Augustine's early years reveal an intense, proud, and sensual man who yearned to know truth.

To show how greatly God has changed him, Augustine tells all. What a fifth-century critic might have said.

Athanasius's biography was not only a bestseller in its day, but a book that made people stop and think—and act.

A Christian History Timeline

Why Christians used it, why it worked, and why it died.

Augustine changed his mind—and that of the church in the West for the Next 1,500 years.

A sampling of ecstatic experiences reported in different eras of church history

The mixed motives and odd teachings of four notorious heretics

Paul's teachings on grace and freedom have shaken the church in every age.

A historian looks at the causes and lingering effects of Christian warfare.

A brilliant, profligate professor of rhetoric became the church's leading theologian for centuries to come.

Every tum in Thomas Oden's theology took him further left, until he came face to face with Augustine and Wesley.

The achievement brought new difficulties.

Augustine considered his mother, Monica, a driving force in his own salvation. In his Confessions, he documents her relentless prayers and persuasions. In Book IX, he speaks of her married life with Patricius in Thagaste, a small town in North Africa, thanking God for her powerful Christian witness. Patricius was a pagan throughout his life, but converted to Christianity shortly before his death.