Events from this week in Christian history include the death of William Arthur, the release of volume 1 of “The Fundamentals, ...
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1929. 8vo. 750 pp. Illus. $6.50. IT is a grateful task to welcome this comprehensive symposium on the history of Christianity for which the collaboration of many of the ...
This audio tour de force is strong meat for a mature Christian audience. Luke Timothy Johnson of Emory University has rendered a service to the church with his Teaching Company audio course: “Great ...
For centuries, Christians have gone on pilgrimage to seek God, to remember the faith of those who have gone before them, and to encounter the Lord in a deeper way.
British archaeologists are seeking to authenticate what could be a landmark discovery in the documentation of early Christianity: a trove of 70 lead codices that appear to date from the 1st century CE ...
Claremore Christian School presented a living history exhibit Feb. 27 about 10 Africans who made significant contributions to ...
The churches relationship to the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment is an entangled history. Margaret Jacobs (“The Enlightenment critique of Christianity,” in The Cambridge History of ...
Although Diana Butler Bass doesn’t refer to Jaroslav Pelikan’s definition of tradition—“the living faith of the dead”—her People’s History is a reflection of that definition. Writing for ...
The History of Christianity (HC) area studies past theological reflection on the faith and practice of the Church, especially in early and medieval Christianity. The HC area strives to appreciate ...
I accept religious healing as a real biological phenomenon, although one prey to pious exaggeration,” writes Amanda Porterfield, professor of religion at Florida State University. She contends that ...