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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Sociologist Rodney Stark looks at the appeal of the Christian message itself, for example, how it brought a new conception of humanity to a world saturated with cruelty. IN CONTRAST with times past, ...

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 ...

Christianity is based on the beliefs and teachings laid out in the Bible, “regarding the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ”, according to History.com. The first part, the Old ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Last week, I wrote about President Obama’s use—overuse, in my view—of ...

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 ...