Church History

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...

This is the story of Robert and Margaret Muir's experience of God’s provision for their needs, and the material/spiritual needs of the African peop...

William J. Seymour: Pentecostal Trailblazer and Revered Pastor of the Azusa Street Revival? is a rich and thorough account of the life and ministry...

Drawing upon the most recent discoveries and scholarship in archaeology and the first-century Near East, The Dawn of Christianity reveals how a bel...

Revival history expert sorts fact from myth in the story of one of the best known revivals Scotland has played host to a vast array of religious re...

Despite the civil rights progress he fought for and saw on the horizon in the 1950s and '60s, Martin Luther King Jr.—increasingly concerned by Amer...

An internationally recognized scholar highlights the important role the North African church played in the development of Christian thought. This a...

Heraldry's unfamiliar terminology tends to discourage people from learning more about this fascinating subject. But heraldic language is essential ...

From Nero's burning of Rome to Martin Luther's posting of the Ninety-Five Theses to Billy Graham's crusades, the story of Christianity is one fille...

This classic work has been widely regarded as an invaluable introduction to the early Church since it was first published in 1965. Professor Frend ...

At a time when barbarous acts of terrorism are being committed globally and society ponders whether the perpetrators are legitimate religious adher...

This candid account of Willow Creek's dramatic growth shows what church is all about, and provides a model for church outreach, growth, and vitality.

Floor tiles with a wealth of different patterns and designs were used during the Middle Ages in churches, cathedrals, royal palaces and the homes o...

Britain is a treasure trove of medieval architecture. Almost every village and town in the land has a church that was built during the period, whos...

Churches contain much of the most interesting medieval sculpture in the country. Magnificent effigies, whether of cast copper-alloy or stone, never...

The walls of medieval churches were brightly painted with religious imagery and colourful patterns, and although often shadows of their former selv...

Handel called Britain 'The Ringing Isle' because he heard bells ringing everywhere he went. Behind the quintessentially English sound of bells ring...

How language works in the worship of the church has been vigorously debated during the period of liturgical revision in the twentieth century comin...

The Renaissance was a reaction against the attitude of the Middle Ages. And the Reformation was the passionate, divisive argument that grew out of ...

The Middle Ages were dubbed the 'Dark Ages' almost before they had begun to draw to a close. Ever since then, they have continued to be seen as a t...

Urban Legends Church History surveys forty of the most commonly misunderstood events of church history, from the period of the early church through...

Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall’s sweeping new history—the first major ov...

From the Houses of Parliament to the Midland Hotel at St Pancras and Strawberry Hill House, Gothic Revival buildings are some of the most distincti...

Richard L. Pratt Jr. (Th.D., Harvard University) is President and Founder of Third Millennium Ministries, an organization formed in 1997 to provide...

Inscriptions on gravestones yield fascinating information about the dead, their lives and occupations and the way they lived.

The Renaissance and Reformation were exciting times of learning and discovery - they pushed the boundaries of accepted thought. The repercussions o...

Every generation has an uncanny tendency to view themselves as more enlightened than those that have gone before. The Church certainly has made mis...

This book surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the second half of the eleventh century, when Pope Gregory VII first proposed a...

This celebration of some of the greatest art, architecture and furniture to be found in English churches offers a fascinating account of centuries ...

The Salvation Army is a byword for philanthropy and charitable work, with its brass bands and uniformed officers indelible parts of the fabric of B...

Ireland has long been regarded as a 'land of saints and scholars'. Yet the Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or uncomplicated....

How did a group of scared peasants from a backwater of the Roman empire – followers of an executed criminal – form the largest religion on the plan...

How did Christianity come to have such an extraordinary influence upon Europe? Beginning with the transmission of Jesus- teaching throughout the Ro...

Historians of modern German culture and church history refer to the Awakening movement (die Erweckungsbewegung) to describe a period in the history...