Publisher’s Description This widely acclaimed introduction to modern Christian thought, formerly published by Prentice Hall, provides full, scholarly accounts of the major movements and thinkers, theologians and philosophers in the Christian tradition since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, together with solid historical…
Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics
Publisher’s Description A major study reevaluating the primary sources of the post-Reformation period to determine how consistent they are with the thinking of the Reformers on theological prolegomena. Author Information: Richard A. Muller (PhD, Duke University) is P. J. Zondervan…
America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
Publisher’s Description Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended…
The Reformation: A History
Publisher’s Description At a time when men and women were prepared to kill—and be killed—for their faith, the Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s award-winning new history brilliantly re-creates…
The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600)
Publisher’s Description In this, the first of his five-volume opus, Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to the seventh.
Early Christian Doctrines
Publisher’s Description This revised edition of the standard history of the first great period in Christian thought has been thoroughly updated in the light of the latest historical findings. Dr. Kelly organizes an ocean of material by outlining the development…
Seeking a Better Country: 300 Years of American Presbyterianism
Publisher’s Description Seeking a Better Country is a readable and lively survey of American Presbyterianism since its founding in 1706. Its aim is not to celebrate but to understand how Presbyterians formed one of the largest and most influential denominations…
The European Reformations
Publisher’s Description Combining seamless synthesis of original material with updated scholarship, The European Reformations 2nd edition, provides the most comprehensive and engaging textbook available on the origins and impacts of Europe’s Reformations—and the consequences that continue to resonate today. A…
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought
Publisher’s Description Written by a preeminent religious historian, this book provides an introduction to early Christian thought. Focusing on major figures such as St. Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well known thinkers, Robert…
The Early Church
Publisher’s Description This first volume of the penguin history of the church looks at the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries AD and at the explosive force of its expansion throughout the Roman world. Drawing on recent…
