Archaeologists recently uncovered a 1,500-year-old baptistery in Vence, France, revealing insights into early Christian ...

This History of Christianity is written from the standpoint of a modern evangelicalism which has either transcended controversy or knows how to obscure controversial issues by an emphasis upon ...

In the interpretation of history the point of view from which sources are selected, presented, and evaluated is all-important. Writers of textbooks are as much conditioned by their own outlook as ...

Christianity has its origins in Judaism, and initially existed alongside a number of other Jewish groups such as the Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes.

The churches relationship to the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment is an entangled history. Margaret Jacobs (“The Enlightenment critique of ...

It is a historical fact that Christianity played a central role in the colonization of the New World and the formation of the ...

Taking inspiration from social historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, Bass plays the role of advocate rather than objective historian. In contrast to triumphalistic Big-C ...

One is tempted to suspect that she came to the history of Christianity with healing-tinted glasses and something to prove. But the study, even-handed and far-reaching in scope (it ranges across ...

Combining Christian convictions and scholarly conventions, two historians create very different blends. C.S. Lewis wrote, “History is a story written by the finger of God.” But can we spot God ...

Any Christian interpretation of history that doesn’t speak to that destination seems beside the point—and risky, too. The examples Wright cites seem to demand humility.