Church History

Who are the Puritans? Why are they important for me today? If you have asked questions like these and still await adequate answers, this book is fo...

In 1882, Pope Leo XIII issued an Apostolic Brief dividing the Diocese of Southwark and forming the new Diocese of Portsmouth, to include Hampshire,...

The Book of Common Prayer has been at the heart of the devotional life of the Church of England for more than six hundred years, prompting what Geo...

Sources in Christian Political Economy: A Reader, compiled by Jordan J. Ballor and Erik W. Matson, gathers forty-nine essential texts, spanning lit...

Christian History, Volume 1: From the Apostolic Fathers to the Eve of the Reformation by Steven A. McKinion and Benjamin T. Quinn tells the story o...

In The China Chronicles, Paul Hattaway draws on more than 30 years’ experience in China and numerous interviews with church leaders to provide insi...

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...

Zhejiang, a prosperous eastern province, is home to the highest percentage of Christians in China. This volume describes how God established His ki...

This book is the eighth in Paul Hattaway’s series The China Chronicles. In the series, he draws on more than thirty-five years of experience in Chi...

This book is the seventh in Paul Hattaway’s series The China Chronicles. In the series, he draws on more than thirty-five years of experience in Ch...

Many have heard of the extraordinary explosion of Christianity throughout China in recent decades. Few, however, know how it occurred. Paul Hattawa...

The Tibetan Plateau is mountainous, inaccessible and vast – three times the land area of the UK, but with only one-tenth of the population. Most Ti...

In The China Chronicles, Paul Hattaway draws on more than 30 years’ experience in China and numerous interviews with church leaders to provide insi...

Many people are aware of the extraordinary explosion of Christianity throughout China in recent decades, but few know how it has occurred. In The C...

Sanctification is an essential part of every Christian life. But how do its differing theologies shape our Christian walk and wider socio-ethic con...

During the Reformation, theologians wrote, colleagues annotated, scribes recorded, and printers toiled, bringing Protestant doctrine and practice t...

This reader with commentary helps Christians understand and critically examine major arguments that have been made in the Western intellectual trad...

The enthralling story of how Christianity emerged in the first centuries AD

Highlighting thirty significant and sometimes shocking events that shaped the Church, an accomplished author reveals how they continue to influence...

The study of doctrinal truth, apart from its historical background, leads to a truncated theology. There has been too much of this in the past, and...

The way forward requires both old ways and new ways!Step into the world of Wesleyan beliefs and practices with this small, insightful, and impactfu...

In Protestant Relics in Early America, Jamie L. Brummitt upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United State...

While there has been renewed scholarly interest in paratextual features of early Christian manuscripts, that interest has rarely extended to the si...

The German Peasants' Revolts of 1525 were a defining moment both for the Protestant Reformation and the history of European culture. But while the ...

This is the latest in a series of volumes, published about every twenty-five years since 1924, surveying the current state of the academic study of...

The year 2025 represents the 1700-year anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. While the history and theology of Nicaea is thoroughly discussed in ac...

Laura Zucconi introduces the practice and theory of medicine in the ancient world. In contrast to other works that focus heavily on Greece and Rome...

"As our nation has experienced a renewal of reckoning with the reality of slavery in our past and the continued struggle for equality and liberatio...

Today, we see leaders allowing the church to be shaped by culture, rather than boldly sharing the good news of Jesus Christ and all that flows from...

The Protestant Reformation would change not only the Church, but business, culture, commerce and education. In short, it changed everything. In th...

Around the world today the cross is, arguably, the one universally recognized symbol of the Christian faith, but this unifying sign for diverse Chr...

Many volumes deal with that terrible yet glorious period in the history of the Scottish church between the restoration of Charles II and the access...

2020 sees the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower – the ship that took the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World. It’s a foundational even...

For 2,000 years, Catholicism—the largest religion in the world and in the United States—has shaped global history on a scale unequaled by any other...

For 2,000 years, Catholicism—the largest religion in the world and in the United States—has shaped global history on a scale unequaled by any other...

With his trademark reverence and revelry, The Revd. Fergus Butler-Gallie travels through time and place to get to the heart of the religion he is s...

It is broadly understood that John Wesley was the founder of the Methodist movement that spread around the world in the eighteenth century. He is k...

Featured in The Millions — A year in Reading, Nick Ripatrazone.Each year I read more books than I can possibly review — here are 5 of the finest an...

"Stan has given us a book that is full of insight—about the life of one great woman, yes, but also about some of the most complicated, nuanced, and...

The Walk That Changed Everything As they make their way home, their hearts are broken. Everything they have patiently prayed for and hoped in has b...

How can Christians engage meaningfully with history? In an age underpinned by the idea that life is about self-invention and fulfilment, contempora...

An Infinite Treasury acquaints you with one of the most uplifting Puritan authors, William Bridge (1600–1670). Brian G. Hedges traces Bridge's life...

Embark on a pilgrimage through the great cathedrals of the world. Gernot Candolini and Jennifer Brandon invite readers to experience some of the ex...

The modern liturgical movement owes a great debt to Solesmes monk Dom Eugène Cardine (1905-1988), whose tireless research in the ancient manuscript...