Combining Christian convictions and scholarly conventions, two historians create very different blends. C.S. Lewis wrote, “History is a story written by the finger of God.” But can we spot God ...

One is tempted to suspect that she came to the history of Christianity with healing-tinted glasses and something to prove. But the study, even-handed and far-reaching in scope (it ranges across ...

A 1,400-year-old stone cross has been found at a site that is challenging perceptions of where Christianity spread to during the 7th and 8th centuries ...

The Origin of Sin. The origin of human sin, according to the Bible, is very simply ascribed to the willful self-corruption of the creature under temptation.

Archaeologists recently uncovered a 1,500-year-old baptistery in Vence, France, revealing insights into early Christian ...

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 ...

This History of Christianity is written from the standpoint of a modern evangelicalism which has either transcended controversy or knows how to obscure controversial issues by an emphasis upon ...

Any Christian interpretation of history that doesn’t speak to that destination seems beside the point—and risky, too. The examples Wright cites seem to demand humility.

Taking inspiration from social historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, Bass plays the role of advocate rather than objective historian. In contrast to triumphalistic Big-C ...

An expression of the sadness and hope of one black man, a pastor and Cullman native.

Steven Green argues convincingly in his new book, Inventing a Christian America, that the "origin myth" of a Christian founding did not begin with the founding generation, but decades later, and ...

For readers who’d like to know more about Malta’s interesting Christian history, here’s a summary of the main events, courtesy of the Archdiocese of Malta. At Paul’s Shipwreck on his way ...