Church History category: 3031 books
Quest for the Historical Apostles
Tracing Their Lives and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The stories and contributions of the apostles provide an important entrée into church history. This comprehensive historical and literary introduction uncovers their lives and legacies, underscoring the apostles' impact on the growth of the early church. The author collects and distills the histories,...
by Ellen White
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Ellen Gould White (November 26, 1827 July 16, 1915) was a prolific author and an American Christian pioneer. She, along with other Sabbatarian Adventist leaders, such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, went on to form the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Ellen White reported to her fellow believers...
Metropolitan Petros of Astoria
A Microcosm of the Old Calendar Movement in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
This work examines the career of Metropolitan Petros (Astyfides) of Astoria (1915-1997), the founder of St. Markella’s Cathedral and first bishop of the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of America (also known as the Greek Old Calendarist Church). Metropolitan Petros’s life spans the entire...
The Didache (English and Greek text)
The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Didache is one of the earliest Christian documents outside the New Testament, probably written in the late first or early second century AD. It deals with early Christian teaching on ethics, baptism, fasting, the eucharist and church life. An incredibly important and illuminating primary source...
Churches Engage Asian Traditions
A Global Mennonite History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Churches Engage Asian Traditions is the first comprehensive history of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches in Asia. From the first Mennonite church in Asia in 1851, to 265,000 Mennonites and Brethren in Christ church members in 13 countries today. From the Introduction to the volume: This vast...
Johann Arndt
A Prophet of Lutheran Pietism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This is the story of the most significant devotional author of the seventeenth century in his first full English language biography. Using previously unknown letters as a few of the resources, this story aims to recreate the theological, sometimes magical, and social worlds of Johann Arndt.
Arndt...
Beyond Indulgences
Luther’s Reform of Late Medieval Piety, 15181520
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Between Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 and his excommunication from the church in 1520, he issued twenty-five sermons and treatises on Christian piety, most of them in German. These pastoral writings extended his criticisms of the church beyond indulgences to the practices of confession, prayer,...
Mission and Migration
A Global Mennonite History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Mission and Migration is the first comprehensive history to be written by Latin American Mennonite historians about Mennonite church life in Central and South Americas from its beginnings. From the Introduction to the volume: "The story of the coming of Anabaptist-descended churches to Latin America...
by David W Shenk
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Islam and Christianity seem to be at opposite and unbridgeable poles, both committed to world mission. Given the political tension and violent acts that sometimes surround these two major world religions, it is essential for both sides to understand the otherits history, beliefs, traditions, and vision...
by Caradoc of Llangarfan
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Caradoc of Llancarfan was a Welsh cleric and author who was associated with Llancarfan in Wales during the 12th century. He is generally accepted to be the author of a Life of Gildas and of a Life of Saint Cadog. Gildas (c. 500 570) was a 6th-century British cleric. He is one of the best-documented...
The Rise and Fall of Triumph
The History of a Radical Roman Catholic Magazine, 1966–1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This is a history of Triumph—a post-Vatican II, Roman Catholic lay magazine—that examines its origins and decline, paying special attention to the editors’ often bellicose views on a range of issues, from Church affairs to the Vietnam War, and civil rights to abortion. Triumph’s editors formed...
A Church Undone
Documents from the German Christian Faith Movement, 1932-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Decades after the Holocaust, many assume that the churches in Germany resisted the Nazi regime. In fact, resistance was exceptional. Almost all Germans were Christians, and almost all Christians in Germany stood by, becoming intentionally or unintentionally complicit in Nazi policies and practices.
In...
One in Christ
Chicago Catholics and the Quest for Interracial Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Today, the images of Catholic priests and nuns marching in 1960s civil rights protests are iconic. Their cassocks and habits clothed the movement in sacred garments. But by the time of those protests Catholic Civil Rights activism already had a long history, one in which the religious leadership of...
by Steven M. Nolt
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
A revealing look at the venerable Anabaptist community.
The Amish, one of America’s most intriguingly private, unique, and often misunderstood religious communities, have survived for three hundred years! How has that happened?
While much has been written on the Amish, little has been...