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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How women were instrumental to the rise of Christianity. I, Amy, am often asked why I became a historical theologian of early Christianity—what it was that gripped my imagination and pricked my desire ...

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 am the church, you are the church, we are the church together.” Every child who has ever spent a sultry summer morning at vacation Bible school has learned that song. It reflects the wisdom that ...

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 ...

Christianity made it to China a lot earlier than people once believed, said history professor Daniel Bays. Until now, the most authoritative book on the subject, the one still used in classrooms, was ...