History

Scholars disputing the identity of the Church of England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries describe it as either forming a ...

This latest volume in the Westminster History of Christian Thought series introduces readers to the events and ideas that propelled the various rel...

This compact book for laity introduces the major concepts of the Christian faith in a quick, easy-to-read fashion. The author begins with a brief o...

In Christendom at the Crossroads, the introductory book in the Westminster History of Christian Thought series, J. A. Sheppard explores the develop...

A rare and important study offering a complete review of John Calvin's preaching activity, purpose, method, and style. Parker's work includes Calvi...

Acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Craig Shirley delivers a compelling account of 1945, particularly the watershed events in...

A decade ago, William J. Bennett published a magisterial three-volume account of our nation's history. Now, Bennett returns to that bestselling tri...

In the post-9/11 world, it is not difficult to see how important religion remains in America and around the globe. An older generation of scholars ...

The roots of Pakistan's blasphemy laws can be traced back to the British colonial rule in India, but their harsher clauses were added to the Pakist...

This book shows the presence and the participation of Africans in the biblical text, helping demonstrate that Christianity is not a "white man's re...

This book offers an introduction to the thought of Robert Holcot, a great and influential but often underappreciated medieval thinker. Holcot was a...

This is the first Handbook of the Reformations to include global Protestantism, and the most comprehensive Handbook on the development of Protestan...

Tethered to the cross is how the renowned nineteenth-century English Baptist minister Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) described the task of ministr...

College Voices  tells the story of Christ's College Aberdeen, a theological college of the Church of Scotland, from its beginnings in the 1840s to ...

In The American Puritans, Dustin Benge and Nate Pickowicz tell the story of the first hundred years of Reformed Protestantism in New England throug...

J C Ryle (1816-1900) was a faithful evangelical Christian, a prolific writer and bishop of Liverpool. His books Holiness and Practical religion hav...

Long considered a highly distinctive English writer, Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) has not been treated as the significant historian he was. Fuller's T...

‘If the English people were to be set a test to justify their history and civilization by the example of one man, then it is Sir Thomas More whom t...

The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe written in the 16th century has long been the go-to source for studying the lives and martyrdom of the apostles. W...

Women are an essential element in church history. Just as Deborah, Esther, and the New Testament Marys helped shape Bible history, so the women of ...

Although a considerable number of scattered records accompanied what Jonathan Edwards called the ‘Revival of Religion in New England in 1740’ it wa...

In Stories of the Saints Clare Richards looks at the lives of 47 saints from the earliest Christian martyrs through to the twentieth century. Their...

The stories and contributions of the apostles provide an important entrée into church history. However, the legends of the apostles after the New T...

He was the dominant intellectual figure of his age. His published works, including the Principia Mathematica and Opticks, reached across the scient...

Being released in the 400th anniversary of his birth, Enamoured with Piety by Dr. Yarran Johnston, offers an insight into the life and ministry of ...

No other Christian teachings in the past five hundred years have affected our Western culture as deeply as the worldview of John Calvin. It extends...

‘On the morning of 6 October 1536, a frail scholar was taken from a dungeon in the castle at Vilvoorde, just north of Brussels. Armed guards kept t...