Church History

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...

Evangelicalism Divided traces the fascinating saga of the personalities, institutions and publications involved in the fifty-year period between 19...

Africa has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy. Some of the most decisive intellectual achievements of Ch...

It was the increasing conviction that martyrs, though dead, can still speak to the church, which led Bishop J.C. Ryle to pen these pungent biograph...

Studying church history is like learning your genealogy, with ample helpings of family recipes, scandalous disputes, inspiring heroes, quirky uncle...

A tribute to the monumental influence of John Calvin in the 500 years since his birth. What legacies, still enduring today, have John Calvin and C...

500 Years ago, Europe went through one of the most remarkable and turbulent periods in its history. The lines of political and theological power we...

8 sessions. A concise look at United Methodist history and doctrine. Includes study guide

This book introduces twelve key Christians from the second and third centuries, a formative period for the Church. These figures are: Justin Martyr...

‘My knowledge of the history of Christianity is shocking. Once we get out of the New Testament I find myself having considerable difficulty. Did th...

This book provides information from Church history concerning the recognition of the canonical status of the several books of the New Testament. Ca...

A comprehensive account of Christianity in all its historical and geographical diversity. This book, originally published as The Oxford Illustrate...

Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around th...

A source book for students of the patristic period and a companion volume to "Creeds, Councils and Controversies" and "Doctrine and Practice in the...

In this 30-minute DVD session, you will learn about the Early Christians, the growth of the Church, the first believers to be called Christians, an...

23/07/2012

Who were the Church Fathers? What did they achieve? And why are their lives and writings considered so important?  D’Ambrosio dusts off the dry the...

When Jesus ascended to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father, He poured out His Holy Spirit at Pentecost. This significant histor...