'Christianity: The Biography' charts the life story of Christianity, from its birth and infancy among a handful of followers of Jesus Christ, through its years of development into a global religious movement, spanning continents and cultures, transcending educational and social backgrounds, with over two billion adherents....

From the oppression and terror of the killing fields in Cambodia, this is the story of how one man's conversion led to a rebirth of faith t...

With more than 315,000 copies sold, this is the story of the church for today's readers. The fourth edition of Shelley's classic one-volume history of the church brings the story of Christianity...

Bruce Shelley's classic history of the church brings the story of global Christianity into the twenty-first century. Like a skilled screenwriter, Shelley begins each chapter with three elements: characters, setting, plot. Taking readers from the ...

1789 to 1914 was a time of momentous and often violent change religiously, socially, politically and economically in the western world.....

The Clapham Sect was a group of evangelical Christians, prominent in England from about 1790 to 1830, who campaigned for the abolition o...

John Wycliffe’s followers were called Lollards. John Wycliffe is sometimes called 'The Morning Start of the Reformation'. ......

Columba’s name dominates the narrative of early Scottish Christianity. What was established on Iona through Columba’s astonishing leadership, and through a succession of energetic and resourceful abbots, exerted a unique influence on the development of Christianity in Scotland and beyond. Bruce Ritchie’s detailed biography will introduce you to the real Columba, his life, and the faith that drove him across the sea...

Chitokoloki Mission Hospital is a remote but remarkable facility in the North-Western Province of Zambia. This book comes from a compilation of daily reports about life in a remote African mission hospital. It is written from a personal and clinical

'It is impossible to understand patterns of theological and ecclesiastical change without attention to the cultural context', writes David Bebbington in one of two contextual chapters in this book...