Church History

The Renaissance and Reformation were exciting times of learning and discovery - they pushed the boundaries of accepted thought. The repercussions o...

Every generation has an uncanny tendency to view themselves as more enlightened than those that have gone before. The Church certainly has made mis...

This book surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the second half of the eleventh century, when Pope Gregory VII first proposed a...

This celebration of some of the greatest art, architecture and furniture to be found in English churches offers a fascinating account of centuries ...

The Salvation Army is a byword for philanthropy and charitable work, with its brass bands and uniformed officers indelible parts of the fabric of B...

Ireland has long been regarded as a 'land of saints and scholars'. Yet the Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or uncomplicated....

How did a group of scared peasants from a backwater of the Roman empire – followers of an executed criminal – form the largest religion on the plan...

How did Christianity come to have such an extraordinary influence upon Europe? Beginning with the transmission of Jesus- teaching throughout the Ro...

Historians of modern German culture and church history refer to the Awakening movement (die Erweckungsbewegung) to describe a period in the history...

As Hitler became ever more influential among the German people, so religion became a factor which Hitler could use to the advantage of National Soc...

Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723) is now mostly remembered as a genius of architecture – but he was also an accomplished polymath, who only came to ...

Why do religious people choose paths that lead to their deaths as martyrs? Why do some who are killed for their faith become known and revered whil...

How might our worship recapture and reflect the enchanted world of God's nearness in Jesus Christ?In this first volume in IVP Academic's Dynamics o...

During the reign of Queen Victoria, the Church of England changed remarkably, and many of the institutions that are now a significant part of its l...

Widely viewed during the Revolutionary period as a champion of both republicanism and evangelical Calvinism, the College of New Jersey nonetheless ...

Princeton Theological Seminary recently celebrated its bicentennial. Many of the key ideas of the modern era, and Christian responses to them, were...

Embracing poetic works by Chaucer, Lydgate and Hoccleve, prose writings on philosophy, contemplation and bibliophily, key service books for the cle...

A charming and witty history of the quirky - but widely-practiced craft of embroidering kneeler cushions'A treasure of a collection' Amber Butchart...

At some point, every man or woman comes face-to-face with the brutal consequences of their own vanity, the crippling ridicule of their own insecuri...

Steeped in rich, though often personally costly history, the Africa Inland Church has been spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ to the peoples o...

Designed as an undergraduate textbook, and shaped by needs of both Muslim and Christian students across Africa, this resource provides a thorough i...

Why do certain groups and individuals seek to do harm in the name of God? While studies often claim to hold the key to this frightening phenomenon,...

The big picture is well-known: over the last century, religion in Britain has lost power, popularity, and plausibility. Here, Steve Bruce charts th...

Who owns Christian history? Whose ancestors are Augustine, Anselm and Aquinas? "Ancestral Feeling" asks whether a Christian religious ancestry is c...

The history of the church is filled with stories. Stories of triumph, stories of defeat, stories of joy, and stories of sorrow. These stories are a...

'On the walls of buildings . . . on leather and papyrus, Israelites living under the monarchy (1000-587 B.C.E.) penned or scratched texts ranging f...

Worship of the triune God has always stood at the center of the Christian life. That was certainly the case during the sixteenth-century Reformatio...

Five hundred years later, the Reformation still has important things to say. In this clear, incisive and accessible survey, Michael Reeves and Tim ...

London's many cemeteries, churches and graveyards are the last resting places of a multitude of important people from many different walks of life....

Bruce Ware, Darryl Hart, John MacArthur, and others join the editors in calling evangelicals to recover their Reformation roots. Too many evangelic...

The wisdom of tribal peoples has often been overlooked, both within the church and outside of it. However as the ideologies of consumerism, free ma...

The Reformation transformed England forever. From peasants in the lanes and fields to the court of Henry VIII, no life was left untouched as the Ro...

The generations of French Protestants who maintained their faith following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) provided a rich theological...

The Story of the Church gives an accessible and concise survey of the history of the Christian church, from the first century to the twenty-first. ...

Mission is constantly innovating. As contexts change, so too does the work of the church. Today, in the face of a rapidly changing world and a g...

This book argues for the inseparability of classical Hellenism from the Greek patristic tradition from a distinctly Eastern Orthodox perspective. P...

The Saints of Zion is a fresh look at the history and theology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Although hundreds of books have ...

Descending into the darkness of a long-abandoned hermit's cave, wading naked into an icy sea to pray, spending the night on a sacred mountain, Nick...

Many recognise Everett Ferguson as the definitive voice on early Christianity, patristic writing and ecclesiology. The Early Church at Work and Wor...

This introductory study is written from a new religious and theological studies perspective. Building on latest research in history and archaeology...

Are Christians meant to experience suffering? This question has long been a contentious one within the church. Christ is risen, the kingdom of heav...

An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically--up to the present day--worked against racial justice. And a call for urgen...

The Georgian Church was, together with the State, a 'temporal pillar' of the fabric of the nation. The Church occupied an honoured place in politic...

In this book we are invited to travelback in time to the year AD 45 and tothe city of Antioch, an importanttrade, commercial and culturalcentre, bu...

The fourteenth century was a dark time for the church in England. Superstition and error obscured the truth of the gospel, and even the clergy had ...