Church history - Primitive and early church
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The Age of Paradise: Christendom from Pentecost to the First Millennium
$22.95 Add to cart- Series: Paradise and Utopia: The Rise and Fall of What the West Once Was #1
- Author: Strickland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: April 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1944967567
- Language: English
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Cult of the Dead: A Brief History of Christianity
$37.43 Read moreA cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs.
Though it promises eternal life, Christianity was forged in death. Christianity is built upon the legacies of the apostles and martyr- Author: Smith, Kyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 520345169
- Language: English
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Apostolic Tradition: A New Commentary
$24.95 Read moreThe publication in 2011 of a new Ethiopic text of the Apostolic Tradition changed much of what scholars had previously concluded about the text and character of this ancient church order. In addition … [more below]
- Author: Bradshaw, Paul F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0814668461
- Language: English
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Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church through the Middle Ages
$29.00 Add to cartIn brief portraits, Pope Benedict XVI offers engaging, perceptive, and edifying sketches of some of the great thinkers and writers of Christianity. Pope Benedict discusses notable theologians from Eas
- Author: Benedict XVI
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0800698517
- Language: English
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Scripture, the Genesis of Doctrine: Doctrine and Scripture in Early Christianity, Vol 1.
$40.99 Read moreHow did we get from Scripture to creed?
Historical criticism has revealed a gap between Scripture and the mainstream doctrines that define Christianity today. Not the least of these are the Trinity- Author: Young, Frances M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: October 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0802882986
- Language: English
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The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity
$21.99 Add to cartBeginning with Walter Bauer in 1934, the denial of clear orthodoxy in early Christianity has shaped and largely defined modern New Testament criticism, recently given new life through the work of spok
- Author: K?stenberger, Andreas J
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 30 2010
- ISBN10: 1433501430
- Language: English
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Amon’s Secret: A Family Story of the First Christians
$19.99 Read moreBest-selling author of family-tailored Lent and Advent books is back with a new adventure
Adding to his widely popular Advent and Lent series, well-known author Arnold Ytreeide revisits the Jerusalem- Author: Ytreeide, Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0825447704
- Language: English
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The World of the First Christians: A Curious Kid’s Guide to the Early Church
$19.99 Add to cartThe life and teachings of Jesus changed the world forever–but what happened after the events of the Gospels? How did Christianity grow from a small group of followers to one of the largest religious
- Series: Curious Kids’ Guides
- Author: Olson, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1506460496
- Language: English
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The Mission of the Body of Christ
$22.99 Add to cart“God had not just sent his Messiah into the world. He had sent him to them. They were known. In all their guilt–intended and unintended–they were known and invited to find refuge in the grace of God
- Series: Retelling the Story
- Author: Ramsey, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0830844007
- Language: English
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Constantine the Great: And the Christian Revolution
$23.95 Add to cartRevered historian Baker, the author of books on Augustus, Tiberius, and Hannibal, tells the story of Constantine, the first Christian ruler of the Roman empire.
- Author: Baker, G. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: August 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0815411588
- Language: English
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Worship in the Early Church
$35.00 Add to cartWhile many histories of Christian worship exist, this project undertakes a task both more focused and more urgent. Rather than survey the whole history of the Christian church, it focuses on the forma
- Author: González, Justo L
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0664267823
- Language: English
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The Early Christians: From the Beginnings to Constantine
$44.99 Add to cartThe early Christians were by no means a homogeneous group, let alone a church. This is the fascinating story of the beliefs, practices and experience of individual Christians of antiquity, their relat… [more below]
- Series: Classical Scholarship in Translation
- Author: Leppin, Hartmut
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1316517233
- Language: English
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Jesus and First-Century Christianity in Jerusalem
$19.95 Add to cartThis book, beautifully illustrated with maps and photos, traces the little-known story of the original Jewish Christian community and presents intriguing evidence connecting Jesus and his family with … [more below]
- Author: McNamer, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0809145235
- Language: English
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The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History
$19.95 Add to cartA landmark reinterpretation of why Christianity became the dominant faith of the West
The idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor is a widely accepted notion. Yet it is- Author: Stark, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0691248044
- Language: English
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The History of the Church: A New Translation
$22.43 Add to cartEusebius’s groundbreaking History of the Church, remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries of Christianity and stands among the classics of Western literatu… [more below]
- Series: World Literature in Translation
- Author: Eusebius of Caesarea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 520291107
- Language: English
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A Week in the Life of Ephesus
$19.99 Add to cartHow should Christians live in an age of empire?
As the city of Ephesus prepares for a religious festival in honor of the emperor Domitian, a Christian landowner feels increasing pressure from the city’
- Series: Week in the Life
- Author: deSilva, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0830824855
- Language: English
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The Pilgrimage of Egeria: A New Translation of the Itinerarium Egeriae with Introduction and Commentary
$29.95 Add to cartThis new version of the late fourth-century diary of journeys in and around the Holy Land known as the Itinerarium Egeriae provides a more literal translation of the Latin text than earlier English r
- Author: McGowan, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 0814684211
- Language: English
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The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
$20.00 Add to cartEusebius’s 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, bro… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Eusebius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 03 1990
- ISBN10: 0140445358
- Language: English
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Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
$23.99 Add to cartThe early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been create… [more below]
- Author: Ehrman, Bart D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 15 2005
- ISBN10: 0195182499
- Language: English
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Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World
$26.99 Read moreIn the middle of the third century CE, one North African bishop wrote a treatise for the women of his church, exhorting them to resist such culturally normalized yet immodest behaviors in their cosmop
- Author: Williams, Nadya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 310147816
- Language: English
