religion / christianity / history
Showing results 1-24 of 102
Filter Results OPEN +
Under the Olive Tree
Palestinian Christian Theology from the 1980s to the Present
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481323703
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-10-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
247 Pages
"If Jesus were to be born today, he would be born under the rubble of Gaza."This powerful statement of Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac captures the physical and spiritual landscape of Palestinian Christians....
A Handbook to Second-Century Christianity
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481314152
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-10-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-10-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
744 Pages
The second century of the Common Era was a time of significant transition, innovation, and upheaval for the Greco-Roman world. In the midst of great societal changes the relatively new religious movement...
Medieval Spirituality
An Introduction
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481320382
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-09-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-09-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
200 Pages
Exploring medieval spirituality invites us to delve into a remote world. This introduction is a guide to understanding how medieval believers experienced divine presence in manifold ways. God became...
The Materiality of Early Christ Devotion
Artistic Innovation at Four Archaeological Sites
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481321631
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-09-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-08-30
Imprint: Baylor University Press
349 Pages
In the fourth and fifth centuries CE, Christian artistry began to flourish, as elite patrons sponsored decorative initiatives for basilica churches throughout the Mediterranean basin. But what about...
History of Early Christianity
Religion, Culture, Identity
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481313957
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-08-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-08-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
320 Pages
The period of early Christianity can only be understood in light of the burgeoning Christian movement’s internal diversity and against the background of the religious world of Greco-Roman antiquity....
The Gospel in the Past
Essays on the Historiography of the Evangelical Movement
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481322621
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-04-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-04-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
305 Pages
From the dawn of their movement in the eighteenth century, evangelicals composed narratives of the revivals that were drawing in large numbers of new converts. As evangelicals continued to write about...
Jesus, the Essenes, and Christian Origins
New Light on Ancient Texts and Communities
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481307772
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-03-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-03-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
248 Pages
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves near Qumran in 1947 sparked near endless speculation about the possible connections between the Essenes--purportedly the inhabitants of the settlement--and...
The Wesleyan Theological Heritage
Past, Present, and Future
Price: $74.99
ISBN: 9781481324236
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-03-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-02-15
Imprint: 1845 Books
338 Pages
As a living tradition, Wesleyan-Methodism has continued to grow and develop through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Since their establishment in 1965, the Wesleyan Theological Society and...
Exploring Christian Heritage
A Reader in History and Theology (Third Edition)
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481321945
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2024-08-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2024-08-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
343 Pages
Exploring Christian Heritage provides students and teachers with a rich and substantial introduction to the texts that have shaped the Christian faith. Including works by Augustine, Aquinas, Martin...
The Kaleidoscopic City
Hong Kong, Mission, and the Evolution of Global Pentecostalism
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481318976
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-11-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
279 Pages
The Kaleidoscopic City explores the development of Pentecostalism in Hong Kong between 1907 and 1942. Focusing primarily on Pentecostal missionaries and the Chinese leaders who worked alongside them,...
Sola Scriptura
Scripture's Final Authority in the Modern World
Price: $21.99
ISBN: 9781481320467
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-10-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
230 Pages
In modern times, evangelical Protestants have advocated for the belief that the Bible is the only real standard of truth and true Christian praxis for the church. But is this how the early Jews and...
A Storm of Images
Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World
Price: $42.99
ISBN: 9781481318228
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-09-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-09-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
287 Pages
In the eighth century, the Byzantine Empire began a campaign to remove or suppress sacred images that depicted Christ, the Virgin, or other holy figures, whether in paintings, mosaics, murals, or other...
The West African Revival
Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918–1929
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481318655
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-08-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-08-31
Imprint: Baylor University Press
244 Pages
In eleven short years, from 1918 to 1929, Faith Tabernacle Congregation, a small divine healing church in Philadelphia, spread over the Guinea Coast, garnering over 250 branches and nearly 11,000 members...
After Paul
The Apostle's Legacy in Early Christianity
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481318693
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-08-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-07-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
279 Pages
After Paul: The Apostle’s Legacy in Early Christianity focuses on the many ways Pauline thought and tradition were reinterpreted, reused, reframed, and reconstructed in the first centuries of Christianity....
The Gospel and Religious Freedom
Historical Studies in Evangelicalism and Political Engagement
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481319300
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-07-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-06-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
240 Pages
Religious freedom as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains a perennial concern across the globe. Over the centuries many evangelicals have not enjoyed this right in practice,...
Visions of Salvation
Chinese Christian Posters in an Age of Revolution
Price: $69.99
ISBN: 9781481316248
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-04-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
302 Pages
Between the May Fourth Movement of 1919 and the Communist Revolution of 1949, Chinese Christians had to compete with Nationalist and Communist ideologies over how best to save the nation. They, along...
Greco-Roman Associations, Deities, and Early Christianity
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481315166
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2022-10-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2022-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
484 Pages
Understanding associations in the Greco-Roman world enhances the study of the rise of early Christianity--whether at the micro-level of interpreting particular texts or at the macro-level of assessing...
In the Image of Her
Recovering Motherhood in the Christian Tradition
Price: $42.99
ISBN: 9781481317382
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2022-10-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
207 Pages
The body of the mother is both everywhere and nowhere in the Christian imagination. Western Christianity has long viewed the mother's body as a vessel. Through her, nothing less than the sin and...
Christ Groups and Associations
Foundational Essays
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481318211
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2022-08-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-08-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
432 Pages
The use of voluntary associations as a way to begin understanding Christ groups has become accepted practice in much of modern New Testament scholarship. This consensus has been decades in the making,...
Christianity Remade
The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481304054
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2022-08-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-07-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
263 Pages
If there is one question that haunts Indian Christians, it is this: "What does it mean to be Indian and Christian?" This matter of identity presents a unique challenge, especially today, in the face...
The Gospel in Latin America
Historical Studies in Evangelicalism and the Global South
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481317221
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2022-06-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-06-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
256 Pages
The shift of the center of gravity in world Christianity from the Global North to the Global South was arguably the most important development in the faith during the twentieth century. One of the most...
Ethiopian Christianity
History, Theology, Practice
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481306751
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2021-11-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2021-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
326 Pages
In Ethiopian Christianity Philip Esler presents a rich and comprehensive history of Christianity’s flourishing. But Esler is ever careful to situate this growth in the context of Ethiopia’s...
A Dangerous Parting
The Beheading of John the Baptist in Early Christian Memory
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481315227
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2021-11-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2021-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
228 Pages
Execution by beheading is a highly symbolic act. The grisly image of the severed head evokes a particular social and cultural location, functioning as a channel of figurative discourse specific to a...
The Good Shepherd
Image, Meaning, and Power
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481315371
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2021-09-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2021-09-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
205 Pages
A statuette of Egyptian King Pepi formidably wielding a shepherd's crook stands in stark contrast to a fresco of an unassuming Orpheus-like youth gently hoisting a sheep around his shoulders. Both...

Under the Olive Tree
Palestinian Christian Theology from the 1980s to the Present
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481323703
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-10-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
247 Pages
A Handbook to Second-Century Christianity
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481314152
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-10-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-10-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
744 Pages
Medieval Spirituality
An Introduction
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481320382
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-09-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-09-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
200 Pages
The Materiality of Early Christ Devotion
Artistic Innovation at Four Archaeological Sites
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481321631
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-09-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-08-30
Imprint: Baylor University Press
349 Pages
History of Early Christianity
Religion, Culture, Identity
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481313957
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-08-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-08-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
320 Pages
The Gospel in the Past
Essays on the Historiography of the Evangelical Movement
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481322621
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-04-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-04-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
305 Pages
Jesus, the Essenes, and Christian Origins
New Light on Ancient Texts and Communities
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481307772
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-03-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-03-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
248 Pages
The Wesleyan Theological Heritage
Past, Present, and Future
Price: $74.99
ISBN: 9781481324236
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-03-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-02-15
Imprint: 1845 Books
338 Pages
Exploring Christian Heritage
A Reader in History and Theology (Third Edition)
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481321945
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2024-08-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2024-08-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
343 Pages
The Kaleidoscopic City
Hong Kong, Mission, and the Evolution of Global Pentecostalism
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481318976
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-11-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
279 Pages
Sola Scriptura
Scripture's Final Authority in the Modern World
Price: $21.99
ISBN: 9781481320467
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-10-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
230 Pages
A Storm of Images
Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World
Price: $42.99
ISBN: 9781481318228
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-09-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-09-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
287 Pages
The West African Revival
Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918–1929
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481318655
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-08-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-08-31
Imprint: Baylor University Press
244 Pages
After Paul
The Apostle's Legacy in Early Christianity
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481318693
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-08-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-07-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
279 Pages
The Gospel and Religious Freedom
Historical Studies in Evangelicalism and Political Engagement
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481319300
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-07-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-06-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
240 Pages
Visions of Salvation
Chinese Christian Posters in an Age of Revolution
Price: $69.99
ISBN: 9781481316248
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-04-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
302 Pages
Greco-Roman Associations, Deities, and Early Christianity
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481315166
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2022-10-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2022-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
484 Pages
In the Image of Her
Recovering Motherhood in the Christian Tradition
Price: $42.99
ISBN: 9781481317382
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2022-10-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
207 Pages
Christ Groups and Associations
Foundational Essays
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481318211
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2022-08-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-08-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
432 Pages
Christianity Remade
The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481304054
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2022-08-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-07-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
263 Pages
The Gospel in Latin America
Historical Studies in Evangelicalism and the Global South
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481317221
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2022-06-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-06-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
256 Pages
Ethiopian Christianity
History, Theology, Practice
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481306751
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2021-11-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2021-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
326 Pages
A Dangerous Parting
The Beheading of John the Baptist in Early Christian Memory
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481315227
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2021-11-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2021-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
228 Pages
The Good Shepherd
Image, Meaning, and Power
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481315371
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2021-09-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2021-09-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
205 Pages