Church History category: 3031 books
Raising the Ruins
The fight to revive the legacy of Herbert W. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Herbert W. Armstrong was the world's leading televangelist and one of the most prominent religious leaders of the 20th century, watched, read and followed by millions worldwide. But his legacy of Bible-based humanitarianism came under attack after he died. The cabal of leaders who took control of...
Absolute Monarchs
A History of the Papacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
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In a chronicle that captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and intrigue, John Julius Norwich recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world. Norwich...
The Templars
The History and the Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Arguably one of the most provocative, puzzling, and misunderstood organizations of medieval times, the legendary Knights Templar have always been shrouded in a veil of mystery, while inspiring popular culture from Indiana Jones to Dan Brown. In The Templars, author Michael Haag offers a definitive...
Born Bad
Original Sin and the Making of the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The sweeping, 2,000-year history of a controversial idea and the remarkable influence it still wields: “Exceptional, highly recommended” (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).
According to the Christian doctrine of original sin, humans are born inherently bad, and only through God’s...
The Early Church on Killing
A Comprehensive Sourcebook on War, Abortion, and Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
What did the early church believe about killing? What was its view on abortion? How did it approach capital punishment and war? Noted theologian and bestselling author Ron Sider lets the testimony of the early church speak in the first of a three-volume series on biblical peacemaking.
This...
The American Evangelical Story
A History of the Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
The American Evangelical Story surveys the role American evangelicalism has had in the shaping of global evangelical history.
Author Douglas Sweeney begins with a brief outline of the key features that define evangelicals and then explores the roots of the movement in English Pietism and the...
Church Communication Heroes Volume 1
Lessons From Those Who Have Gone Before
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Church communicators need heroes. Someone to look up to. Someone to give a jolt of inspiration, a shot of encouragement, a challenge that we can do more than this.
While mulling over mobile, sizing up strategy and battling bulletins, church communicators need to know we’re not alone. The...
Pagan Christianity?
Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Have you ever wondered why we Christians do what we do for church every Sunday morning? Why do we “dress up” for church? Why does the pastor preach a sermon each week? Why do we have pews, steeples, and choirs? This ground-breaking book, now in affordable softcover, makes an unsettling proposal:...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860) has been described as "the greatest and at the same time the most controversial theologian in German Protestant theology since Schleiermacher." The controversy was epitomized by a nineteenth-century British critic who wrote that his theory "makes...
Sympathetic Puritans
Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars have often understood and presented sentimentalism...
The Catholic Invasion of China
Remaking Chinese Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The culmination of D. E. Mungello’s forty years of study on Sino-Western history, this book provides a compelling and nuanced history of Roman Catholicism in modern China. As the author vividly shows, when China declined into a two-century cycle of poverty, powerlessness, and humiliation, the attitudes...
Presbyterian and Reformed Churches
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
In 1905, Westminster Press published History of the Presbyterian Churches of the World by church historian Richard Clark Reed (18511925). Reed’s book, intended as a textbook for college and seminary students, covered the history of churches that subscribed to Presbyterian polity from the New Testament...
The Birth of the New Testament Church
On the Cross or at Pentecost
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
When Jesus Christ bowed His head on the cross and declared, “It is finished,” this was inclusive of the purpose of His suffering, redemption of the world, and the giving of birth to the New Testament church.
Therefore, it defies reason to say that the church was born on Pentecost, rather...
by E. De Pressense
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
It is our aim to present as full a picture as possible of this period, commencing with the apostolic age, which is so little understood, either from religious indifference or because of the unintelligent...