explores controversial books throughout history that the Christian church has famously disavowed—a...

The year 1950 saw the height of the postwar religious boom in America and also the depths of the Cold War. It was a year when religious enthusiasm ...

The Bible has played a starring role in American history from our nation’s beginnings. When George Washington was sworn into office as our first pr...