Church History

The history of the Christian Church.

The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam
Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
No Unhallowed Hand: 1846-1893 (Saints, #2)
Letter to the American Church
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned
Jesus through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord
Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament
Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion
Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation (Story of Christianity)
Church History in Plain Language
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day
Confessions
2,000 Years of Christ's Power, Part One: The Age of the Early Church Fathers
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
2,000 Years of Christ's Power, Part Two: The Middle Ages
The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
The Reformation: A History
The Early Church (The Pelican History of the Church, #1)
The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died
Mayflower by Nathaniel PhilbrickRoger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul by John M. BarryMaking Haste from Babylon by Nick BunkerThe Name of War by Jill LeporeKing Philip's War by Eric B. Schultz
Puritans (nonfiction)
112 books — 8 voters
Confessions by Augustine of HippoMere Christianity by C.S. LewisInstitutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols by John CalvinThe History of Christian Thought by Jonathan HillHow Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thou... by Francis A. Schaeffer
Top 100 Christian Library
165 books — 51 voters

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten BoomThe Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner TruthRadiant by Richard M. HannulaWomen and the Reformations by Merry E. Wiesner-HanksSeven Women by Eric Metaxas
Women in Church History
45 books — 4 voters
Confessions by Augustine of HippoThe Pilgrim's Progress by John BunyanMartin Luther's Basic Theological Writings by Martin LutherCommentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin LutherJonathan Edwards by Iain H. Murray
Canon of Theologians
33 books — 17 voters


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