Church History

Discover how icons can become part of your own life of prayer.Encounter twelve of the world’s most significant Orthodox icons with one of today’s b...

In 1563, John Foxe began a memorial of martyrs starting with Stephen, the first to die for the cause of Christ, and ending with the most recent mar...

For American Claire Stewart, joining the French Resistance sounded as romantic as the storylines she hopes will one day grace the novels she wants ...

Did Martin Luther wield his hammer on the Wittenberg church door on October 31, 1517? Did he even post the Ninety-five Theses at all? This collecti...

The Catholic Church has always had regard for the spiritual and pastoral welfare of those in the military and for centuries priests have ministered...

An expansive, substantive history of the Wesleyan tradition in the United States, Doctrine, Spirit, and Discipline offers a broad survey of the Met...

Our Trespasses uncovers how race, geography, policy, and religion have created haunted landscapes in Charlotte, North Carolina, and throughout the ...

Martin Luther is among those most influential and well-known people ever to live. But who was he and what did he want? What significance does he ha...

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...

Shaanxi is the cradle of Chinese civilization, where the compass, paper, printing, and gunpowder were invented. It was the southern terminus of the...

In this opening volume to his Formation of Christian Theology series, John Behr looks at the implications formed out of Jesus' question of "Who do ...

A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American ChristianityThe history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people d...

A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American ChristianityThe history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people d...

The Lord shepherds me, and nothing will be lacking for me. In a place of tender grass, there he causes me to encamp.In his reading of Psalm 23, ear...

In the first volume of his magisterial intellectual history, Michael Horton locates the roots of the contemporary “spiritual but not religious” mov...

James L. Gorman’s fresh edition of Richard T. Hughes’s classic work, Reviving the Ancient Faith, illuminates the Church of Christ movement started ...

Stephen O. Presley shows us how to keep faith in a secular culture, using the early church as a model. Amid a pagan culture that regarded their fai...

Voices of the Martyrs, A.D. 34 - A.D. 203 covers the earliest period of church history. Though we will never know how many have given their lives f...

A fine introduction to Puritan preaching, this little book also recalls one of the great turning points in English Christianity—for these sermons w...

"An Anglican curate was brought to a place of desperation. He was aware that he didn’t have the answers to the major spiritual needs that surrounde...

The extraordinary story of the birth of the Scottish mission to the Jews In the middle of the nineteenth century, God began to lay on the hearts of...

This practical book challenges the Church to be more pro-active in its warfare with Satan and his spiritual kingdom of darkness. The author believe...

During the Reformation of the sixteenth century, the role of the Bible in both Protestant and Roman Catholic branches of western Christianity was v...

An entertaining history of the soundtrack of American evangelical Christianity Few things frightened conservative white Protestant parents of the ...

A major new history of one of the world's holiest of cities, based on the most recent archaeological discoveries First settled five thousand years...

Roman Catholic public schools in England emerged from the early 1800s as part of the wider educational mission of a Catholic church seeking to supp...

Critical theory has many faces; its complexities and nuances present a challenge to those seeking to engage with its thought. In order to understan...

In Christian History Volume 2: From the Reformation to the Present, Thomas S. Kidd presents a global history of the Christian church in the modern ...

In 'The Amazing Story of Pakistan’s Christians,' Michael Wakely delivers a compelling narrative that traverses the rich tapestry of Pakistani Chris...

Bridget of Sweden was one of the best-travelled women of the Middle Ages. From her native Sweden, she went to Rome and later to the Holy Land. Luc...

The first monograph to relate confessional subscription to the practice of conscience during the Reformation, sets Calvin and his contemporaries ag...

Gives a rare exploration of Bavinck’s engagement with the nineteenth-century turn to history, includes a number of Bavinck’s previouslyunpublished ...

Provides a state-of-theart guide to the subject of Christian fundamentalism, analyses the origins of the movement and its development up to the pre...

Gives a thorough analysis of the relationship between the doctrinal and spiritual writings of Gregory of Nyssa, provides one of the most comprehens...

Presents a comprehensive and inclusive history of Irish religion, traces the history of Christianity in Ireland from its earliest beginnings to the...

'Religion is very much part of life as it's lived now for lots and lots of people and, around the world, most people... Religion is not boring; I t...

To understand the great theologians of the past, we must understand the circumstances that formed them. In the newest volume of the Reformed Histor...

What does it mean to be “evangelical?” In Evangelical Heroes, Joel Beeke and Douglas Bond present thirty biographical sketches of faithful evangeli...

For decades Americans have turned to the Commerce Department's Index of Leading Economic Indicators to spot trends in the economy. The Index of ...

Sam has survived physical, sexual, and substance abuse, terrible violence, and life on the streets. Wendy lives for the next high on crack, oblivio...

When you read the Bible, you join an ancient conversation that spans centuries and cultures to unite Christians of every era in our one faith hande...

If the Bible is allowed to be the standard by which blacks and whites determine truth, then freedom from this moral and racial malaise will be the ...

Take a detailed look into the deep and rich history of Christianity in Latin America.

Now in its third edition, Tim Dowley's masterful one-volume survey of church history has an updated design and new content, particularly in the sec...