Church History category: 3031 books
by Todd Gaddis
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
The mere mention of the word church generates a wide range of reactions in this secular, post-Christian, consumer-driven society in which we live. Many people respond favorably because they are actively involved and often center their lives around the church. Others grimace, either from guilt that...
The Eternal Divorce
Church History and Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The centuries-old debate over what role, if any, religion has in public schools has been supported and refuted in many legal, educational and religious arenas. For many of us who attended school- both pre- and post separation of church and state- have had the opportunity to experience public schools...
by Charlotte M. Yonge
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Charlotte M. Yonge was one of the most prodigious novelists of the 19th century, and though many of her books have long since gone out of print, some of her works are still read around the world today, including The Heir of Redclyffe, Heartsease and The Daisy Chain.
Between Exaltation and Infamy
Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2002
One day in 1599, in the Spanish village of Saria, seven-year-old Maria Angela Astorch fell ill and died after gorging herself on unripened almonds. Maria's sister Isabel, a nun, came to view the body with her mother superior, an ecstatic mystic and visionary named Maria Angela Serafina. Overcome by...
The Story of Radio Mind
A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, a settler-mystic living on northwest coast of British Columbia invented radio mind: Frederick Du Vernet—Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist—announced a psychic channel by which minds could telepathically communicate across distance. Retelling...
Christianity in Suriname
An Overview of its History, Theologians and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
The Republic of Suriname, located in northern South America has a rich and diverse history going back several centuries. This has seen the introduction of Christianity and the establishment and creation of many church denominations. To date, major theological works have failed to provide correct,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
John Henry Newman (1801-1890) has always inspired devotion. Newman has made disciples as leader of the Catholic revival in the Church of England, an inspiration to fellow converts to Roman Catholicism, a nationally admired preacher and prose-writer, and an internationally recognized saint of the Catholic...
Revival and Awakening
American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Most Americans have little understanding of the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East. They assume that the two are rooted fundamentally in regional history, not in the history of contact with the broader world. However, as Adam H. Becker shows in this book, Americans—through...
The People of the Parish
Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
The parish, the lowest level of hierarchy in the medieval church, was the shared responsibility of the laity and the clergy. Most Christians were baptized, went to confession, were married, and were buried in the parish church or churchyard; in addition, business, legal settlements, sociability, and...
Revered and Reviled
A Re-Examination of Vatican Council I
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Revered and Reviled explores the ways that Vatican Council I influenced the important issues of papal primacy and the infallible teaching magisterium of the Pope. The book clarifies and corrects many misunderstood concepts and conclusions about the first Council. Although this is, first and foremost,...
St. Polycarp's Epistle to the Philippians and The Martyrdom of Polycarp
Edited with Notes and Commentary by Rev. Aaron Simms
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
St. Polycarp was the Christian bishop of Smyrna in the second century AD. He was taught by the Apostle John himself, therefore representing the next generation of Christians after the Apostles. He in turn taught St. Irenaeus who would become bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul (modern-day Lyon in France).
In...
The First and Second Apologies of Justin Martyr
Edited with Notes and Commentary by Rev. Aaron Simms
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Justin Martyr was a mid-second century Christian writer. A Greek-speaking Gentile, he was born in Flavia Neapolis (present day Nablus) in Samaria and was martyred around 165 AD in Rome. In approximately 150 AD, he wrote his First and Second Apologies as defenses of the Christian faith. Justin addressed...
Tertullian's Defense of the Christian Faith
Edited with Notes and Commentary by Rev. Aaron Simms
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Tertullian was a Christian writer who lived in the Roman province of Africa at the end of the second century and beginning of the third century AD. He wrote his Apology or “Defense of the Christian Faith” during the joint rule of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus with his imperial peer Caracalla...
Athenagoras' Embassy for the Christians and On the Resurrection of the Dead
Edited with Notes and Commentary by Rev. Aaron Simms
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Athenagoras of Athens was a Christian writer who lived in the Roman empire from approximately 133 to 190 AD. He was well-versed in Greek philosophy and may have been a Platonist philosopher prior to his conversion to the Christian faith.
This edition in the St. Polycarp Church Fathers Series...