Download or read book A Sketch of Church History written by H. Morley Rattenbury and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Church has to cover nearly 2,000 years, the whole of the inhabited world, and the story of a community which now numbers some 850 million people. Because there is so much of it, it is quite impossible for any single book to deal with it all. For the same reason, the ordinary Christian finds it difficult to picture it as a whole. This book gives a sketch of the whole story, so that the reader can see the relationship of the various parts and avoid the distortions which come from concentrating on one place and neglecting another. The story of the Church is a fascinating one, and this sketch preserves all its interest while reducing it to manageable proportions. It is inevitable that the story is told from a particular point of view and that another writer would tell it differently. But though the selection of facts is limited by the personal viewpoint of the author as well as by the length of the book, the story is told with fairness and impartiality.
Download or read book Sketches from Church History written by Sidney Maurice Houghton and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popularly-written introduction to church history takes the reader from the early Church Fathers to the days of the modern missionary movement.
Download or read book Church History written by Dr. Justo L. Gonzalez and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the chief difficulties in studying the history of Christianity is the lack of prior exposure to the subject that students often bring with them. Struggling to keep up with the large numbers of names, dates, and places presented to them, it is easy for students to lose sight of the "big picture," the broad sweep of movement and change that instructors most wish to communicate. Justo Gonzalez has written this book to help students gain just such a quick and basic grasp of the main periods and issues in the history of Christianity. Drawing upon his own extensive experience and that of others, he contends that having been introduced to the essentials of church history in a brief and accessible form, students are far better able to understand and appreciate what they encounter in more detailed lectures and reading. Gonzalez provides a comprehensive opening chapter that summarizes major issues and concerns of each of the principal eras of church history. Subsequent chapters focus on the ancient church, the Christian empire, the Middle Ages, the Reformation, the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, and the twentieth century and the end of modernity.
Download or read book Church History 101 written by Christopher M. Bellitto and published by 101. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early church - Medieval church - Reformation church -Modern church.
Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Congregational Church in Belchertown Mass written by Mark Doolittle and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of Scottish Church History written by Thomas M'Crie and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Church History Series written by Philip Schaff and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical sketch of the origin of the Secession Church written by Andrew Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Church in 100 Objects written by Mike Aquilina and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of two Catholic Press Association Awards: Design and Production (Second Place) and History (Honorable Mention). The star of Bethlehem exemplifies the birth of Jesus, the Wittenberg Door is synonymous with the Protestant Reformation, and “the pill” symbolizes the sexual revolution. It’s “stuff” that helps tell the story of Christianity. In this unique, rich, and eye-catching book, popular Catholic author and EWTN host Mike Aquilina tells the Christian story through the examination of 100 objects and places. Some, like Michelangelo's Pietà, are priceless works of art. Others, like a union membership pen, don’t hold much monetary value. But through each of them, Aquilina offers a memorable and rewarding look at the history of the Church. When Catholics tell their story, they don’t just write it in books. They preserve it in memorials, monuments, artifacts, and museums. They build grand basilicas to house tiny relics. In this stunning book, Aquilina, together with his writer-daughter Grace, show how the history of the Church didn’t take place shrouded in the mists of time. It actually happened and continues to happen through things that we can see and sometimes hold in our hand. The Christian answer to Neil MacGregor's New York Times bestseller A History of the World in 100 Objects, Aquilina’s A History of the Church in 100 Objects introduces you to: The Cave of the Nativity (the importance of history, memory, and all things tangible) Catacomb niches (the importance of Rome, bones, and relics of the faith) Ancient Map of the World (the undoing of myths about medieval science) Stained Glass (representative of Gothic cathedrals) The Holy Grail (Romance literature and the emergence of writing for the laity) Loaves and fish (a link from Jesus to the sacrament of the Eucharist) The Wittenberg Door (Martin Luther and the onset of the Reformation) Each of these and the 93 other items and places in the book tell part of the Christian story. Each is an essential piece of the story of our salvation. God makes himself known and accessible through material things, always accommodating himself to our condition. It is, after all, the condition he created for us—spiritual and material—and the form he assumed for our salvation.
Download or read book Sketches of Scottish Church History Embracing the Period from the Reformation to the Revolution written by Thomas MACCRIE (D.D., the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Church History Vol 1 3 written by J. H. Kurtz and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church History in three volumes is an account of the Christian Church written by prominent Lutheran theologian Johann Heinrich Kurtz. The work comprises ecclesiastical history from its beginnings to the end of 19th century. First part of the book covers the period from pre-Christian era and the founding of the Church by Christ and his Apostles to the 10th century. Second part spans from Christian missionary enterprises and the Crusades to Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. The final part covers the years from 17th to 19th century and what Christian church went through in that period.
Download or read book History of Christianity written by Paul Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books). In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known ‘Jesus Sect’, A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.
Download or read book An Historical Sketch of the Protestant Church of France written by John Gordon Lorimer and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of Church History written by Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christendom s divisions a sketch of the divisions of the Christian family in East and West written by Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Church History Series A history of the Roman Catholic Church by Thomas O Gorman written by Philip Schaff and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An historical sketch of the protestant Church of France with parallel notices of the Church of Scotland written by John Gordon Lorimer and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
