Events from this week in Christian history include the death of Frederik Franson, King Henry VIII dissolving a popular abbey, ...

Although Diana Butler Bass doesn’t refer to Jaroslav Pelikan’s definition of tradition—“the living faith of the dead”—her People’s History is a reflection of that definition. Writing for ...

A 1.37-inch inscription could upend our understanding of the religion’s spread.

Why the work of historical stewardship isn’t just for historians. You may have heard this story before: While studying the past at Oxford, an atheist scholar converts to Christianity. But this isn’t ...

I accept religious healing as a real biological phenomenon, although one prey to pious exaggeration,” writes Amanda Porterfield, professor of religion at Florida State University. She contends that ...

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 to Rome in AD ...

The churches relationship to the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment is an entangled history. Margaret Jacobs (“The Enlightenment critique of Christianity,” in The Cambridge History of ...

How we have misunderstood Russia, the Crimean Peninsula, and supposedly secular Europe. In recent days, the Crimean peninsula has been at the heart of what some have described as the greatest ...

According to the Pew Research Center, the Christian share of the population has declined in recent years from 78.4 percent to 70.6 percent. At the same time, the number of Americans identifying as ...

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 ...