Church History category: 3031 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable women of her day. From early childhood she experienced religious visions, and at the age of eight she entered a cloistered religious life in the Benedictine monastery of Disibondenberg. Eventually she not only became abbess of the community,...
From Times Square to Timbuktu
The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2013
In the last century, amazingly, world Christianity's center of gravity has effectively moved from Europe to a point near Timbuktu in Africa. Never in the history of Christianity has there been such a rapid and dramatic shift in where Christians are located in the world.
Wesley Granberg-Michaelson...
Making Evangelical History
Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
This volume makes a significant contribution to the ‘history of ecclesiastical histories’, with a fresh analysis of historians of evangelicalism from the eighteenth century to the present. It explores the ways in which their scholarly methods and theological agendas shaped their writings.
Each...
by Jonah Whale
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
At the end of 2017, I was studying the book of Exodus in the bible. As I was studying Pharaoh and his stubborn rebellion against God, I couldn’t help but compare his situation to recent American history. The application of this story to recent American history is unmistakable, just like the plagues...
The Writings of Darius Mitteer Ratcliff
Including History of Naples Baptist Church, Naples, Ontario County, New York
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
The poetry in this collection was written by Darius Mitteer Ratcliff and included in letters written to his daughter, Elizabeth Louise Ratcliff Downs, during the 1940s. His writing reflects his total commitment to Christ in every season of life and his love of his family, friends, and the churches and the town that he devoted his life to.
by Winfred Ernest Garrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Winfred Ernest Garrison was a 20th century American minister, and he wrote this history of the Protestant movement known as the Disciples of Christ, a religious movement that swept across the United States.
by Pseudo-Hippolytus
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
The apocalyptic text On the End of the World was penned by an unknown author, likely around the 4th century A.D. Pseudo-Hippolytus, unknown, is not to be confused with Hippolytus of Rome, an early Church father. The name Pseudo-Hippolytus was given to this unknown author to distinguish him from other works by unknown authors which are commonly but incorrectly ascribed to Hippolytus of Rome.
African American Religious History
A Documentary Witness
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2000
This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today. The documents—many of them rare, out-of-print, or difficult...
African American Religious Studies
An Interdisciplinary Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This anthology provides a coherent, interdisciplinary theoretical base for students of African American religious studies and will assist in the design of programs and courses for lay theological education and training. To this end, the editor has assembled material from Old and New Testament studies, theology, church history, pastoral counseling, worship, and social action.
Holy Grounds
The Surprising Connection between Coffee and Faith—From Dancing Goats to Satan's Drink
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
If you're religious about your coffee, you're in holy company.
If you like your coffee with a bit of inspiration, a hint of humor, and a dose of insight, you'll enjoy pouring a mug full of java and curling up with Holy Grounds. Popular author and avid coffee drinker Tim Schenck brews just the...
Planting the Cross
Catholic Reform and Renewal in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
The first thing that Catholic religious orders did when they arrived in a town to establish a new community was to plant the cross--to erect a large wooden cross where the church was to stand. The cross was a contested symbol in the civil wars that reduced France to near anarchy in the sixteenth century....
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
In 1099, the soldiers of the First Crusade took Jerusalem. As the news of this victory spread throughout Medieval Europe, it felt nothing less than miraculous and dream-like, to such an extent that many believed history itself had been fundamentally altered by the event and that the Rapture was at...
The Crusades
An Epitome
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
This sweeping yet succinct new survey introduces readers to the history of the crusades from the eleventh to the twenty-first century. By synthesizing a variety of historical perspectives, the book deliberately locates crusading in the broader history of the Mediterranean, moving away from approaches...
by Mario Escobar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2014
¿Cómo resumir la historia de 520 millones de personas? ¿Cómo condensar en un libro 112 años de historia del movimiento pentecostal y carismático? ¿Cómo narrar los 100 años de historia de las Asambleas de Dios en el mundo y los 50 años de historia en España? Déjeme que le cuente una historia:...