⛪ Church History

The sweeping, often surprising story of Christianity through the centuries — its councils, schisms, saints, and scandals that shaped the faith billions know today.

Dominion

by Tom Holland • 2019

Secularism, human rights, even atheism: a historian shows why these are all products of the cross.

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12k+

🏛️ Western Civilization 🎭 Cultural History 💡 Intellectual History 🏺 Ancient World 🏰 Medieval History

Dominion

Secularism, human rights, even atheism: a historian shows why these are all products of the cross.

by Tom Holland 2019

4.26

12k+ ratings

🏛️ Western Civilization 🎭 Cultural History 💡 Intellectual History 🏺 Ancient World 🏰 Medieval History

Church History in Plain Language

by Bruce L. Shelley • 1982

The Global South is remaking Christianity. Two thousand years of history explain how we got here.

4.12

6k+

🌍 Global Christianity 🤝 Christian Unity 🏛️ Denominational History 🔬 Religion And Science 🏙️ Secularization

Church History in Plain Language

The Global South is remaking Christianity. Two thousand years of history explain how we got here.

by Bruce L. Shelley 1982

4.12

6k+ ratings

🌍 Global Christianity 🤝 Christian Unity 🏛️ Denominational History 🔬 Religion And Science 🏙️ Secularization

The Orthodox Church

by Timothy Ware • 1963

Christianity's forgotten half: no Pope, no Reformation, and questions the West never asked.

4.28

4k+

☦️ Eastern Orthodoxy 📖 Christian Doctrine 🙏 Liturgical Worship 🔥 Mystical Theology 🏺 Church Fathers

The Orthodox Church

Christianity's forgotten half: no Pope, no Reformation, and questions the West never asked.

by Timothy Ware 1963

4.28

4k+ ratings

☦️ Eastern Orthodoxy 📖 Christian Doctrine 🙏 Liturgical Worship 🔥 Mystical Theology 🏺 Church Fathers

50 People Every Christian Should Know

by Warren W. Wiersbe • 2009

Fifty spiritual giants, fifty lessons: the preaching and leadership wisdom no degree confers.

4.05

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🧱 Spiritual Biography 🕊️ Pastoral Ministry 📋 Ministry Principles 🗣️ Preaching Wisdom 🙏 Spiritual Disciplines

50 People Every Christian Should Know

Fifty spiritual giants, fifty lessons: the preaching and leadership wisdom no degree confers.

by Warren W. Wiersbe 2009

4.05

1k+ ratings

🧱 Spiritual Biography 🕊️ Pastoral Ministry 📋 Ministry Principles 🗣️ Preaching Wisdom 🙏 Spiritual Disciplines

Hitler's Cross

by Erwin W. Lutzer • 1995

Hitler seduced the German church. The cross flew beside the swastika; only a handful refused.

4.20

874

💀 Nazi Germany ⚠️ Christian Nationalism 🛡️ Christian Resistance ✝️ Sacrificial Faith 🔶 Antisemitism

Hitler's Cross

Hitler seduced the German church. The cross flew beside the swastika; only a handful refused.

by Erwin W. Lutzer 1995

4.20

874 ratings

💀 Nazi Germany ⚠️ Christian Nationalism 🛡️ Christian Resistance ✝️ Sacrificial Faith 🔶 Antisemitism

The Incomparable Christ

by John R.W. Stott • 2001

The church painted Jesus as monk or liberator, but the original witness outshines them all.

4.22

279

✝️ Christology 📖 New Testament Theology 🕊️ Life Of Jesus 🩸 Atonement Theology ⚰️ Resurrection

The Incomparable Christ

The church painted Jesus as monk or liberator, but the original witness outshines them all.

by John R.W. Stott 2001

4.22

279 ratings

✝️ Christology 📖 New Testament Theology 🕊️ Life Of Jesus 🩸 Atonement Theology ⚰️ Resurrection

Don't Know Much About the Bible

by Kenneth C. Davis • 1998

Your Sunday school skipped the messy parts: the Bible as a human, centuries-long collaboration.

3.87

1k+

🏛️ Biblical Scholarship 📖 Religious Literacy 🏺 Ancient Near East 🌍 Comparative Religion 🧨 Myth Busting

Don't Know Much About the Bible

Your Sunday school skipped the messy parts: the Bible as a human, centuries-long collaboration.

by Kenneth C. Davis 1998

3.87

1k+ ratings

🏛️ Biblical Scholarship 📖 Religious Literacy 🏺 Ancient Near East 🌍 Comparative Religion 🧨 Myth Busting

A Multitude of All Peoples

by Vince L. Bantu • 2020

The first millennium of Christianity was mostly African and Asian. A history deliberately erased.

4.28

139

🌍 Global Christianity 🕯️ Early Christianity 🏺 African Christianity 🏯 Asian Christianity ☦️ Eastern Christianity

A Multitude of All Peoples

The first millennium of Christianity was mostly African and Asian. A history deliberately erased.

by Vince L. Bantu 2020

4.28

139 ratings

🌍 Global Christianity 🕯️ Early Christianity 🏺 African Christianity 🏯 Asian Christianity ☦️ Eastern Christianity

What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? The Positive Impact of Christianity in History

by D. James Kennedy • 1994

What would a world without Christianity look like? The missing parts are the best ones.

4.01

449

🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🏛️ Western Civilization 🎨 Faith And Culture 📜 Calvinism ❤️ Christian Ethics

What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? The Positive Impact of Christianity in History

What would a world without Christianity look like? The missing parts are the best ones.

by D. James Kennedy 1994

4.01

449 ratings

🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🏛️ Western Civilization 🎨 Faith And Culture 📜 Calvinism ❤️ Christian Ethics

The History of the Church

by Eusebius

Christianity's first historian was a bishop who watched churches burn, then saw an emperor bow.

4.01

5k+

⛪ Early Christianity 🏛️ Roman Empire 🩸 Christian Martyrs ⚖️ Heresy And Orthodoxy 📜 Biblical Canon

The History of the Church

Christianity's first historian was a bishop who watched churches burn, then saw an emperor bow.

by Eusebius

4.01

5k+ ratings

⛪ Early Christianity 🏛️ Roman Empire 🩸 Christian Martyrs ⚖️ Heresy And Orthodoxy 📜 Biblical Canon

The Great Emergence

by Phyllis Tickle • 2008

Every half-millennium, Christianity implodes, then remakes itself. We are inside the fourth one.

3.96

3k+

📊 Sociology Of Religion 🌊 Postmodern Christianity 🎭 Religion And Culture 📖 Biblical Authority 🔥 Christian Renewal

The Great Emergence

Every half-millennium, Christianity implodes, then remakes itself. We are inside the fourth one.

by Phyllis Tickle 2008

3.96

3k+ ratings

📊 Sociology Of Religion 🌊 Postmodern Christianity 🎭 Religion And Culture 📖 Biblical Authority 🔥 Christian Renewal

Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals

by Gavin Ortlund • 2019

A thousand years of theology vanished from evangelicalism. Recovering it changes everything.

4.26

406

🏛️ Historical Theology 📜 Church Fathers ✝️ Atonement Theology 🔺 Trinitarian Theology 🏰 Medieval Theology

Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals

A thousand years of theology vanished from evangelicalism. Recovering it changes everything.

by Gavin Ortlund 2019

4.26

406 ratings

🏛️ Historical Theology 📜 Church Fathers ✝️ Atonement Theology 🔺 Trinitarian Theology 🏰 Medieval Theology

Pontifex Maximus

by Christopher Lascelles • 2017

The papacy's claim to divine authority is shaky; its real story is power, corruption, and scandal.

3.93

140

🏛️ Papacy 👑 Temporal Power ⚔️ Crusades 📜 Reformation 🐍 Religious Corruption

Pontifex Maximus

The papacy's claim to divine authority is shaky; its real story is power, corruption, and scandal.

by Christopher Lascelles 2017

3.93

140 ratings

🏛️ Papacy 👑 Temporal Power ⚔️ Crusades 📜 Reformation 🐍 Religious Corruption

The Rhine Flows into the Tiber

by Ralph M. Wiltgen • 1966

How an alliance of Rhineland bishops steered Vatican II and reshaped modern Catholicism.

4.05

112

⛪ Vatican Ii 🏛️ Vatican Politics 🎵 Liturgical Reform 🔄 Church Reform ☦️ Ecumenism

The Rhine Flows into the Tiber

How an alliance of Rhineland bishops steered Vatican II and reshaped modern Catholicism.

by Ralph M. Wiltgen 1966

4.05

112 ratings

⛪ Vatican Ii 🏛️ Vatican Politics 🎵 Liturgical Reform 🔄 Church Reform ☦️ Ecumenism

Theologians You Should Know

by Michael Reeves • 2016

Eleven theologians who built Christian belief, and the ideas that cure a shallow faith.

4.38

179

🏛️ Historical Theology 📖 Introductory Theology ✝️ Evangelical Theology 🙏 Devotional Theology 🏺 Christian Tradition

Theologians You Should Know

Eleven theologians who built Christian belief, and the ideas that cure a shallow faith.

by Michael Reeves 2016

4.38

179 ratings

🏛️ Historical Theology 📖 Introductory Theology ✝️ Evangelical Theology 🙏 Devotional Theology 🏺 Christian Tradition

Enthusiasm

by Ronald Knox • 1950

Montanists to Methodist revivals, a recurring temperament claims direct guidance, then unravels.

4.45

📚 Historical Theology 🔥 Religious Extremism 🕯️ Mystical Heresies ✝️ Theology Of Grace 🏴 Sectarian Movements

Enthusiasm

Montanists to Methodist revivals, a recurring temperament claims direct guidance, then unravels.

by Ronald Knox 1950

4.45

51 ratings

📚 Historical Theology 🔥 Religious Extremism 🕯️ Mystical Heresies ✝️ Theology Of Grace 🏴 Sectarian Movements

What Do Christians Believe?

by Malcolm Guite • 2006

Why love, not doctrine, is the lens that makes sense of two thousand years of Christianity.

3.95

📖 Introductory Theology ✝️ Christian Doctrine ⚖️ Christian Ethics 🙏 Prayer And Sacrament 🕊️ Interfaith Dialogue

What Do Christians Believe?

Why love, not doctrine, is the lens that makes sense of two thousand years of Christianity.

by Malcolm Guite 2006

3.95

42 ratings

📖 Introductory Theology ✝️ Christian Doctrine ⚖️ Christian Ethics 🙏 Prayer And Sacrament 🕊️ Interfaith Dialogue

Know the Creeds and Councils

by Justin S. Holcomb • 2014

Two thousand years of Christian arguments, settled by councils most believers cannot name.

4.15

585

📜 Historical Theology 🏛️ Early Church 📖 Reformation Theology 🔺 Trinitarian Theology ✝️ Christology

Know the Creeds and Councils

Two thousand years of Christian arguments, settled by councils most believers cannot name.

by Justin S. Holcomb 2014

4.15

585 ratings

📜 Historical Theology 🏛️ Early Church 📖 Reformation Theology 🔺 Trinitarian Theology ✝️ Christology

Welcome to the Orthodox Church

by Frederica Mathewes-Green • 2013

Sin is a disease, icons are friends, and beauty heals the soul.

4.46

557

☦️ Eastern Christianity 📖 Orthodox Theology 🕯️ Liturgical Worship 🎨 Iconography 🕊️ Christian Mysticism

Welcome to the Orthodox Church

Sin is a disease, icons are friends, and beauty heals the soul.

by Frederica Mathewes-Green 2013

4.46

557 ratings

☦️ Eastern Christianity 📖 Orthodox Theology 🕯️ Liturgical Worship 🎨 Iconography 🕊️ Christian Mysticism

Tried by Fire

by William J. Bennett • 2016

A persecuted sect, a battlefield vision, and the faith that conquered an empire.

4.05

489

✝️ Early Christianity 🏛️ Late Antiquity 🔥 Martyrdom 📜 Councils And Creeds 🙏 Monasticism

Tried by Fire

A persecuted sect, a battlefield vision, and the faith that conquered an empire.

by William J. Bennett 2016

4.05

489 ratings

✝️ Early Christianity 🏛️ Late Antiquity 🔥 Martyrdom 📜 Councils And Creeds 🙏 Monasticism

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