This book focuses on the transformative journey of Methodism and tackles a profound question: How did a radical revival movement evolve into an established mainstream Church?
Philipp Melanchthon, Reformator und Lehrer Deutschlands, hat Schule und Universität, Theologie und Kirche so entscheidend geprägt, dass die Spuren seines Wirkens bis heute erkennbar sind.
David Martin is a pioneer of a political sociology of religion that integrates a combined analysis of nationalism and political religions with the history of religion.
Vor 500 Jahren erschütterte Martin Luther mit seinen 95 Thesen die Macht der katholischen Kirche und löste eine grundlegende Veränderung des christlichen Glaubens aus.
The dramatic unfolding of events after Martin Luther's revolutionary act led to the ultimate, and seemingly irreparable, fissure with Roman Catholicism: excommunication and schism.
Scholars routinely describe how Martin Luther prioritized the books of the New Testament that he believed most truly represented the gospel, the Living Word of Jesus Christ.
Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945.
In dieser Festschrift werden anlässlich seines 50-jährigen Bestehens Geschichte, Themen und Herausforderungen des Kirchlichen Entwicklungsdienstes (KED) in den evangelischen Kirchen in Deutschland gewürdigt.
Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to Poland and Prussia, and on to more than two centuries of settlement in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history.
Taking account of the significant developments in practice and thinking around the emerging church, this book will quickly establish itself as a key text for all interested in pioneer ministry, fresh expressions, church planting, church growth and ecclesiology.
In August of 1520, Martin Luther published the first of three incendiary works, Address to the German Nobility, in which he urged secular authorities to take a strong hand in "e;reforming"e; the Roman church.
As the first single-volume work to present a national picture of Baptist engagement with the fundamentalist movement in Canada in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism fills an important gap in the historiography.
A brief, narrative survey of the Baptists in North America over the last three and a half centuries, from their roots in Europe to their present manifestations in contemporary America and the world.
You Were Created to Know the Shepherd's Voice--and Speak His Words to the WorldThis is a pivotal time in the Body of Christ: As the world tumbles into darkness, credibility issues have arisen within the prophetic movement, causing believers to be disillusioned, frustrated and unsure whom to trust.
Der Bauernkrieg wird und wurde sehr unterschiedlich interpretiert: Als „Revolution des Gemeinen Mannes“, als Kampf um ökonomische Ressourcen, als religiöser Konflikt und als Vielzahl regionaler Einzelerhebungen.
