History

Readings in Christian Ethics presents in one volume the most consequential ethical writings from the earliest days of Christianity through the late...

This book portrays one of the most dramatic episodes in recent Mennonite history. Set against the background of the early Soviet era in Russia, it ...

“In Revelation 2:2, Jesus tells the church in Ephesus something intimate—Google Street View intimate. He says, ‘I know your works’ (Oida ta erga so...

This book addresses a particular and little-known form of writing, the prose dialogue, during the Late Antique period, when Christian authors adopt...

'Blending a commanding knowledge of the fi eld with a rare gift for synthesis and lucid expression, Mark Noll brings to life what it meant for Chri...

This volume in the Library of Christian Classics series offers fresh translations of works by several early reformers. Inlcuded among the authors i...

In A Goodly Heritage, Cornelis Pronk surveys the history of the Secession of 1834, beginning with the events leading up to this important spiritual...

This book tells how the Christian faith has been foundational to the building of Britain. In a rare approach, John Bradley takes the reader from Ro...

Theologian Tyron Inbody suggests a new understanding of God in this highly accessible introduction to Christian perspectives of suffering and evil....

Packed with over almost 100 images and countless stories, it brings to life the fascinating communities and the characters along the route in whose...

Nothing in Shakespeare's England was as important as religion. Questions of faith informed everything from history and politics to love and family,...

Now available in trade paper! Are you settling for half the story? Highlighting connections that have been hidden from non-Jewish eyes, Rabbi Jason...

Before the New Testament or the creeds of the church were writtenÑthe devotional practices of the earliest Christians show that they worshipped Jes...

This is the fascinating and important story of how God’s Word came to East Africa. Beginning with the pioneering efforts of Krapf and Rebmann, Aloo...

Widely known theological educator and sociologist Carol Lytch presents this well-researched study of what attracts teenagers to the church and what...

This book is a tool for teaching and studying the great Christian classic, Augustine's Confessions. It is a unique venture in which thirteen differ...

Looking beyond theological narratives and offering a sociological, economic, and historical examination of the spread of earliest Christianity, Jam...

A page-turning story of the Pilgrims, the courageous band of freedom-seekers who set out for a new life for themselves and forever changed the cour...

A page-turning story of the Pilgrims, the courageous band of freedom-seekers who set out for a new life for themselves and forever changed the cour...

The popular image of the Vikings is of tall red-headed men, raping and pillaging their way around the coast of Europe, stopping only to ransack mon...

The popular image of the Vikings is of tall red-headed men, raping and pillaging their way around the coast of Europe, stopping only to ransack mon...

This completely revised and updated second edition of The New Testament in Antiquity skillfully develops how Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman culture...

Difference can enrich us or tear us apart. Difference can make our lives stronger, fuller, and richer or it can destroy them. Therefore, how we eng...

At the roots of African American Christian life is a powerful force of soul, a dynamic spirituality that provides joy and hope. This African Americ...

Contemporary spirituality tends to follow an inward journey, unconcerned with churches and rituals, even while it is drawn towards pilgrimages to r...

Despite the claim by many Christian leaders that the pro- life/antiabortion position is the only faithful response to the debate about reproductive...

Preparing for the Lord’s Supper presents practical instruction from two Puritans. William Bradshaw’s contribution explains the dangers of taking Co...

Is it possible to empathize fully with the victims of the Holocaust? Can those who approach the Holocaust in the aftermath ever know it in a way th...

Late antiquity saw a proliferation of Christian texts dwelling on the emotions and physical sensations of dying, not as a heroic martyr in a public...

Moderate Radical explores an exciting period of English, and British, history: Elizabethan and Early Stuart religious politics. Tobie Matthew (c. 1...

This beautifully designed, full-color textbook introduces the Roman background of the New Testament by immersing students in the life and culture o...

Have you ever wondered how a camel can go through the eye of a needle? How the four men got their paralytic friend through the roof to Jesus? What ...

There are two trips included on every serious Bible reader’s bucket list. One is to Israel. The other is to Greece—to walk in Paul’s footsteps, tow...

In this study, Anne Jensen provides an exhaustive account of the many roles that women played in the early church (confessors, martyrs, prophetesse...

The words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech have become enshrined in US history. But after the end of King's generation of leadersh...

"Drawing on all the community's collective voices—from ""doctors to drug dealers""—Fearless Dialogues is a groundbreaking program that seeks real s...