The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine

Eusebius' account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, traces the history of the Church from the time of Christ to the Great Persecution at the beginning of the fourth century, and ends with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine.

The Confessions of St. Augustine

Confessions is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace. Writing as a sinner, not a saint, Augustine shares his innermost thoughts and conversion experiences and wrestles with the spiritual questions that have stirred the hearts of the thoughtful since time began. Starting with his childhood in Numidia, through his youth and early adulthood …

The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

This volume is designed specifically 'for the general educated reader'. Here are great figures of the Reformation: Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Knox, and Cramer. Here are great events: the Diet of Worms, the Institution of the Holy Commonwealth of Geneva, Henry VIII's break with Rome, William the Silent's struggle for Dutch independence. Here are great doctrines that created or grew out of the Prot…

The Golden Door: The Life of Katharine Drexel

This is a biography of a member of the prominent Drexel family of Philadelphia who devoted her immense fortune and her life to the services of others, and in the black habit of a nun was content to walk “simple, silent and unknown.” Granddaughter of the first Francis Drexel, who built up one of the large financial empires of our country, Katharine Drexel grew up in ease, even in luxury.…

Christianity through the centuries

Edition

2

ISBN/ISSN

0-310-38360-9

Collation

Hard cover, 507 halaman

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Call Number

R 270.00 C136 C1

Theologies of the American Revivalists: From Whitefield to Finney

For centuries, revivals?and the conversions they inspire?have played a significant role in American evangelicalism. Often unnoticed or unconsidered, however, are the particular theologies underlying these revivals and conversions to faith. With that in mind, church historian Robert Caldwell traces the fascinating story of American revival theologies from the First Great Awakening through the Se…

The Birth of Christianity: The First Twenty Years After Jesus, Vol. 1

"~Contrary to several popular works of Christian scholarship, historian Paul Barnett maintains that the first two decades of Christian history are hardly ""lost years."" As he shows in this penetrating book, the period between Jesus and the earliest Christian texts is open to historical investigation, and he richly details the time and setting in which the church was born. Writing in a very acc…

The Birth of Christianity: The First Twenty Years

Edition

7

ISBN/ISSN

0-8028-2781-0

Collation

Soft Cover, 230 hlmn

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Call Number

F 270.1 B2618 C1

Soul Searching: Chinese Intellectuals on Faith and Society (Horizon)

"~What appeared to be a failed revolution at Tian'anmen became the springboard for an unprecedented work of God in the hearts of Chinese intellectuals. Soul Searching represents the firstfruits of this spiritual revolution among former democracy activists who are finding, in the words of Wang Ce, ""the pearl inside the shell"".~"

Getting To Know The Church Fathers: An Evangelical Introduction

Augustine. Tertullian. Origen. For too many Christians such names are abstract, one-dimensional legends, innocuous voices from antiquity no longer relevant to modern needs and concerns. However, a closer look at these church fathers reveals writers whose reflections on the apostolic teachings edify all generations of believers. Bryan Liftin helps readers understand the fathers as individuals wh…