Church History

An introduction to the history of the Christian church in the modern period, beginning with the changing social, cultural, and religious context of...

Commissioned by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry for use in United Methodist doctrine/polity/history courses. From a Sunday scho...

Why does one's concept of the medieval church have a direct bearing on one's attitude toward ecumenism? How was Europe evangelized? Why is it essen...

An introduction to the history of the Christian church from its inception to approximately 600 C.E., this volume seeks to balance the traditional p...

This provocative critique of the uses and abuses of Scripture in the American church shows how liberal (historical-critical) and fundamentalist (li...

A comprehensive one-volume history of American Methodism, tracing the development of a new church in a new nation from its beginnings with the Wesl...

With a historian's precision and a passion for social justice, Alice Knotts shows in this book how the activities of the Methodist women's movement...

Hell Without Fire  has been nominated in the Creative Nonfiction Historical Division category of the 39th Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards....

One of the chief difficulties in studying the history of Christianity is the lack of prior exposure to the subject that students often bring with t...

Just as  Roots  told the story of the African-American experience in the United States,  Breaking the Barriers  illustrates the experience of Afric...

For those desiring to read a concise but accurate historical outline of African Americans in The United Methodist Church, this is the book. For tho...

Dig into the story of Christianity from its origins to today.   Told in easy-to-understand language with helpful timelines and selections from hist...

A treatment of the evolution of Christian thought from the birth of Christ, to the Apostles, to the early church, to the great flowering of Christi...

A treatment of the evolution of Christian thought from the birth of Christ, to the Apostles, to the early church, to the great flowering of Christi...

These letters will ever be precious to all who are sensible of their own, and the Church’s decay and corruptions– The wound and the cure are therei...

Martyn Lloyd-Jones biblically informed insight gave a certain prophetic quality to his ministry; not in the sense that he foretold the future, but ...

This is the remarkable account of the first 60 years or so of the modern church in Korea (mainly North Korea). William Blair (1876–1970), in his fi...

In this attractive and fascinating volume the correspondence is divided in a way which gives insight into the different areas of Lloyd-Jones’ life ...

Welsh Revival, Its Origin and Development by Thomas Phillips and published Banner of Truth Trust. This rare book- published in 1860 as the first co...

It is the duty of all Christians to remember those faithful men from whom they heard the gospel of Christ. For those of Scottish descent no Christi...

Martin Luther said that ‘once the pure and certain Word is taken away, there remains no consolation, no salvation, no hope’. That is where the chur...

Are our civil and religious freedoms under threat? According to some social commentators we are living in very uncertain times in which the freedom...

What was it that transformed the people of England during the latter half of the eighteenth century? J.C. Ryle reveals the answer to that question ...

Writing in 1860 to defend the Ulster Awakening against the attacks of a skeptical press, John Weir, an Irish Presbyterian minister, skilfully weave...

This series presents, for the first time, a connected history of evangelical movements throughout the English-speaking world, from the 1730s to the...

Since its first appearance in 1980, Sketches from Church History by S. M. Houghton has been a firm favourite with those seeking an overview of the ...

First published in 1882, T. M. Lindsay’s Hand Book on the Reformation is still one of the best summaries of the sixteenth century Reformation avail...

The aim of this book is to trace the story of the English Calvinistic Baptists from the death of John Gill in 1771 to that of Charles Haddon Spurge...

What Christian preachers believe about the atonement always affects their presentation of the gospel. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones used to insist that t...

The volume here reprinted provides one of the most readable and popular summaries of the leading preachers of Scotland from the time of the Celtic ...

White’s fascinating biographical sketches of leaders in the Southern Presbyterian Church, from the establishment of Presbyterianism in the American...

Many have taken it for granted that the Calvinistic theology which spread across the western world in the seventeenth century was substantially the...

In all the confusion of the contemporary religious scene, one Church claims to abide changeless in her message and authority. From the first, and t...

Marrying careful historical research to popular and relevant presentation, Revival and Revivalism traces the spiritually epoch-making events of the...

A fascinating study focusing on three significant themes relating to Lloyd-Jones ministry: the nature of true preaching; the importance of full ass...

Robert Philip’s biography is the best account of George Whitfields's life in a single volume. Drawing on the testimony of those who had a personal ...

This Baptist minister and theologian was a truly outstanding man and one of the most attractive personalities in church history. C.H. Spurgeon call...

Chalmers’ Letters give us a fascinating insight into the turbulent decades preceding the 1843 Disruption and a no less fascinating insight into the...

For 300 years a school of evangelical Christianity changed Scotland as a nation. Passing on the evangel of the Reformation, and growing stronger in...

They Were Pilgrims is the story of four remarkable young men who shared a common spiritual aim and ideal. They were David Brainerd, Henry Martyn, R...

This book tells the heroic story of William Carey’s passionate advocacy of world mission. While the details of his missionary work in India are fam...

This book tells the story of the English Reformation. It penetrates behind the facade of political change and acts of Parliament and brings to ligh...

The Life of Irving is an easily read and moving story, told with sympathy and honesty. It also seeks to deal accurately with the extraordinary clai...