History

In the mid-nineteenth century, Dundee was gradually establishing itself as Scotland’s third-largest city, with a rapidly expanding economy. What mo...

In this fascinating book, Jason Borges offers an original and engaging analysis of public buildings in Greco-Roman cities. Drawing on primary sourc...

Beyond being a reformer, Martin Luther was many things to many people. He was a faithful husband, loving father, and brilliant scholar, and much mo...

Long unavailable the republication of Calvin’s Tracts and Letters will delight all who have come to delight in the writings of the sixteenth-centur...

This is the moving story of God’s redeeming and restoring grace to one who wrote the following epitaph for himself: John Newton, Clerk, once an in...

Scottish Puritans – Select Biographies constitute one of the great treasures of Scottish Christian literature. In quick succession, we meet such ju...

This book contains the moving testimonies of fifty priests who found their way, by the grace of God, out of the labyrinth of Roman Catholic theolog...

Was the Reformation a mistake? In its actual historical context, it hardly seems fair to call the Reformation a "mistake." In 1517, the Church was...

Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther, was by any measure the First Lady of the Reformation. A strong woman with a mind of her own, she would r...

James Mackay served as Lord Advocate of Scotland and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. He is, in the words of a past President of the Law Society o...

In the eighteenth century, an intellectual movement emphasising reason and rationalism came to dominate Europe. The Enlightenment has since been ca...

Over six hundred years ago a woman known as Julian of Norwich wrote what is now regarded as one of the greatest works of literature in English. But...

The development of Christianity during the Byzantine period changed the religious map of Europe in a way that still resonates today. This brief int...

In 1517, an unknown Augustinian monk, informed by his growing belief that salvation is by faith alone, published and distributed a stark criticism ...

John Milne became minister of St. Leonard’s, Perth, in 1839, and was almost immediately associated with an awakening in which an outstanding circle...

Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature investigates the meaning of purity, purification, defilement, and disgust for Christian...

Through various realignments beginning in the Revolutionary era and continuing across the nineteenth century, Christianity not only endured as a vi...

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III considers the Dissenting traditions of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, a...

For those who with C. H. Spurgeon ‘value every morsel about the Princeton worthies’, this book will be a source of inspiration as well as informati...

When the present publisher first issued The Reformation in England in 1962, it was hoped, in the words of its editor, S. M. Houghton, that it would...

Though largely associated with the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards leaves an amazing legacy as a theologian and preacher. Wrestling in his day wi...

“Love it or not, the Westminster Confession of Faith is one of the enduring theological statements of seventeenth-century Puritan England. But rela...

Sweet Communion introduces scholars and interested Reformed readers to the spirituality practised during the Further Reformation, a seventeenth-cen...

English Puritanism and Scottish Presbyterianism in the 17th century had many bright and shining lights. Of these, James Durham (1622–1658), ranks a...

English Puritanism and Scottish Presbyterianism in the 17th century had many bright and shining lights. Of these, James Durham (1622–1658), ranks a...

After a historiographical and interpretive introduction, the book falls into two parts, both referencing the 'Invisible Worlds' of the title, and r...

J.G. Pike (John Deodatus Gregory Pike) 1784-1854, was born April 6 at Edmonton. His mother claimed descent from Oliver Cromwell. His father was a d...

This book takes the reader back through time in British history to the Reformation. The reader is reminded of the debt that we owe to some remarkab...

This is the fourth and final volume of James T. Dennison’s Reformed Confessions project, which compiles numerous Reformed confessions of the sixtee...

An entertaining and enlightening expose of over-inflated claims about the Reformation and what it has done for us, written by a Pulitzer Prize shor...

How do historical and literary details contribute to a coherent theological witness to Jesus in the Gospel of John? A leading British evangelical N...

Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (1691-1747) was one of the most important precursors of the Great Awakening. This book contains a biographical intr...

Discovered on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in the decade after the Second World War, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a historical and religious rec...

Michael Reeves tells the story of the Reformation in a fast-paced style. John Stott (text updated with permission) takes the story forward, looking...

As well as being the source of several of Spurgeon’s books, The Sword and the Trowel also contained much material which has otherwise remained unpu...

ke an amazing tour through the pages of this book as the world’s true history is shared through unique, world-class exhibits. Experience the realit...

Spiritual leaders lead people to heaven. Here in Seven Leaders are accounts of seven such men, together with the distinctive features of their live...

Among the many memorials to the ‘great and the good’ in London’s Westminster Abbey, there is one made of black marble and inscribed with letters of...

Through the years, our understanding of Jesus has been shaped by different cultural influences, and many Christians have forgotten that Jesus was a...

The second half of the seventh century was a time of great change in Ireland, Scotland and northern Britain, and, as ninth Abbot of Iona and leader...

As the ultimate Author of Scripture, the Holy Spirit alone can give us a true understanding of the Bible—of the message and meaning of the book He ...

A book about Judah? Maybe you don’t even remember the man himself. Or, if you do, you may feel that his story is a very unpleasant one, one you’d r...

Twenty-one of the forty-five chants, responses, choruses, introits and shorter songs that are featured in the Come All You People songbook. Source...

The history of the Iona Community including St Columba’’s founding of an influential Celtic Christian community on the Hebridean island of Iona in ...

The Westminster Assembly is widely known for its doctrinal standards and debates on church polity. But how often is the assembly noted for its extr...

Concise historical introduction to Aquinas and his continuing influence on the world and how we see it. Part One: The History (What do we know?) T...