Issues & Challenges of the Church
Buy the Issues & Challenges Set and Save!
This set brings you four Christian History & Biography issues on the various challenges facing the Church both in the past and today for only $19.95! This set includes:
- #14 Money in Christian History
- #76 The Christian Face of the Scientific Revolution
- #83 Mary in the Imagination of the Church
- #85 The Council of Nicaea: Debating Jesus' Divinity
Issue 96: The Gnostic Hunger For Secret Knowledge
This issues lays out the basic facts that will help you evaluate and respond to this dizzying array of wild theories and popular books that promote additional gospels, early church conspiracies, and the rediscovery of the true Christian faith. You will learn who the Gnostics really were and why the early church called them heretics.
Click here to learn more.
Issue 94. Building the City of God in a Crumbling World
In this 25th Anniversary Issue, Christian History & Biography offers you a selection of articles focused on building the City of God—living in love—in a crumbling world.
Click here to learn more.
Issue 85. The Council of Nicaea: Debating Jesus' Divinity
Learn about the issues that gave rise to the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. and the debates that followed it with this issue of Christian History & Biography!
Click here to learn more.
Issue 83. Mary in the Imagination of the Church
Meet the flesh-and-blood woman God chose as the vessel of the Incarnation. Meet the scholars, priests, and poets who for centuries have fulfilled the prophecy of our Lord's mother that "all generations will call me blessed."
Click here to learn more.
Issue 76. The Christian Face of the Scientific Revolution
From the days of Plato, a chasm has existed between faith and scientific inquiry, between the supernatural and natural. But was Plato accurate? Are the things of science and the things of God incompatible? For Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Newton, there was only one answer: No.
Click here to learn more.
Issue 74. Christians & Muslims
A 1300-year history riddled with wars, persecutions, and intolerance has left Christians and Muslims wary of conversation and skeptical of long-lasting peace. Christian History & Biography asked scholars to examine the historical record and tell us what happened when Christians met Muslims on the world stage.
Click here to learn more.
Issue 61. The End: A History of the Second Coming
As believers, we fervently anticipate the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ—on this point we all agree. How, when, and why will He come back? This issue of Christian History & Biography, devoted to the history of Christian eschatology, lends perspective to the full breadth of this question (and its answer).
Click here to learn more.
Issue 59. The Life & Times of Jesus of Nazareth
This issue offers well-researched material on literary genres, social hierarchies, racial divisions, political corruption, false messiahs, travel and more from the time of Jesus.
Click here to learn more.
Issue 43. How We Got Our Bible, Canon to King James
Why was the Gospel of Thomas left outside the canon? Did all of the early church leaders agree on which books should be canonized? When and how were these sacred texts finally translated into English? These questions and many more are addressed in this insightful and informative issue of Christian History & Biography.
Click here to learn more.
Issue 19. Money in Christian History, Part II
What does it mean to live and give sacrificially? Christian History & Biography provides several historical answers to this timeless, confusing question.
Click here to learn more.
Issue 14. Money in Christian History
The careful dance between economics and true faith commenced during the early days of Israel, and today we still field a plethora of questions and offer few answers. Christian History & Biography offers this issue as an historical survey of the Church's theology of money and its usage on individual and institutional levels.
Click here to learn more.
