Journalist Ira Stoll illuminates the personality, Christian conviction, and contributions of a founder who played the pivotal role in our declaration of independence from Britain.
In 2007, theologians and historians gathered at Wheaton College to ask how evangelicals can learn from the witness of the early church. Now a new book offers their conclusions to a wider audience.
How did the church come to understand Christ as fully God and fully man? Stephen Need is an excellent tour guide to the early church councils that debated the core issues of Christian faith.
A new edition of some of Donne's prose work is a useful companion to a volume of his poetry, while a "mildly modernized" version of his sonnets and sermons sets my teeth on edge.
131 Christians Everyone Should Know is like a super-concentrated, portable version of Christian History—which isn't surprising, considering that we wrote it.
Two very different books, History of the Pentecostal Revival in Chile and The Awakening: One Man's Battle with Darkness, show God's power at work in very different ways.
April 19, 526: Justinian I is crowned Roman Emperor in Constantinople's magnificent cathedral, the Santa Sophia. Attempting to restore political and religious unity in the eastern and western empires, he ruthlessly attacked pagans and heretics and created the Code of Justinian, a massive restructuring of law (including much regarding the relationship of church and state) that would be the basis of legislation for nearly a millennium.
April 19, 1054: Pope Leo IX dies. Because Leo refused the title ...
