Religious History

Studies in Ancient Persia and the Achaemenid Period

By John Curtis (editor)

A collection of essays in memory of the curator and scholar Terence Mitchell, exploring the history and archaeology of Ancient Persia.

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Subversive Meals:

An Analysis of the Lord's Supper under Roman Domination during the First Century

By R. Alan Streett

Employing scriptural exegesis and historical and theological analysis, this is an astute study of the Lord's Supper as a political act against Roman dominion.

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Theology and Society in Three Cities:

Berlin, Oxford and Chicago, 1800–1914

By Mark D. Chapman

An exercise in the history of theology, showing how social, political and cultural change in the 19th century influenced three major theological centres.

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They Who Give From Evil:

The Response of the Eastern Church to Moneylending in the Early Christian Era

By Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen

An intriguing analysis of how the early Eastern Church dealt with the theological and social implications of debt and usury.

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Timeless Truth in the Hands of History:

A Short History of System in Theology

By Gale Heide

A thoughtful historical study of the origins and subsequent role of systematics in theological discourse, from the time of Church Fathers to the modern era.

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The Titles of Jesus in Christology:

Their History in Early Christianity

By Ferdinand Hahn

A detailed introduction to early Christology, showing how Jesus's titles of majesty had long been established in the life of Judaism and the early Church.

Series: Library of Theological Translations

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To Follow the Lambe Wheresoever He Goeth:

The Ecclesial Polity of the English Calvinistic Baptists 1640–1660

By Ian Birch

A study of the development of the Calvinistic Baptist movement during the English Commonwealth, and the Christological ecclesiology that it espoused.

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The Vision of God

By Kenneth E. Kirk

Concentrating on the development of the ascetic tradition in Christianity, this book provides a justification for the centrality of worship in Christian life.

The Wheat and the Tares:

Doctrines of the Church in the Reformation, 1500–1590

By Andrew Allan Chibi

A comprehensive account of the development and diversity of ecclesiological thought during the Reformation in the 16th century.

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Yesterday's Radicals:

A Study of the Affinity between Unitarianism and Broad Church Anglicanism in the Nineteenth Century

By D.G. Wigmore-Beddoes

An analysis of the affinities between Unitarianism and the Broad Church movement within 19th-century Anglicanism.

Series: Library of Ecclesiastical History