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Christianity and the American Revolution: A Gallery of Christians in the Cause
Five devout champions of liberty and revolution.
Mark Couvillon is historical interpreter and researcher at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He is co-author of "Patrick Henry Essays" (1994).
Fine-Tuning the Incarnation
A lot of mistakes were made before the church figured out how best to describe Jesus Christ.
Bruce L. Shelley
Parenting With Mother Church
In the medieval world, what you taught your children was not just your business.
Katherine French is a professor of history at S.U.N.Y. in New Paltz, New York. She is co-editor of the forthcoming "The Parish in English Life: 1400–1600" (University of Manchester).
Trickle-Down Evangelism
The earliest China missionaries started with the elite.
Ralph R. Covell
Everyday Faith in the Middle Ages: Christian History Timeline
by DANIEL BORNSTEIN [DANIEL BORNSTEIN Daniel Bornstein is associate professor of history at Texas A&M University. He is author of “The Bianchi of 1399: Popular Devotion in Late Medieval Italy” (Cornell, 1993).]
Holy Passion for Liberty
In their own words, patriots describe their sense that God had ordained their cause.
Hudson Taylor and Missions to China: Christian History Timeline
The Christian History Timeline
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The Defining Moment
Key portions of the church's most important theological statement
Christianity and the American Revolution: Christian History Timeline
Robert Calhoon is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is author of Dominion and Liberty: Ideology in the Anglo-American World (1994).
Finding the Truth
How the earliest church decided Marcion and the Gnostics, among others, were wrong.
GUSTO GONZLEZ, JR.
Scripture-Drenched Life
Medieval monasteries were Bible schools extraordinaire.
Dennis Martin teaches at Loyola University, Chicago
Unbecoming Ladies
Women played a controversial but decisive new role in China missions.
Ruth A. Tucker
Disciples of Reason
What did the founding fathers really believe?
Edwin Gaustad is professor emeritus, history and religious studies, University of California, Riverside. He is author of Sworn on the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson (Eerdmans, 1996).
Fury Unleashed
The Boxer Rebellion revealed the courage of missionaries—and the resentment they sparked.
Mark Galli
The Word Made Visible
Christians in the Middle Ages may have been largely illiterate, but they were not ignorant of the Bible.
Richard C. Leonard is president of Laudemont Ministries. He was Scripture editor for "The Complete Library of Christian Worship" (Abbott Martyn, 1993).
Why Bishops Should Be Trusted
When some early Christians said they had secret apostolic teaching, one church father said, "Not likely."
Battling Irreligion in the Ranks
Chaplains had one of the toughest jobs in the Continental Army.
Charles Royster
Heresy in the Early Church: A Gallery of Malcontents for Christ
The mixed motives and odd teachings of four notorious heretics
Stephen Miller is a free-lance writer and former editor of Illustrated Bible Life. He is a member of CHRISTIAN HISTORY's editorial advisory board.
Hudson Taylor and Missions to China: A Gallery of Gritty Pioneers
Six missionaries whose tenacity changed China
Kevin D. Miller
When a Third of the World Died
During the Black Death, the greatest catastrophe in human history, how did Christians respond?
Mark Galli is editor of CHRISTIAN HISTORY.
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