Church History category: 3031 books
The Vatican Exposed
Money, Murder, and the Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Over 50 billion dollars in securities. Gold reserves that exceed those of industrialized nations. Real estate holdings that equal the total area of many countries. Opulent palaces containing the world's greatest art treasures. These are some of the riches of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet in 1929...
We Gather Together
The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The story of the birth of the Religious Right is a familiar one. In the 1970s, mainly in response to Roe v. Wade, evangelicals and conservative Catholics put aside their longstanding historical prejudices and theological differences and joined forces to form a potent political movement that swept...
When Christians Were Jews
The First Generation
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
A compelling account of Christianity’s Jewish beginnings, from one of the world’s leading scholars of ancient religion
How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating...
by Phineas F. Bresee
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
1903 was a good year for Phineas Bresee, and also God's people. In this year, his church in Los Angeles moved into a proper facility across town, and also began an aggressive move toward church planting. It was from this year forward that the Church of the Nazarene began to grow into what it was later...
Brand Luther
How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, on the eve of the Reformation’s 500th anniversary
When Martin Luther posted his “theses” on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months,...
Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church
The findings of the investigation that inspired the major motion picture Spotlight
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
The story behind this groundbreaking book--one of the most significant works of investigative journalism since Woodward and Bernstein's reporting on Watergate--has been brought brilliantly to life on the screen in the major new movie Spotlight,...
by William Chester Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
"The Penguin History of Europe series... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects."--New Statesman
It was an age of hope and possibility, of accomplishment and expansion. Europe's High Middle Ages spanned the Crusades, the building of Chartres Cathedral, Dante's Inferno,...
Monks, the Pope, and the Origins of the Crusades
A Selection from Christianity (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A fascinating history of the growth in monastic and papal power that preceded the Crusades—excerpted from Diarmaid MacCulloch’s award-winning New York Times bestseller, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years.
A product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill, Diarmaid...
by Martin E Marty
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
For fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed...
Spies in the Vatican
Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2002
Revered by millions, the Papacy is an international power that many nations have viewed with suspicion, some have tried to control, and not a few have spied upon. Ranging across two centuries of world history, David Alvarez’s fascinating study throws open the Vatican's doors to reveal the startling...
by Gary A. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
What is sin? Is it simply wrongdoing? Why do its effects linger over time? In this sensitive, imaginative, and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition. Spanning nearly two thousand years, the book brilliantly demonstrates...
by Vera Shevzov
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Orthodox Christianity in Russia has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence. Many Russians are now looking to the history of their faith as they try to rebuild a lost way of life. Vera Shevzov has spent ten years researching Orthodoxy as it was lived in the years before...
by Gary Wonning
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Throughout man's long history on earth,there has been one group of people who have carried the torch of liberty and freedom throughout the ages , from time immemorial until the present day. In these days their counsel is need more than ever.
by Thomas A. Fudge
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The life and work of Jerome of Prague have been overlooked outside Czech historiography, but represent an important chapter in the understanding of late medieval European history. Thomas A. Fudge makes a case for the central importance of Jerome, peer of Jan Hus, by reconstructing his biography using...