Religion - Christianity - History

How did Christianity get shared around the world? And how has Christian belief changed over the last 50 years? Providing some of the answers to these and many other questions, this overview charts the 2,000-year-long history of the world's largest religion. A History of...

Authoritative, thorough, and interestingly written, A History of the Amish presents the deep and rich heritage of the Amish people with dozens of illustrations and updated statistics. The Amish, one of America's most intriguingly private, unique, and often misunderstood religious communities, have survived for...

A History of the English Church in New ZealandA commercial message of trifling import may now be flashed in a few minutes from Jerusalem to the Antipodes: the message of Christ's love took nearly eighteen centuries to make the journey. For a time, indeed,...

A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume ITHE history of the Inquisition naturally divides itself into two portions, each of which may be considered as a whole. The Reformation is the boundary-line between them, except in Spain, where the New Inquisition...

A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume IITHE men who laid the foundations of the Inquisition in Languedoc had before them an apparently hopeless task. The whole organization and procedure of the institution were to be developed as experience might dictate...

A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume IIIIN a former chapter we considered the Mendicants as an active agency in the suppression of heresy. One of the Orders, however, by no means restricted itself to this function, and we have now...

A History of the Moravian Church For assistance in the preparation of this second edition, I desire herewith to express my obligations to several friends:To the late Rev. L. G. Hass, B.D., whose knowledge of Moravian history was profound, and who guided me safely...

Minister, teacher and author James Stewart reveals how Paul the Apostle developed the Christian religion in the 1st century AD, shedding light on the emergence of early Christianity.Informed by the author's scholarship, this superb book is based off a series of well-received lectures which...

A beguiling and moving biography of Pier Giorgio Frassati, a handsome, athletic and fun-loving young man from a rich, aristocratic Italian family in the 1920's who was recently beatified by Pope John Paul II. Pier Giorgio turned from a life of privilege to one...

Tells the history of St. Vincent's Hospital and the transformative impact of Catholic health care in New York City. St. Vincent's Hospital began with a simple, but radical mission: to care for all those in need regardless of race, creed, or financial means. For...

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A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the Episcopal Church.What are we as Episcopalians? This concise booklet explores five main areas of Episcopal life: identity, authority, spirituality, temperament, and polity. A great introduction to the Episcopal way of thinking in readable prose for any newcomer or...

The Grassroots Movements That Preserved Jesus's Message of Social Justice for 2,000 Years and Their Impact on the Church TodayFor too long, the history of Christianity has been told as the triumph of orthodox doctrine imposed through power. Now, historian Diana Butler Bass sheds...

Tracing an ancient pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome, the bestselling and "virtuosic" (The Wall Street Journal) writer explores the past and future of Christianity Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to...

A Record of St. Cybi's Church, Holyhead - and the Sermon preached after its Restoration, 1879The old Church of St. Cybi, at Holyhead, which contains so many memorials of the devotion and piety of former generations, has been in this Jubilee year of the...

Marcus Cassianus Varro has spent his life enforcing Rome's peace with an iron hand. But Jerusalem during Passover is a tinderbox-and the arrival of a Galilean teacher known as Jesus strikes the match.Crowds roar His name. Priests whisper of blasphemy. Rome senses rebellion. And...

A Sermon Preach'd upon the Occasion of the Anniversary Thanksgiving of the Fifth of November, 1706 - at the Church of KensingtonThis is the second Instance of my Service made publick upon an Occasion of this Nature. As none can be more pleased with...

A Sermon Preached at Kensington Church, on June the 29th, 1794 - After the Victory Gained at Sea, June the 1stIn a chapter previous to that from whence my text is taken, our blessed Saviour, had been preaching his most excellent sermon on the...

A Short History of Monks and MonasteriesThe aim of this volume is to sketch the history of the monastic institution from its origin to its overthrow in the Reformation period, for although the institution is by no means now extinct, its power was practically...

Church historians have long known and appreciated Christianity's global history. Until recently, however, introductory textbooks on the history of Christianity focused almost exclusively on Europe and North America. Robert Bruce Mullins's A Short World History of Christianity, by contrast, offers a panoramic picture of...