The Other Side of the Story

For too long, the history of Christianity has been told as the triumph of orthodox doctrine imposed through power and hierarchy. Here, historian and religion expert Diana Butler Bass reveals an alternate history that includes a deep social ethic and ...

In this highly readable volume, Robert Bruce Mullin surveys the rise and spread of Christianity throughout the world. Global in focus and covering the expanse of Christian history, the book unveils the challenges that Christianity has faced throughou...

A Way of Being the Christian Community

A concise and readable study for laypersons and clergy alike, this book is indispensable for all informed people in many different confessional communities. With the passion of one who not only observes but believes, John Leith touches on all aspects...

A Global History

In this cogent volume, historian Martin Marty gives readers of all faiths a brief yet sweeping account of Christianity and how it grew from a few believers two thousand years ago to become the world's largest religion. A remarkable testament to how C...

The Future of Jewish and Christian Life

In this book, Marc Ellis wrestles with some of the critical issues of contemporary Jewish and Christian life, in particular the issues of Jewish and Christian religiosity after Auschwitz and 1492, two events that are historical and contemporary in th...

A Paraphrase of Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love

Many people, including trained church professionals, find Julian of Norwich very difficult to read. Translations in modern English don't even seem to help. It's hard to get past her medieval Catholicims to her radically inclusive ideas--to the insigh...

Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

Inspired by Miller's Newsweek cover story "Visions of Heaven," Heaven offers a 2,000-year tour through the fascinating history and intellectual geography of this transcendent territory.

Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but most are not aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy ...

When he was 14, St. Patrick was captured from his homeland of Scotland by Irish marauders and taken as a slave to Ireland. There he lived for six years until, in his early twenties, he fled over 200 miles and escaped by ship, returning to his family....

This absorbing anthology includes famous and insightful sayings from all the major figures in Christian history, as well as from the Bible itself. Its simple alphabetical arrangement, along with its helpful index of key words, make it easy to find th...