First published in 1987, the "Groundwork of Christian History" has been a primer for theological college students, undergraduates, lay readers and all interested in the history and development of Christian history. Now published in a new and attractive edition with an updated bibliography, the author still manages to argue his case convincingly that history need not be boring. He takes his readers from the earliest days of the fledgling Christian Church to the end of the twentieth century and enables readers to put characters, movements and places in their wider context and make connections between them. Diarmaid McCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford.

An overview of Christian beliefs and practices across the centuries with an emphasis on tradition and the evolution of belief. +

For most of church history, hospitality was central to Christian identity. Yet our generation knows little about this rich, life-giving practice.

Concentrating on the post-Vatican II revisions of its teachings, this book tells the story of the destruction of the Roman Catholic tradition, a defining event of the twentieth century.

In this five-volume opus—now available in its entirety in paperback—Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to the twentieth. "Pelikan's The Christian Tradition [is] a series for which they must have coined words like 'magisterial'."—Martin Marty, Commonweal

The Christian tradition volume 2: the spirit of Eastern Christendom.

Historians of the Christian Tradition is an introduction to the major historians of the Christian tradition and takes a look at their assumptions and their methodology for writing history.