History

Part One: The History (What do we know?) This brief historical introduction to Bach explores the social, political and religious factors that forme...

Immanuel Kant (1724– 1804) remains a major influence in philosophy, especially in the areas of epistemology, ethics, theology, political theory and...

Heroes of the Christian Faith is a fascinating reading book which tells the stories of the lives of 44 saints and other great Christians. The stori...

Here is an engaging biographical sketch of the elderly church diplomat and dedicated pastor who found himself Pope. It explores his surprise decisi...

The four desert Fathers who gave their names to this volume- Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria- were well known some 1...

The Bible tells us Jesus is for every tribe, language, people and nation – so why are all the saints in our stained-glass windows white? An oppress...

Seldom is a day of national mourning appointed for an evangelical, as happened in Vanuatu on the death of Graham Miller in 2008. He had contributed...

The Society of St John the Evangelist, otherwise known as the Cowley Fathers, was the first men's religious order to be founded in the Church of En...

The last 40 years have brought great ferment and change, both in the world and the Church. But what has all this meant to those in the priesthood? ...

This beautifully illustrated book looks at fifty revolutionary Christians, some of whom are now officially recognised as saints, but all are outsta...

Calvin's Tormentors offers a unique approach to John Calvin by introducing the individuals and groups who, through their opposition to Calvin's the...

This volume examines Calvin's thought and impact on political ideas. Not only does it set forth the Reformer's political ideas in his own words fro...

The Republic of Suriname has a long and rich heritage of Bible translation spanning more than 250 years, yet very little has been published on its ...

By his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influence not only his contemporaries but ...

Paul Tillich, one of the greatest Protestant theologians of modern times, wrote more than one hundred radio addresses that were braodcast into Nazi...

As has so often happened in the history of God’s people, the persecution of gospel believers instigated by Mary Tudor (Queen of England from 1553 t...

In this insightful and accessible book, religion journalist Mark Pinsky takes the curious reader on a tour of the fascinating world of Sun Belt eva...

Plato. Aristotle. Augustine. Hume. Kant. Hegel. These names and the philosophies associated with them ring through the minds of every student and s...

For over a decade, A Biblical History of Israel has gathered praise and criticism for its unapologetic approach to reconstructing the historical la...