Church History

To combat abuses in the church of his day, a young German monk drafted nearly one hundred propositions for public debate. Martin Luther posted thes...

In August of 1520, Martin Luther published the first of three incendiary works, Address to the German Nobility, in which he urged secular authoriti...

Pearce was a Baptist pastor known in eighteenth-century England for his moving preaching and strong, pious character. In his short life, he support...

The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thi...

In AD 597 St Augustine arrived at Canterbury to preach the gospel to the heathen English, and in 1997 the fourteen hundredth anniversary of his com...

Hardly a day passes in which we don't hear a news story involving freedom of expression or freedom of religion. The meaning of the First Amendment ...

This edition presents in English language, and in convenient-size soft cover volumes, a selection of the most indispensable Christian treatises wri...

American evangelicalism is at a crisis point. The naked grasping at political power at the expense of moral credibility has revealed a movement in ...

In 1800 most Christians lived in Europe or North America, but by 2000 they came from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. ISG 47: Christianity ...

This is a comprehensive introduction to Quakerism which balances a history of the theology of the Quakers or Friends with an overview of present da...

These important and incisive essays, spanning more than two decades of research and engagement, probe facets and episodes of infant baptisms fortun...

Modern people tend to be enamored with the present: what is new, innovative, and exciting. Even many Christians cut themselves off from the past, r...

Christians live in the house built by the church fathers. The fathers' reading of the Scriptures shaped key doctrines that are essential to Christi...

Many people today would say that Christianity has done more harm than good to our world. Sharon James argues, however, in seeking to love their nei...

The Bible in the English language is among the great achievements of all time, not only as a masterpiece of inspired writing but as a witness to th...

Historical theology is the study of the development of Christian doctrine and tradition from the Bible, by the church, and for the church. Church, ...

Generations injects fresh energy into tired debates about England's plural and protracted Reformations by adopting the fertile concept of generatio...

Gargoyles are an architectural feature designed to throw rainwater clear of the walls of a building. Widely used on medieval churches, these water ...

Enter God’s Story of Faithfulness to His People The Christian faith extends beyond our personal experiences, our individual churches, and far beyon...

Enter God’s Story of Faithfulness to His People The Christian faith extends beyond our personal experiences, our individual churches, and far beyon...

By locating Christian Zionism firmly within the Evangelical tradition, Paul Wilkinson takes issue with those who have portrayed it as a 'totally un...

Who are the Puritans? Why are they important for me today? If you have asked questions like these and still await adequate answers, this book is fo...

New England is full of history, not least of which is its rich Christian tradition. New England was home to the Great Awakening of the eighteenth c...

In This Follow-Up to Gospel People, Michael Reeves Calls Evangelicals Away from Pharisaism to True Reformation Scripture warns believers of hypocri...

Rick Renner's book Dressed To Kill is considered by many to be a true classic on the subject of scriptural warfare. The original version, which sol...

The Reformation era has long been seen as crucial in developing the institutions and society of the English-speaking peoples, and study of the Tudo...

This book tells the life stories of the more familiar saints, the associated folklore, the patronage, the emblems, the place names, the shrines and...

Recorded only by dotted lines on an Ordnance Survey map, or sometimes marked on the land by half-forgotten mossy stones, parish boundaries are a fa...

In most towns and villages the parish church is the oldest and most interesting building. No two churches are quite alike; each one is a unique wor...

What exactly is an abbey and does it differ from a priory? This book clarifies the seeming confusion by answering these questions and much more bes...

Long the dominant religion of the West, Christianity is now rapidly becoming the principal faith in much of the postcolonial world—a development th...

The aim of this volume is twofold. First, it is to provide European Baptists with a useful reference work concerning their own heritage, their comm...

America was founded on the concept of the innate and inalienable rights of humankind. Many Christians see an echo of the imago Dei--that every huma...

The period covered by this book (AD 381-451) is the first in which the church can be said to have exercised a dominant role in political history. F...

The period covered by this book (AD 381–451) is the first in which the church can be said to have exercised a dominant role in political history. F...

The parish church is a symbol of continuity, a cornerstone of the urban and rural landscape, and a treasure trove often as rich in cultural history...

This book takes a close look at the rapid growth of evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity in the southern hemisphere, discusses how Christianity...

With the increasing disappearance of stained glass in medieval churches, the surviving wood carvings on church misericords and bench ends are extre...

A great number of monuments dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries can be seen in cathedrals and churches throughout England, and they ...

Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England addresses the rich, complex, and varied nature of...

Many Christians believe that church history belongs in the past. Pastor Dayton Hartman disagrees. He argues that church history is not old news, bu...

A choice confronts Christians in every generation: Will we stray from the truth to gain the world’s approval or stay the course at all costs? Here,...