This audio tour de force is strong meat for a mature Christian audience. Luke Timothy Johnson of Emory University has rendered a service to the church with his Teaching Company audio course: “Great ...

Although Diana Butler Bass doesn’t refer to Jaroslav Pelikan’s definition of tradition—“the living faith of the dead”—her People’s History is a reflection of that definition. Writing for ...

The churches relationship to the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment is an entangled history. Margaret Jacobs (“The Enlightenment critique of Christianity,” in The Cambridge History of ...

The History of Christianity (HC) area studies past theological reflection on the faith and practice of the Church, especially in early and medieval Christianity. The HC area strives to appreciate ...

How women were instrumental to the rise of Christianity. I, Amy, am often asked why I became a historical theologian of early Christianity—what it was that gripped my imagination and pricked my desire ...

"I am the church, you are the church, we are the church together.” Every child who has ever spent a sultry summer morning at vacation Bible school has learned that song. It reflects the wisdom that ...

Pope Leo XIV closed the door at St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 6, 2026, just days into the new year. The act formally brought ...

Events that happened this week in Christian history include the death of Eddie Long, release of the Altona Confession and the ...

Did the Founding Fathers establish the United States as a Christian nation? The answer has profound consequences today. For if the founders intended this nation to be Christian, then any public policy ...

Britons risk 'losing sight' of Christian history, leading atheist historian Alice Roberts has said. The academic, 52, told BBC History Magazine that Christianity is a 'compelling and important' part ...