Church History category: 3031 books
Sacred Signs in Reformation Scotland
Interpreting Worship, 1488-1590
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Sacred Signs in Reformation Scotland is the first study of how public worship was interpreted in Renaissance Scotland and offers a radically new way of understanding the Scottish Reformation. It first defines the history and method of 'liturgical interpretation' (using the methods of medieval Biblical...
by Fr Charles Dilke
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This booklet looks at how the Mass has changed and developed over the centuries, and how changes have occurred at different times in the Church's history, up to and including recent changes by Pope Benedict XVI.
The Rise and Fall of the Christian Myth
Restoring Our Democratic Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This book is the culmination of a lifelong scholarly inquiry into Christian history, religion as a social institution, and the role of myth in the history of religions. Mack shows that religions are essentially mythological and that Christianity in particular has been an ever-changing mythological engine...
Suffering and Evil in Early Christian Thought (Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History)
Suffering and Evil in Early Christian Thought (Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History)
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Distinguished Scholars Explore Early Christian Views on the Problem of Evil
What did the early church teach about the problem of suffering and evil in the world? In this volume, distinguished historians and theologians explore a range of ancient Christian responses to this perennial problem....
by Ray Eichenberger
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
God's laws are the roots of American law! In this book, a Christian lawyer analyzes the foundations of American law as the law of the Bible, and demonstrates how far the modern American legal system has strayed from its original purposes. This work is a hard-hitting tour de force beginning with...
Augustine, the Trinity, and the Church
A Reading of the Anti-Donatist Sermons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The legacy of Augustine of Hippo (354-430) continues to shape Western Christian language about both the Trinity and the Church, yet scholars rarely treat these two topics as related in his work. In Augustine, the Trinity, and the Church, Adam Ployd argues that Augustine's ecclesiology drew upon his...
Minor Setback or Major Disaster?
The Rise and Demise of Minor Seminaries in the United States, 1958-1983
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Minor Setback or Major Disaster presents the history of minor seminaries from the concept’s inception following the sixteenth-century Council of Trent’s mandate for a new training method for the Catholic priesthood up to the present. It describes the function and purpose of the “minor seminary,”...
Polycentric Missiology
21st-Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary Conference was the most famous missions conference in modern church history. A century later, five conferences on five continents displayed the landscape of global mission at the dawn of the third millennium: Tokyo 2010, Edinburgh 2010, Cape Town 2010, 2010Boston,...
by Bernard Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2003
This book examines the way in which Christianity spread throughout the known world in the Middle Ages and also explores the great variety of forms which it took. It spans the centuries from A.D. 312, when Constantine the Great ended the persecution of the Church, to 1500, when European overseas expansion...
A Call to Mission - A History of the Jesuits in China 1842-1954
Volume 2: The Wider European and American Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
China has bulked large in the imagination of the Catholic Church for 500 years. It had been central to the missionary dream of the Jesuits for almost as long. However, only with this book's appearance has the detailed focus of attention shifted to the substantial and neglected period of catholic and...
A Call to Mission - A History of the Jesuits in China 1842-1954
Volume I: The French Romance
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
China has bulked large in the imagination of the Catholic Church for 500 years. It had been central to the missionary dream of the Jesuits for almost as long. However, only with this book's appearance has the detailed focus of attention shifted to the substantial and neglected period of catholic and...
Rediscovering the Reformation
Learning From the One Church In Its Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
This book will approach the Reformation from the perspective on last year's Spring Harvest theme, 'One in Christ', and therefore look not at how or why the church split, or whether the church should have split, but from the perspective that the church cannot split because it is Christ's one body....
by John Foxe
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
An early English Protestant, John Foxe fled from England to Strasbourg, France, when Mary Tudor became queen. There, he occupied himself with a Latin history of the Christian persecutions and he printed, in Latin, the first part of his history of the persecution of Protestant reformers. First published...
Among the Ruins
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This critical review of the Roman Catholic Church since the pivotal changes initiated in the 1960s by Vatican II paints a disturbing picture of decline and corruption. Dr. Paul L. Williams, a self-professed Tridentine or traditionalist Catholic, traces the various factors that have caused the Church...