Early Modern Religion

Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the 200-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in new and profound ways, and he demonstrates convincingly that this crucial turning point in history not only affected people long gone but continues to shape our world and define who we are today.

What if the key to a fierce, world-changing faith was hidden in an enemy’s insult? When the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate contemptuously labeled early Christians the “impious Galileans,” his own writings revealed their true power: a radical, indiscriminate charity that astonished him and that his own pagan empire could not replicate. This book is a summons to your soul—an invitation to journey back to those counter-cultural and irresistibly compassionate roots, fueled by the foundational truth that we love because God first loved us.

From peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of the 16th century. Martin Luther's challenge to church authority forced Christians to examine their beliefs in ways that shook the foundations of their religion. The subsequent divisions, fed by dynastic rivalries and military changes, fundamentally altered the relations between ruler and ruled. Geographical and scientific discoveries challenged the unity of Christendom as a belief community.

In Rome in A.D. 165, two men named Carpus and Papylus stood before the proconsul of Pergamum, charged with the crime of being Christians. Not even torture could make them deny Christ, so they were burned alive. Is my faithfulness as strong?

Faith and Order: Understanding the Enduring Influence of John Calvin on Religion, Society, and Thought is an in-depth exploration of one of history’s most transformative thinkers and the far-reaching impact of his ideas. John Calvin was not only a theologian but also a system builder, educator, and social reformer whose vision shaped the moral, intellectual, and political foundations of the modern world. From his early life in France and his rise to prominence in Geneva to the creation of his monumental Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin sought to unite faith, reason, and ...

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In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides an accessible and comprehensive examination of witch prosecutions in the Puritan colonies that discusses how their English inhabitants understood the crime of witchcraft, why some people ran a greater risk of being accused of occult misdeeds, and how gender intersected with witch-hunting.

Confessions is the profound autobiographical masterpiece of Aurelius Augustine of Hippo, penned in Latin between AD 397 and 400. This seminal work, heralded as the first autobiography in Western literature, intimately explores Augustine's journey from a life marked by sin and spiritual restlessness to his transformative embrace of Christ. In this modernized edition, we have preserved the essence of Augustine's original narrative while adapting the language for contemporary readers. Based on the public domain translation by Albert C. Outler, our approach has been meticulously faithful to the...

In vivid detail, author Jay Lampart lays out several reasons why the Internet pornography crisis Christian males are facing today is so unique and dire. He then presents five very simple but highly effective weapons that are available to us as Christians to combat it.