Uniquely authoritative and wide-ranging in its scope, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is the indispensable......more

Stephen Langton, following in the footsteps of Peter Lombard, remade not only medieval theology but also the medieval sc......more

This volume tells the story of the interaction between Christianity and law-historically and today, in the traditional h......more

Although the origins of Christianity lie in the Near East, Europe and Christianity have an exceptional relationship, sin......more

This interrogation of Origen’s legacy for the 21st Century returns to old questions built upon each other over eighteen ......more

Canon law touched nearly every aspect of medieval society, including many issues we now think of as purely secular. It r......more

How did the canon of the New Testament come into being? To what extent can we also speak of a history of the already exi......more

Were ancient Christian creeds designed as summaries of Scripture, or, conversely, was the formation of Scripture itself ......more

When the bishop Hydatius found himself held hostage in Gallaecia, a Roman province in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula......more

This volume builds upon numerous recent articles offering a new perspective on Julian....more

Biblical Exegesis and Mystical Theology in the Venerable Bede brings together seventeen essays by Arthur Holder explorin......more

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This book focuses on the value and necessity of modern sociology to Pope Francis’s church reform project known as the Sy......more

Is it possible to be religiously exclusive and socially inclusive? How do we deal with those outside of our own religiou......more

THE history of Christianity is, no doubt, full of twists and turns: the earliest examples of the Christian church consis......more

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The petitions received and the letters sent by the Papal Chancery during the Late Middle Ages attest to the recognition ......more

Theodore of Sykeon is one of the archetypal holy men of the late Roman world, a person whose intense ascetic regime earn......more

Hillsong, an Australian megachurch founded in 1983, is now a global phenomenon. It has branches in most global cities an......more

The essential objective of this study is to unpack the complicity between historians and secularization theory in the st......more

Stephen Langton (+ 1228), later Archbishop of Canterbury, was a prominent master of theology, belonging to the first gen......more

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To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era. Ja......more

First published in 1930, A History of the Modern Church is a scholarly and readable account of the church from the begin......more

The culmination of cultural and literary achievements in the final decade of Elizabeth I’s reign coincided with some of ......more

In this book readers will find stories about medieval heresies and "magic" from an unusual perspective: that of food stu......more

Staging the Sacred examines the importance of Christian, Jewish, and Samaritan liturgical poetry from Late Antiquity thr......more

"Faithful Hiring: Integrating Christian Values into Employment Practices" bridges the gap between secular and religious ......more

First published in 1932, The History of the Anglo-Catholic Revival from 1845 is a sober and judicious history of the Cat......more

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the principal legal landmarks in the evolution of the law of the ......more

Origen was one of the great thinkers of the third-century Church and the most influential of the Greek Church Fathers. H......more

Through an examination of Dutch Reformed church records and theological texts, Kyle Dieleman explores the local dynamics......more

Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe explores the Office of the Dead as a site of interaction betwee......more

A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background......more

A consideration of the allegory of Christ the Divine Physician in medical and religious writings. Discourses of physical......more

This book reconstructs an unprecedented initiative for world evangelisation of Jews in the years before, during and afte......more

Essays offering insights into the ecclesiastical, political, cultural and social history in the north of England during ......more

Sowing the Sacred traces the development of Pentecostalism among Mexican-American migrant laborers in California’s agric......more

The pastor in print is the first book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors who intentionally pursue......more

While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates t......more

Social Christianity in Scotland and Beyond explores the multifarious initiatives known variously as ’social Christianity......more

The text edited and translated in this volume recounts the first century of the history of the Augustinian priory of Lla......more

Christ and Culture: A Global Perspective introduces students to how Christianity has been adopted by some of the world’s......more

This book employs cutting-edge digital and spatial methodologies to tackle the critical issue of religious site scarcity......more

This concise history of how the Christian Church grew between 32 and 380 focuses on the anonymous Christians who formed ......more

It is impossible to understand how the medieval church functioned and, in turn, influenced the lay world within its care......more

Racialized Health, COVID-19, and Religious Responses: Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives explores black religious ......more

This book offers a detailed analysis of one of the key episodes of twentieth-century ecumenism, focusing on the efforts ......more

During the Reformation of the sixteenth century, the role of the Bible in both Protestant and Roman Catholic branches of......more

First published in 1959, the crisis, essentially spiritual in character, is examined in its three principal aspects. Fir......more

An ancient tomb is discovered deep in the foundations of St Paul’s. It is decorated with a mysterious inscription in let......more

The Roman Catholic Church has been criticized for many reasons, including its legalism. The growing aversion of church m......more

This volume offers a new, synthetic overview of the structure and ritual shape of the Roman Mass from its formative peri......more

Christian Homeland focuses on the involvement of clergy and prominent laity of the Episcopal Church in Middle Eastern af......more

Infectious disease, wounded and dying soldiers, and a shortage of supplies were the daily realities faced by the nuns wh......more

This book introduces the theory of interreligious resilience as a means to developing deeper and more effective interrel......more

Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England is the first modern full-scale examination of the theology and life of ......more

For almost three hundred years there were those in England who believed that an Italian translation of the Book of Commo......more

The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian (363-364): History and Fiction offers a new assessment of the Roman emperor’s ......more

The Reception of John Chrysostom in Early Modern Europe explores when, how, why, and by whom one of the most influential......more

The self-emptying of Christ, proclaimed in the letter to the Philippians 2:7, remains a much-debated topic in modern the......more

George Bell was one of the most significant British church leaders of the mid-20th century and in many ways he came to d......more

Exploring the subject through many different theoretical frameworks and epistemological traditions, this book confronts ......more

This monograph examines how Korean women and men came to engage with Catholic missions during Europe’s late sixteenth an......more

How might one describe early Christian exegesis? This question has given rise to a significant reassessment of patristic......more

This volume traces the history of Oneness Pentecostalism in North America. It maps the major ideas, arguments, periodiza......more

Since the 1830s, Holiness and Pentecostal movements have had a significant influence on many Christian churches, and the......more

This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological and theological Syriac Christian sources on Jerusalem ......more

In this new volume in the Writings from the Greco-Roman World series, Margaret M. Mitchell collects twenty-five of John ......more

Martina Vercesi explores the history of interpretation of one of the most disputed passages of the Book of Revelation, c......more

Few people know that Nazism included a religious component, yet Positive Christianity is directly cited in the Nazi Plat......more

Frederick G. Klawiter argues that in Ignatius’ eucharist, a wine libation symbolized the pouring out of Jesus’ blood in ......more

In this book, John A. McGuckin reviews and assesses the monumental influence that Origen of Alexandria has exercised ove......more

’What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What agreement is there between the Academy and the Church?’ Tertullian’s outburs......more

Originally published in 1926, this is the third of four volumes to discuss Christian Theology, under the guidance of the......more