History

A leading figure in the Evangelical Revival in eighteenth-century England, John Wesley (1703–91) is the founding father of Methodism and, by extens...

The Autumn of 1857 saw New York in the midst of financial failure which ruined many of its one million people. J.W. Alexander, returning there from...

Robert Hawker was considered as the 'Star of the West', due to his superlative preaching that drew thousands to Charles to hear him speak for over ...

None of the Fathers of the early church is better known or loved than St. John Chrysostom, and none of his works is more popular than On the Priest...

In these letters—available in English in their entirety for the first time—St John Chrysostom guides, comforts, and instructs his spiritual daughte...

Reflecting on his past, President John Adams mused that it was religion that had shaped his family's fortunes and young America's future. For the n...

Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs provides a collection, with facing-page translations, of Greek and Latin Christian martyr narr...

When Christians first began living as monks in the Egyptian desert at the beginning of the fourth century, they had few books and almost no learnin...

The women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America has primarily been interpreted as a secular movement. However, in From Preachers to Suffr...

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 ...

Over the course of history, many critics have attacked Martin Luther and brought many false claims against him. Defending Luther's Reformation dire...

Creation is the theater of God's glory. Scripture is like a pair of glasses that clarifies our vision of God. Justification is the hinge on which r...

Impressed with the idea that the progress of the Reformation in England rendered it safe for him to leave his concealment, he settled at Antwerp in...

William Wilberforce is now remembered mainly for his leadership of the two great crusades to abolish the Slave Trade and later to free the slaves. ...

The purpose of the book is to introduce new and older Christians to a rich treasury of writing on prayer and discipleship that is accessible and wr...

Few have combined so many gifts and achievements in such a short lifetime as Charles Haddon Spurgeon. During his forty-one years as a Christian pas...

To Gain at Harvest celebrates the courage, intellect, humility and passion displayed by figures of all shades of opinion and belief during the Engl...

Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Catholic priest in the early thirteeth century, is considered to be one of the great Christian thinkers who had, and who...

Often credited as being the father of the via media, Richard Hooker was one of the most innovative minds of English Protestantism. Theologians, phi...

Often credited as being the father of the via media, Richard Hooker was one of the most innovative minds of English Protestantism. Theologians, phi...

Often credited as being the father of the via media, Richard Hooker was one of the most innovative minds of English Protestantism. Theologians, phi...

This brief historical introduction to the English Reformation explores the social, political and religious factors that formed the original context...

Days after the assassination of his prime minister in the middle of Rome in November 1848, Pope Pius IX found himself a virtual prisoner in his own...

Take a fresh look at the work of B.B. Warfield. 'The Lion of Princeton,' as he was known, was in many ways the most significant American apologist,...

A classic work of Christian literature commissioned by the Franciscan Order in the year 1250, The Life of St. Francis by St. Bonaventure—the Tuscan...

'I wish to remain single, for I have made a vow of virginity.'This is the remarkable story of the twelfth-century recluse Christina, who became pri...

Charles Hodge is acknowledged to be one of the most influential leaders in the history of the church in America, and perhaps the greatest American ...

Who were the Puritans? What did they seek to achieve? What were their successes and failures? Are they of any importance to Christians today? We fi...

'Alas that I ever did sin! It is so merry in Heaven!'The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436-8) is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother,...

Almost unknown by evangelical Christians today, Juan de Vald?s and Don Benedetto were Italian Reformers who penned what are probably the two most s...

A fresh, modern translation of key works of the apostolic fathers.The ""Apostolic Fathers"" wrote what has become some of the most important litera...

The miracle of St Cuthbert’s incorrupt corpse has been the subject of much fascination since his death over thirteen-hundred years ago, inspiring p...

A beautifully illustrated book which describes the lives of 44 saints and outstanding Christians. Focusing on how they lived their lives and the ef...

‘The crowds that follow Rowland Hill wherever he is called to preach, overwhelm me with astonishment, and gratitude to the God of all grace, who ha...

There is no doubt that Richard Hooker (1554-1600) is one of the most important writers in the history of the Church of England. However, since John...

From the great saints of the past to those involved in the troubles of Northern Ireland, this new book gives an account of real life stories which ...

The 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 focuses the mind on the history and significance of Protestant forms of Christianity. It also prom...

Just five months after Martin Luther published his Ninety-Five Theses, 13--year-old Philipp was declared Landgrave of Hesse, ruler of one of the mo...

Paul is the most powerful human personality in the history of the Church. A missionary, theologian, and religious genius, in his epistles he laid t...

St Isaac's monastic anthropology had a major influence on all of Byzantine spiritual literature.

No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther.In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther as...

Martin Luther has been the subject of hundreds of biographies in the last five hundred years, stretching back to his own autobiographical efforts, ...

Two monastic elders - the Great Old Man Barsanuphius, and the Other Old Man John - flourished in the southern region around Gaza in the early part ...