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Why a Creed?
A Conversation with Robert Louis Wilken
Robert Louis Wilken
Who Came to the Council of Nicaea?
D. H. Williams
Which Creed is Which?
Turning Point
Edinburgh 1910: A Faith for All the World
The Road to Nicaea
The Council of Nicaea Strove to Answer one of the Central Questions of the Christian Faith, but it also Proved that Theology is Never a Tidy Buisiness
John Anthony Mcguckin
Living History
Compiled By Chris Armstrong
Literary Time Travel
As a scholar and a teacher, Lewis sought to see the present through the eyes of the past.
Bruce L. Edwards
Knights & Martyrs
The medieval tradition of chivalry gave Lewis a unique perspective on the proper Christian response to war.
Michael Ward
India: Recommended Resources
How Arianism Almost Won
After Nicaea, the Real Fight Began
Christopher A. Hall
Debating Jesus' Divinity: Did You Know?
Interresting and Unusual Facts about the Council of Nicaea
Compiled by Steven Gertz, D. H. Williams, and John Anthony McGuckin
Changed Lives
Why read Christian biography?
John Piper
Athanasius
Pugnacious Defender of Orthodoxy
Patrick Henry Rardon
George MacDonald: Christian History Timeline
C.S. Lewis: Did You Know?
Interesting and Unusual Facts about C. S. Lewis
Compiled by Robert Trexler and Jennifer Trafton
C.S. Lewis: From the Editor
Carpets, Wardrobes, and the Glory of the Real
Jennifer Trafton
Campus Ministry Cambridge Style
The roots of InterVarsity and other evangelical college clubs.
Collin Hansen
Mind in Motion
He tasted many philosophies, but he was always stuck on reality.
J. I. Packer and Jerry Root
Hearts in Training
Lewis employed his imaginative gifts to dispel his readers' illusions and educate their feelings.
Doris T. Myers
Making Doctrine Dance
Why Lewis defied convention and opposition in order to bring Christian truth into the public arena.
Christopher Mitchell
C.S. Lewis: Christian History Timeline
C.S. Lewis: His Life & His Works
The Postman's Knock
Lewis scaled a mountain of mail with wisdom, wit, and courtesy.
Andrew Cuneo
The Way of Friendship
What an Oxford don learned in the "school of virtue."
Colin Duriez
The Great Iconoclast
Lewis had always believed that God shatters our images. But the death of his wife put his faith to the ultimate test.
Jerry Root and Jennifer Trafton
The Jack I Knew
A Conversation with Douglas Gresham
C.S. Lewis: Recommended Resources
Dorothy Sayers: "The dogma is the drama"
People Worth Knowing
An interview with Barbara Reynolds by Chris Armstrong
India: Did You Know?
Interesting facts about Christianity in India
Steven Gertz et al.
Of Saris and Such
Jennifer Trafton
Living History
Rediscovered Bach aria, buried Saxon church, and digitizing one of the world's oldest New Testament manuscripts
Ted Olsen
Ethiopia: "The Country Blessed of God"
Jeremy Wells
Jesus Was Her Guru
If you don't know the inner strength of an Indian woman with a divine call, you haven't met Pandita Ramabai.
Keith J. White
The Trailblazer
The first evangelical missionary to India set out to prove that the gospel does not destroy culture but transforms it from within.
Daniel Jeyaraj
The Faith "Goes Native"
How indigenous Christian movements radically transformed entire communities.
Robert Eric Frykenberg
Christianity in India
Compiled by Robert Eric Frykenberg
A Church Reborn
Catholicism emerged out of decline and disarray to become the largest Christian community in India.
Felix Wilfred
Brahman Christians
How do Christian beliefs relate to Indian philosophy and culture? These Indian thinkers came up with different answers.
Richard Fox Young and Timothy C. Tennent
Wanderer for Christ
Combining the lifestyle of an ascetic "holy man" with the devotion of a Christian visionary, Sadhu Sundar Singh became for many a symbol of authentically Indian Christianity.
Timothy Dobe
Hope for Outcastes
For India's "untouchable" Christians, relating their faith to the surrounding culture was no simple matter.
Susan Billington Harper
Bringing Peace to Paradise
British missionary John Williams pioneered the spread of Christianity in the South Pacific by employing the zeal of Polynesian converts.
Steven Gertz
J.S. Bach
For the Glory of God
Patrick Kavanaugh
Did You Know?
Interesting and unusual facts about George MacDonald
Kirsten Jeffrey Johnson
Imaginative Faith
Jennifer Trafton
Living History
First church of Norway, Da Vinci's fingerprint, and the cradle of Scottish Christianity
Compiled by Ted Olsen
A Pilgrim's Tale: Journey to Jerusalem
Steven Gertz
Elementary School: Medieval to Modern
Chris Armstrong
The Power of Books
For the Victorians, reading could be the doorway to doubt—or to faith.
Timothy Larsen
Life and Religion Are One
George MacDonald embraced all experiences, both joys and hardships, as vehicles of grace—and inspired others to do the same.
Rolland Hein
A Faith That Feels
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth translated Romantic ideals into the language of Christian experience.
Stephen Prickett with Jennifer Trafton
Victorian Visionaries
George MacDonald's friends worked to reform society, challenge the church, and inspire the imagination.
Stephen Prickett, Edwin Woodruff Tait, J. Philip Newell, and Rachel Johnson
A Born Preacher
George MacDonald's sermons passed the Victorian tests of earnestness and practicality with flying colors.
Robert H. Ellison
Love at the Heart of the Universe
For George MacDonald, belief in God and obedience to God went hand in hand.
Kerry Dearborn
Sacred Story
With the pen as his pulpit, George MacDonald used fiction to show the relevance of scriptural truth to the problems of his age.
Kirsten Jeffrey Johnson
The Wise Imagination
George MacDonald's legacy is his reminder that we are creative beings because we are made in the image of a Creator.
Trevor Hart
George MacDonald and Victorian Christianity
Jennifer Trafton
Unchained Faith
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and John Bunyan.
Collin Hansen
The Humiliation Of King Henry
Elesha Coffman
Luther: The Daily Gift of New Life
Martin E. Marty
Changes and Challenges
David Neff
Dogs, Missions, and Holy Relics
Compiled by Ted Olsen
The Dead Sea Scrolls Unrolled
Joseph L. Trafton
New wine, new wineskins
Jennifer Woodruff Tait
Taking Care of (Church) Business
More was decided at the Council of Nicaea than the nature of Christ.
Paul L. Maier
Do You Know Whom You Worship?
Did the Nicene Creed distort the pure gospel, or did it embody and protect it?
D. H. Williams
Saints and Heretics
Key players in a high-stakes game of politics and theology.
Elesha Coffman
A Marriage Made in Byzantium
When it came to determining doctrine, there were limits to an emperor's power.
Bradley Nassif
The Final Act
It took almost 60 years for the church to make Nicaea its standard of faith.
Lewis Ayres
The Council of Nicaea and its bitter aftermath
Steven Gertz and Jennifer Trafton
Holiness of heart, life, and pen
Charles Wesley and Charles H. Sheldon
Chris Armstrong
How Armenia "Invented" Christendom
Steven Gertz
Surprised by Orthodoxy
Thomas C. Oden
The Social Context: Caste and "Color"
Debating Jesus' Divinity: Christian History Timeline
The Trials and Triumphs of Nicaea
Erasmus's Revolutionary "study Bible"
Edwin Woodruff Tait
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