Church history books

This 1934 work is an outstanding example of the mining of medieval administrative sources to reveal new aspects...  Read More >>

Werner Elert and Hans Joachim Iwand, two Lutheran theologians who were deeply engaged in the Lutheran renaissance...  Read More >>

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An annotated critical edition of an unpublished collection of hymnographical texts, preserved in the 11th-12th-century...  Read More >>

Gregory Graybill charts the progression of Phillipp Melanchthon's position on free will and divine predestination...  Read More >>

The life and career of Jocelin of Wells examined, with a particular emphasis on his role in the reconstruction of...  Read More >>

This collection offers fresh perspectives on British and American preaching in the nineteenth century. Drawing on...  Read More >>

Scheduled to appear in 10 volumes, this scholarly edition of Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (1693-1728) makes...  Read More >>

Written in 1855 from the unusual perspective of a freed slave turned linguist and clergyman, this eventful journal...  Read More >>

Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa (1842) is an autobiographical account of missionary activity among...  Read More >>

In this book, first published in 1862, Edward Bean Underhill gives a very positive report on his visit to the West...  Read More >>

The sixteenth-century Jesuit Francis Xavier was invoked as the patron saint of Catholic missionaries as a result...  Read More >>

A fascinating chronicle of shipwreck, plagues, cannibalism and narrow escapes from enraged natives and natural disaster,...  Read More >>

Volume 2 of this three-volume 1888 publication by the influential American historian Henry Charles Lea explores...  Read More >>

The second edition of this biography of the Anglican missionary Henry Martyn (1781–1812) was published in 1819,...  Read More >>

This 1889 biography by the Jesuit Richard F. Clarke covers the career of Charles Lavigerie (1825–1892), French cardinal,...  Read More >>

Volume 3 of this three-volume 1888 publication by the influential American historian Henry Charles Lea focuses on...  Read More >>

David Brainerd (1718-1747) dedicated much of his short life to preaching the gospel to Native American tribes in...  Read More >>

Volume 1 of this influential three-volume 1888 publication explores the background to the Inquisition. It gives...  Read More >>

Through an examination of the rite and practice of consecrating (dedication) churches in eleventh-century Italy,...  Read More >>

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Focuses on the ideas of W.B. Yeats and explores his thinking on a wide range of fundamental subjects. In this book,...  Read More >>

AIDS, Sexuality, and the Black Church  Read More >>

This Festschrift is presented to Father Angelo Lazzarotto P.I.M.E. on the occasion of his 85th birthday on May 14,...  Read More >>

Medieval Christians knew the past primarily through what they saw and heard. History was reenacted every year in...  Read More >>