Church History

Major Schisms in the First Sixteen Centuries · Development of Church Government · Orthodoxy and Unitarianism Compared · Education in Puritan Englan...

Ring-headed crosses of impressive height and intricate design were first erected in Iona and Ireland from the eighth century onwards. This book dea...

Durham Cathedral was built as the Shrine of St Cuthbert. Without Cuthbert, this great Norman edifice would not exist, and neither would the castle ...

During the sixteenth century, many Reformers echoed Erasmus's claim that the message of the Scriptures was clear, could be understood by even the l...

Sir John Betjeman was born at the start of the twentieth century, and lived to become Poet Laureate, an accomplished writer and campaigner, and som...

For centuries, Baptists have published confessions of faith as formal statements of their beliefs. Chief among these is the Second London Baptist C...

Many people think of history as merely the past—or at most, information about the past. But the real work of a historian is to listen to the voices...

This classic work includes extensive essays on the Roman political system and its leaders, the political and religious parties of Judaism, messiani...

Can Christian identity and national identity be reconciled? For Christians in China, this question is particularly fraught. While Sinicization offe...

‘In one six-week period in November and December, more than four hundred church buildings were bulldozed to the ground.’ Zhejiang, a prosperous ...

The author defines Yesterday's Radicals as nineteenth-century Anglican Broad Churchmen and Unitarians, and aims in his book to demonstrate the affi...

The author defines Yesterday's Radicals as nineteenth-century Anglican Broad Churchmen and Unitarians, and aims in his book to demonstrate the affi...

In this book, David Lindenfeld proposes a new dimension to the study of world history. Here, he explores the global expansion of Christianity since...

In Africa and around the world, the church has been established through the faithful effort of men and women working together for the sake of the g...

We generally assume that those sitting around us in church share our beliefs. But when our personal convictions are contested by fellow Christians,...

To ask and answer the question ‘Why were our Reformers burned?’ could not be more pertinent to the times in which we live, according to Roger Carsw...

The Bible contains four Gospels which tell the story of Jesus of Nazareth. And yet, many more Gospels once existed. Who, then, determined which Gos...

On September 15, 1959, Georges Vanier, Canada's Governor-General soon-to-be, began his acceptance speech with the following invocation: 'Mr. Prime ...

War memorials are a feature of Britain's landscape, and part of the fabric of its history as a nation. The Imperial War Museum's National Inventory...

A beautifully illustrated guide to the world of Victorian stained glass and its manufacturers and designers. Victorian stained glass – magnificent...

This insightful history explores the stereotype of Dallas Theological Seminary as an anti-intellectual stronghold of fundamentalism and dispensatio...

In this book, Tex Sample provides the church with the information it needs to attract and keep members. Sample disucsses common lifestyles, includi...

How did Christianity develop and grow into a religious movement, casting its shadows and light into almost every corner of the world? This reada...

Now in its fourth edition, this bestselling textbook (over 125,000 copies sold) isolates key events that provide a framework for understanding the ...

A major narrative history of Christianity's first thousand years by acclaimed educator and #1 New York Times bestselling author William J. Bennett....

This book is believed to be the first attempt to present an overview of all Christian activity in Tibet throughout history. The Tibetan Plateau ...

Marking the 850th anniversary of his dramatic murder, this major exhibition and book presents Becket's tumultuous journey from a merchant's son to ...

The third of seven volumes of John Wesley's correspondence, this volume is devoted to Wesley's letters written from 1756 to 1765. The letters of Jo...

The controversial and doctrinal works emerging from John Wesley’s debates with Moravians, with Roman Catholics, and regrading worship practices are...

With typical eloquence and wisdom, in The Way of St Benedict Rowan Williams explores the appeal of St Benedict's sixth-century Rule, showing it to ...

The Victorian clergyman is a familiar character in the fiction of the period, especially in the novels of Anthony Trollope and George Eliot. Throug...

A faithful examination of the role of John Calvin in the execution of Michael Servetus. The execution of Michael Servetus (1511–53) is one of the m...

Creeds and confessions throughout Christian history provide a unique vantage point from which to study the Christian faith. To this end, Donald Fai...

In The Story of Christianity: Volume 1, Justo L. González, author of the highly praised three-volume History of Christian Thought, presents a narra...

I felt my heart strangely warmed.That was how John Wesley described his transformational experience of God's grace at Aldersgate Street on May 24, ...

First published in 1930, The Social Achievements of the Christian Church, was one of the first modern surveys of Christian social and ethical influ...

While understanding history has always been an essential task for God's people, rapid changes within the past two generations of Christianity have ...

​Since the reviving of the dioceses in 1850, Bishops of Hexham and Newcastle ostensibly all had the same “job” to do: to lead and care for their di...

Over a long period of ministry Clifford Hill has written numerous books. This latest book is among the most important, if not the most important. T...