Church History category: 3031 books
Theology in Stone
Church Architecture From Byzantium to Berkeley
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2004
Thinking about church architecture has come to an impasse. Reformers and traditionalists are talking past each other. In Theology in Stone , Richard Kieckhefer seeks to help both sides move beyond the standoff toward a fruitful conversation about houses of worship. Drawing on a wide range of historical...
by Harold S. Bender
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
"Judged by the reception it met at the hands of those in power, both in Church and State, equally in Roman Catholic and in Protestant countries, the Anabaptist movement was one of the most tragic in the history of Christianity; but, judged by the principles, which were put into play by the men...
What We Believe Together
Exploring the ?Shared Convictions? of Anabaptist-Related Churches
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Today, more than 1.7 million Christians are members of Mennonite-related churches. They are scattered across eighty-three countries. They trace their history to the Anabaptist movement, a part of the sixteenth-century Radical Reformation in Europe.
What beliefs do these heirs of the free-church...
by Frank Graziano
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This interpretive guide combines history and ethnography to represent living traditions at the adobe and stone churches of New Mexico. Each chapter treats a particular church or group of churches and includes photographs, practical information for visitors, and context pertinent to current understanding....
A Historical Sketch of the Brethren Movement
An Account of its Inception, Progress, Principles and Failures and its Lessons for Present Day Believers
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
H. A. Ironside’s history of the so-called “Plymouth Brethren” stands today as one of the best and probably most readable histories of the movement ever written. Not only is it readable, but it is honest, and fair. This is a warts-and-all account written by a man who had a deep love for the movement...
Encountering the History of Missions (Encountering Mission)
From the Early Church to Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This new addition to a highly acclaimed series portrays the sweep of missions history, revealing how God has fulfilled his promise to bless all the nations. Two leading missionary scholars and experienced professors help readers understand how missions began, how missions developed, and where missions...
What is God Doing?
Lessons from Church History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
We have a tremendous heritage of movements of God. While the movements have died, crystalized and become institutionalized, the actual recovery is still with us. Thank God it is the Lord Jesus who said “I will build My church,” and what He is recovering, He is recovering.
It is never lost again.
In...
A People's History of Christianity
From the Early Church to the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
On its release, the seven volume A People’s History of Christianity was lauded for its commitment to raising awareness of the ways in which ordinary Christians have lived throughout more than twenty centuries of Christian History. Now, the essential material from that important project is available...
by Jim Petersen
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
By habit, the church has come to mean a place where we congregate. But that understanding causes us to miss one of our primary reasons for being in the world. In Church Without Walls, author Jim Petersen offers an exciting definition of the church that pushes beyond the too-small boundaries we've...
Anabaptist Songs in African Hearts
A Global Mennonite History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
When church histories of Africa have been written, they've usually been done by Westerners. These writers have typically been missionaries or relief workers; their analyses and conclusions have reflected those perspectives. This book -- by contrast -- is written by Africans. Each writer is an African...
Liberty in the Things of God
The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke
In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious...
The Indian Christians of St. Thomas Otherwise Called the Syrian Christians of Malabar
A Sketch of Their History, and an Account of Their Present Condition, as Well as a Discussion of the Legend of St. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
PREFACE
AT the request of my friend, the author of this book, I write these few lines to introduce him and his work. Dr. Richards has been a missionary of the Church Missionary Society in Travancore since 1871. He was at different times Vice-Principal of the Society’s College at Cottayam,...
Malachi's Message to God's Church Today
A message to God's true Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This is a story about God’s Church gone off track, and what God did to correct the tragedy.
In this booklet: • A Call to Remembrance • Hold Fast • Laodicean Era • Following Elijah • End-Time Joshua in Bondage • "Man of Sin" • "Prophecy Not" • Church Division • Malachi's Message
Old or New School Methodism?
The Fragmentation of a Theological Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
On September 7, 1881, Matthew Simpson, Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in a London sermon asserted that, "As to the divisions in the Methodist family, there is little to mar the family likeness." Nearly a quarter-century earlier, Benjamin Titus (B.T.) Roberts, a minister in the same branch...