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  • Christ and the Council

    Conflict, Politics, Theology, and the Outrageous, Extraordinary Story of the Church’s First Creed

    by Ben Wyatt ...
    How do Christians decide what is true? And what do centuries of church tradition, the first Christian emperor, a wannabe cabbage farmer, hordes of arguing clergy, and a seventeen-century-old creed have to do with that process? Today's church conflicts are nothing new. Christians have been fighting since the church was founded. Few controversies were as consequential as that surrounding the Council ... Read more

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  • Jesus Wars

    How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years

    by John Philip Jenkins ...
    A history of the Dark Ages "explain[s] very clearly why people in the early Christian era were so passionately concerned with issues of high theology.( The Economist ).Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth century. Philip Jenkins argues that were it not for these controversies, the papacy ... Read more

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  • The Triumph of Christianity

    How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

    by Bart D. Ehrman ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Miquoting Jesus comes the “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot) story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four ... Read more

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  • When Jesus Became God

    The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome

    by Richard E. Rubenstein ...
    "[A] panoramic view of early Christianity as it developed against the backdrop of the Roman Empire of the fourth century" ( Publishers Weekly).The story of Jesus is well known, as is the story of Christian persecutions during the Roman Empire. The history of fervent debate, civil strife, and bloody riots within the Christian community as it was coming into being, however, is a side of ancient ... Read more

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  • The Story of Christianity: Volume 1

    The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation

    by Justo L. Gonzalez ...
    Series Book 1 - The Story of Christianity
    From its very beginning, the Christian message was grafted onto human history.But how did a persecuted sect from a forgotten corner of the Roman Empire become one of the most powerful forces in the world? In this masterful first volume of The Story of Christianity, acclaimed historian Justo L. González tells the epic story of the faith's first fifteen hundred years. This engaging work of Christian ... Read more

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  • A.D. 381

    Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State

    by Charles Freeman ...
    "A chronicle of one significant year in Christian history." — Kirkus ReviewsIn A.D. 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a lively and wide-ranging debate about the nature of God; all other ... Read more

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  • The Myth of Persecution

    How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom

    by Candida Moss ...
    An expert on early Christianity reveals how the early church invented stories of Christian martyrs—and how this persecution myth persists today.According to church tradition and popular belief, early Christians were systematically persecuted by a brutal Roman Empire intent on their destruction. As the story goes, vast numbers of believers were thrown to the lions, tortured, or burned alive because ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book II

    The Triumph of Christianity

    by T.M. Lindsay, H.M. Gwatkin, C.H. Turner ...
    THE old or official religions of Greece and of Rome had lost most of their power long before Constantine first declared that Christianity was henceforth to be recognized as a religio licita and then proceeded to bestow the Imperial favor on the faith which his predecessors had persecuted. Hellenism had destroyed their influence over the cultivated classes, and other religions, coming from the East ... Read more

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  • Augustine

    A New Biography

    by James J. O'Donnell ...
    Saint Augustine -- the celebrated theologian who served as Bishop of Hippo from 396 C.E. until his death in 430 C.E. -- is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in the Western world. His autobiography, Confessions, remains among the most important religious writings in the Christian tradition. In this eye-opening and eminently readable biography, renowned historical scholar James ... Read more

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  • Augustine the African

    by Catherine Conybeare ...
    **A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEARLonglisted for the 2026 Cundill History PrizeAn extraordinary work of revisionist history that centers Africa in the life of one of our greatest philosophers: "Excellent, short, and highly readable.... Traces a grittier story of a life lived almost entirely in a small area of what is now eastern Algeria, where Augustine’s local origins and experience profoundly ... Read more

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  • Catholic and Cornered: Answers to Common Questions About Your Faith

    by Kenneth L. Parker ...
    People outside the Catholic faith are often baffled, skeptical, and sometimes hurt when a loved one converts to the faith. They see the convert as a newly minted Church spokesperson, a resource they can pepper with questions about the Church. Lifelong Catholics can also find themselves in this role. Theology professor and Catholic convert Kenneth L. Parker uses a brief question-and-answer format ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Church History, Volume One: From Christ to the Pre-Reformation

    The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context

    by Everett Ferguson ...
    Church History, Volume One offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and grew from its development in the days of Jesus to the years leading up to the Reformation.Looking closely at the integral link between the history of the world and that of the church, Church History paints a portrait of God's people within its setting of times, cultures, and events that both ... Read more

    $37.99 USD