Church History category: 3031 books
The Journey to Rome
Conversion Literature by Nineteenth-Century American Catholics
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This title, first published in 1988, examines accounts of religious conversion contained in the personal narratives of nineteenth-century American coverts to Roman Catholicism. Given their newly acquired status as members of an unpopular religious minority, a number of converts recorded their conversion...
by Robert Doran, S.J.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1990
In this challenging work Robert M. Doran explores the basis of systematic theology in consciousness, and goes on to consider the practical role of such theology in establishing and fostering communities with an authentic way of life. This way of life would counteract the distortions and deformations...
Constructing China's Jerusalem
Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of a modern, commercialized economy. In vivid detail, anthropologist Nanlai Cao explores the massive resurgence...
The Philokalia and the Inner Life
On Passions and Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Philokalia was published in Venice in 1782. It is an anthology of patristic writings from the Eastern Church, spanning the 4th to the 15th Centuries, which has been the subsequent focus of a significant revival in Orthodox spirituality. It presents an understanding of psychopathology and mental...
God's Irishmen
Theological Debates in Cromwellian Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
Conflicts between protestants and Catholics intensified as the Cromwellian invasion of 1649 inflamed the blood-soaked antagonism between the English and Irish. In the ensuing decade, half of Ireland's landmass was confiscated while thousands of natives were shipped overseas - all in a bid to provide...
God's Businessmen
Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The evangelical embrace of conservatism is a familiar feature of the contemporary political landscape. What’s less well-known, however, is that the connection predates the Reagan revolution, going all the way back to the Depression and World War II. Evangelical businessmen at the time were quite...
The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies
Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
The essays in this provocative collection exemplify the innovations that have characterized the relatively new field of late ancient studies. Focused on civilizations clustered mainly around the Mediterranean and covering the period between roughly 100 and 700 CE, scholars in this field have brought...
Karl Barth and the Study of the Religious Enlightenment
Encountering the Task of History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Encountering the Task of History analyzes the intellectual history of the eighteenth century provided by Karl Barth, most notably in his Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century. Barth anticipates the recent scholarship on the religious roots, impact, and significance of the Enlightenment, foreshadowing...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Originally published in the 1950s by George Allen & Unwin.
When originally published, these volumes were making available very rare material (tracts and manuscripts etc.) for the very first time. Most of the documents exist in their original state as difficult to locate, read and understand -...
FEAR NOT
Devotionals for Times Like These
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Over 200 stories of God's faithfulness to men and women who weathered the worst.
We live in difficult times! And yet . . . throughout history people of faith have endured tragic circumstances and even martyrdom with extraordinary courage and heroic faith. How? Why? What can we learn from them...
Bible Translation in Suriname
An Overview of its History, Translators, and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The Republic of Suriname has a long and rich heritage of Bible translation spanning more than 250 years, yet very little has been published on its history. In this book Dr Franklin Jabini, a Surinamer as well as a translator himself, provides the reader with a detailed survey of the history of Bible...
by Tim Rumsey
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Is the Protestant Reformation finished? Was it simply a passing “family feud” within Christianity, an insignificant historical footnote with little relevance to modern life? This book masterfully explains the history of the Protestant Reformation and shows that the primary issue behind the Reformation—the...
by Heather A. Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2006
“A great tool to assist the keen Bible student, A Tale of Two Kingdoms carefully traces the unfolding history of salvation described in the Holy Scriptures as it presents the antagonism between the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of Satan. Over the centuries the physical gives way to the spiritual...
by James Caughey
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
From the preface: We present the religious public with another volume, unfolding and illustrating the wonderful success of Mr. Caughey’s labors in his revival efforts. It records the events, incidents, and results, of one of the most remarkable revivals of modern times — the revival in Birmingham,...