Church History category: 3031 books
Signs And Wonders (abridged)
Special abridged edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Maria Woodworth-Etter was a lady born out of due time. Her powerful Pentecostal ministry pre-dates the beginning of the Pentecostal Movement which started over 20 years after her ministry began in 1876. She was then a member of the United Brethren Church. Later, she joined the Methodist Holiness Church...
Going Clear
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
National Book Award Finalist
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former...
The Pope and the Heretic
The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Giordano Bruno challenged everything in his pursuit of an all-embracing system of thought. This not only brought him patronage from powerful figures of the day but also put him in direct conflict with the Catholic Church. Arrested by the Inquisition and tried as a heretic, Bruno was imprisoned, tortured,...
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Martin Luther and the Day that Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This new book by religion scholar Martin Marty, released in time for the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, shows how Martin Luther’s insights still speak to the church today about reconciliation, repentance and the need for "a change of heart." Included are the 95 Theses...
Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History
The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Avihu Zakai analyzes Jonathan Edwards's redemptive mode of historical thought in the context of the Enlightenment. As theologian and philosopher, Edwards has long been a towering figure in American intellectual history. Nevertheless, and despite Edwards's intense engagement with the nature of time...
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity
White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals claimed spiritual fellowship with those of African descent, they nonetheless emerged as the most effective defenders of race-based slavery.
As...
Christian Women in the Patristic World
Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second through Fifth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
From facing wild beasts in the arena to governing the Roman Empire, Christian women--as preachers and philosophers, martyrs and empresses, virgins and mothers--influenced the shape of the church in its formative centuries. This book provides in a single volume a nearly complete compendium of extant...
by St. Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Augustine of Hippo (November 13, 354 August 28, 430), also known as St. Augustine, was Bishop of Hippo Regius. He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province. His writings were very influential in the development of Western Christianity. According to his contemporary,...
Christianity in Roman Africa
The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
In-depth, illustrated exploration of how early North African Christians lived out their faith
Using a combination of literary and archeological evidence, this in-depth, illustrated book documents the development of Christian practices and doctrine in Roman Africa -- contemporary Libya, Tunisia,...
Fallen Bodies
Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Medieval clerics believed that original sin had rendered their "fallen bodies" vulnerable to corrupting impulses—particularly those of a sexual nature. They feared that their corporeal frailty left them susceptible to demonic forces bent on penetrating and polluting their bodies and souls.
Drawing...
Nelsons New Christian Dictionary
The Authoritative Resource on the Christian World
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2001
This dictionary provides definitions for over 7,000 terms and names in the history of Christianity. The topics range from the foundational theological developments of the early church to the divisions of the Protestant Reformation to the missionary enterprises of the last two centuries. Nelson's Dictionary...
by Fernando Cervantes
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
The Inquisition has become a byword for persecution and intolerance, and is often given as a reason for distrusting the Catholic Church. This ebook looks at what led up to this most controversial chapter in the Church's history, what really happened during it, and what changes of perspective led to Pope John Paul's famous apology in 1997.
by B. B. Warfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
It was inevitable that the energy of the Church in intellectually realizing and defining its doctrines in relation to one another, should first be directed towards the objective side of Christian truth. The chief controversies of the first four centuries and the resulting definitions of doctrine,...
Revival Fires and Awakenings, Thirty-Six Visitations of the Holy Spirit
A Call to Holiness, Prayer and Intercession for the Nations
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Updated in 2017. Revival Fires and Awakenings spans four centuries and features 36 accounts of revivals and awakenings in eighteen countries on six continents, plus those from the Holy Bible. Whilst each revival is different, the author reveals the common characteristics and reoccurring experiences,...