Church History

A Short History of Christianity, By Geoffrey Blainey. From the pen of a great historian, here is the most accessible and affordable one-volume hist...

A Social History of the Early Church, by Simon Jones. In the first decades after Christ a small movement from the Middle East rapidly grew to becom...

Angels. A Visible and Invisible History, By Peter Stanford. ‘In a 2016 poll, one in 10 Britons claimed to have experienced the presence of an angel...

Anglican Papalism. An Illustrated History 1900-1960, by Michael Yelton. In 1898 the Church of England was shaken to its roots by the then Pope's de...

Bearing False Witness. Debunking Centuries Of Anti-Catholic History, by Rodney Stark. A must-read for followers of Church history, and anyone looki...

Born Bad. Original Sin And The Making Of The Western Mind, by James Boyce. According to the doctrine of original sin, all humans are born bad and o...

Byzantine Christianity, A Very Brief History By Averil Cameron. ‘I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of Byzantium.’ W. B. Yeats. From ...

Catholic Architecture. An exploration of what the design of a Catholic Church means, and why it matters. The church building has always been intend...

Christian Music. A global history (revised and expanded) by Tim Dowley. Christian Music: A Global History was originally published by Lion Hudson i...

Christianity at the Crossroads. How The Second Century Shaped The Future Of The Church, by Michael J Kruger. It is the second century. Everyone who...

Deaconesses An Historical Study. Since the 17th century the history of deaconesses in the Church has been the subject of numerous monographs. What ...

Early Christianity. Theology Shaped by Saints. Early Christianity explores how in the first centuries the followers of Jesus Christ lived their fai...

Everything Hidden Shall Be Revealed. Ridding the Church of Abuses of Sex and Power. The most serious sex abuse crisis in Catholic history demands t...

Five Events that Made Christianity. Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost, by John Pritchard. ‘Jesus was a pest to the Romans and...

For Peace and For Good. A History of the Community of St. Francis, by Helen Stanton. For Peace and For Good is the history of the influential Angli...

From the Depths of Our Hearts. Priesthood, Celibacy and the Crisis of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church faces a major crisis and the turmoil...

Galileo: Science and Faith. Is the Church against Science and Reason? The Galileo controversy has become a paragon of faith’s supposed hostility to...

Great Orders of the Catholic Church. Over the centuries the Holy Spirit has inspired a multitude of religious orders. Their origins, distinctive ch...

Heresy Through the ages. Fr Bertram runs through the five main recurring heresies and their various manifestations from Arianism to Modernism, and ...

In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians. A Story Of Suppression, Secrecy And Survival, by John Dougill. In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians is a ...

Invisible Worlds. Death, Religion And The Supernatural In England, 1500-1700, by Peter Marshall. How did traditional beliefs about the supernatural...

Look to the Rock. The Catholic League and the Anglican Papalist Quest for Reunion, by Michael Walsh. This history celebrates the Catholic League, a...

Love for the Papacy and Filial Resistance to the Pope in the History of the Church. Foreword by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke. In this book, Roberto d...

Mary Magdalene. The Woman Whom Jesus Loved, by Robin Griffith-Jones. The figure of Mary Magdalen has fascinated and perplexed people for centuries....