Church History

Harvey Cox describes Pentecostalism as 'the fascinating spiritual child of our time' that has the potential, at the global scale, to contribute to ...

For eighteen years as Rylands Professor of New Testament Exegesis in the University of Manchester, F. F. Bruce delivered lectures on The Missionary...

The church is political. Theologians have been debating this claim for years. Liberationists, Anabaptists, Augustinians, neo-Calvinists, Radical O...

In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians is a remarkable story of suppression, secrecy and survival in the face of human cruelty and GodÆs apparent s...

Ian Shaw charts the story of Christianity from its birth and infancy among a handful of followers of Jesus Christ, through its years of development...

Christianity has played a central role in world history, for better or worse, but beyond the life of Jesus many people know little of this story. G...

In this book, Bruce W. Winter maps out the role and obligations of Christians as benefactors and citizens in their society. Winter's scholarly insi...

Mary, Queen of Scots: naïve, selfish, oblivious and self-indulgent fool who divided her nation and brought it to the brink of disaster? Or Mary, Q...

"¢ The second book in the Truth or Lies series, following the success of Mary Queen of Scots. "¢ Completely original, unique approach - 12 myths ex...

This book offers a succinct yet thorough introduction to 131 of the most intriguing, courageous, inspiring Christians who ever lived. It tells how ...

This translation of the New Testament into English from its original Greek was printed in Germany in 1534 and smuggled back into England. It theref...

The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is the largest conservative, evangelical Presbyterian denomination in North America. And yet ministers, el...

J C Ryle’s abiding hope for Light From Old Times is that our souls will be stirred to prayer and action by the great testimonies of Reformers and P...

A great deal of confusion attends the process of sanctification in the church today. The reformer John Calvin, however, had a clear understanding o...

The book is a collection of essays from the International Conference of Baptist Studies VI that was held at Southeastern Baptist Theological Semina...

‘It has been my endeavour to handle my theme in a free and familiar fashion so as to avoid a coldly technical and stiff treatment of it, and to mak...

This convenient volume offers a panoramic view of the forces and personalities that shaped The United Methodist Church in the United States. Three ...

Church history is not about names, dates, and facts. It is about the flesh and blood people of God and the life and death issues that have shaped t...

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...