Church History category: 3031 books
The Third Miracle
An Ordinary Man, a Medical Mystery, and a Trial of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Part detective story and part courtroom drama—with a touch of the supernatural—The Third Miracle exposes, for the first time ever, the secret rituals and investigations the CatholicChurch today undertakes in order to determine sainthood.
On a raw January 2001 morning at a Catholic convent deep...
by The Twelve Apostles
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, commonly known as Didachē, which means "Teaching," is a brief early Christian treatise, dated by most scholars to the late first or early 2nd century A.D. The text, parts of which may have constituted the first written catechism, has three main sections dealing with...
The Reformation
How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2007
Mention history and some might struggle to stifle a yawn. But when presented as a narrative it can often be compelling reading. Stephen J. Nichols takes a key period in time, the Reformation, and presents its major players in a fresh way. From Martin Luther, a simple monk who wielded the mallet, to...
by Norman Russell
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
If Theophilus of Alexandria seems a minor figure today, it is because we persist in seeing him through the eyes of hostile contemporary witnesses, each of whom had his own reasons for diminishing Theophilus’ stature. In fact, he was one of the greatest bishops of the Theodosian era, who played an...
Salem Witch Judge
The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 1692 Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. The nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts represent a low point of American history, made famous in works by Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne (himself a descendant of one of the judges), and...
Massacre at Sand Creek
How Methodists Were Involved in an American Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Sand Creek.
At dawn on the morning of November 29, 1864, Colonel John Milton Chivington gave the command that led to slaughter of 230 peaceful Cheyennes and Arapahos—primarily women, children, and elderly—camped under the protection of the U. S. government along Sand Creek in Colorado Territory...
They Came for Freedom
The Forgotten, Epic Adventure of the Pilgrims
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A page-turning story of the Pilgrims, the courageous band of freedom-seekers who set out for a new life for themselves and forever changed the course of history.
Once a year at Thanksgiving, we encounter Pilgrims as folksy people in funny hats before promptly forgetting them. In the centuries...
by Sam Haselby
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism. Following U.S. independence, the new republic...
by Paul Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New...
by J. M. Hussey ; Andrew Louth
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
This book describes the role of the medieval Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (c.600-c.1453). As an integral part of its policy it was (as in western Christianity) closely linked with many aspects of everyday life both official and otherwise. It was a formative period for Orthodoxy. It had...
The Story of Christianity
A History of 2000 Years of the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
In The Story of Christianity, acclaimed theologian David Bentley Hart provides a sweeping and informative portrait of a faith that has shaped the western world and beyond for over 2,000 years.
From the persecutions of the early church to the papal-imperial conflicts of the Middle Ages, from...
The Ransom of the Soul
Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year A Tablet Book of the Year Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome’s...
Forbidden Religion
Suppressed Heresies of the West
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
Reveals the thread that unites the spiritual paths that have opposed orthodox religion over the centuries and the challenge they provide to the status quo
• Contains 40 essays by 18 key investigators of heresies and suppressed spiritual traditions, including Steven Sora, Ian Lawton, Jeff...
One Nation Under God
How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era
We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally...