Christian History Magazine Collection

Our magazine Christian History has its own website (christianhistorymagazine.org) but we have posted representative articles from back issues in this collection here. Find fascinating people, places and events of Christian History at your fingertips in a whole new way! Christian History Collection looks back at the rich content of the first 99 issues of Christian History magazine, from the first issue (Zinzendorf and the Moravians) published in 1982 through the last issue (Faith and the American Presidency) published in 2008. Selected articles from issues No. 1 - 99 are now available to download, search, browse and print, at no charge. To download full issues, or to read the latest magazine (Issue #100) visit christianhistorymagazine.org .

Read selected articles from back issues of Christian History. Articles are listed under the magazine they appeared in, from the most recent to earliest.

• Issue 99: Faith and the American Presidency

  Gary Scott Smith. “The American Moses” (George Washington)

• Issue 98: Christianity in China

  Tony Lambert. “As for Me and My House.” (Chinese house churches)
  Yading Li. “No Compromise: Wang MingDao (1900-1991)”

• Issue 97: The Holy Land

  Paul L. Maier. “Not One Stone Left upon Another” (Fall of Jerusalem)

• Issue 96: The Gnostic Hunger for Secret Knowledge

  D. Jeffrey Bingham. “One God, One Faith, One Salvation” (Irenaeus)

• Issue 95: The Gospel According to J. S. Bach

  Calvin R. Stapert. “To the Glory of God Alone”

• Issue 94: Building the City of God in a Crumbling World

  Bradley Nassif. “The Starving Body of Christ” (John Chrysostom)

• Issue 93: St. Benedict & Western Monasticism

  Carmen Acevedo Butcher. “The Blessing of Benedict”

• Issue 92: America’s 20th Century Evangelical Awakening

  Garth M. Rosell. “America’s Hour Has Struck” (Harold Ockenga & Fundamentalism)

• Issue 91: Michelangelo: Art for Faith’s Sake

  Laurel Gasque. “Larger than Life”

• Issue 90: Adoniram & Ann Judson; American Mission Pioneers

  Richard V. Pierard. “The Man Who Gave the Bible to the Burmese”

• Issue 89: Richard Baxter & the English Puritans

  Paul C. Lim. “A Pen in God’s Hand”

• Issue 88: C.S. Lewis: Pointing People to Reality

  Doris T. Myers. “Hearts in Training”

• Issue 87: Christianity in India: a Faith of Many Colors

  Keith J. White. “Jesus Was Her Guru” (Ramabai)

• Issue 86: George MacDonald: Writer Who Inspired C.S. Lewis

  Rolland Hein. “Life and Religion Are One”

• Issue 85: The Council of Nicea: Debating Jesus’ Divinity

  John Anthony Mcguckin. “The Road to Nicea”

• Issue 84: Pilgrims & Exiles: Amish, Mennonites, & Brethren

  Chris Armstrong & Jeff Bach. “A people of Conscience”
  Bruce Heydt. “Grace at the Negotiating Table” (Synod of Whitby)

• Issue 83: Mary in the Imagination of the Church

  David Lyle Jeffrey. “Hail Mary!”

• Issue 82: Phoebe Palmer: Mother of the Holiness Movement

  Charles Edward White. “Holiness Fire Starter”

• Issue 81: John Newton: Author of “Amazing Grace”

  Chris Armstrong. “The Amazingly Graced Life of John Newton”

• Issue 80: The First Bible Teachers

  Joseph T. Lienhard. “The First Battle for the Bible”

• Issue 79: African Apostles: Black Evangelists in Africa

  Ted Olsen. “Bishop Before His Time” (Samuel Adjai Crowther)

• Issue 78: J.R.R. Tolkien & The Lord of the Rings

  Clyde S. Kilby. “Meeting Professor Tolkien”

• Issue 77: Jonathan Edwards; Puritan Pastor & Theologian

  Stephen R. Holmes. “A Mind on Fire”

• Issue 76: The Christian Face of the Scientific Revolution

  Peter Harrison. “A God of Math and Order”
  Virginia Stem Owens. “Galileo and the Powers Above”

• Issue 75: G.K. Chesterton: Prolific Writer & Apologist

  Adam Schwartz. “The Road to Rome”

• Issue 74: Christians & Muslims

  James A Beverley. “Muhammad amid the Faiths”

• Issue 73: Thomas Aquinas: Greatest Medieval Theologian

  Ralph McInerny. “The Dazzling ‘Dumb Ox’ “

• Issue 72: How We Got Our History

  Everett Ferguson. “The Problem of Eusebius”

• Issue 71: The French Huguenots & the Wars of Religion

  Scott M. Manetsch. “The St. Bartholomew Day Massacre”

• Issue 70: Dante’s Guide to Heaven & Hell

  Roland Hein. “Divine Imagination”

• Issue 69: The Wesleys: Founders of Methodism

  Richard P. Heitzenrater. “A Tale of Two Brothers”

• Issue 68: Jan Hus: Incendiary Preacher of Prague

  Thomas A. Fudge. “To Build a Fire”

• Issue 67: St. Augustine: Sinner, Bishop, Saint

  Robert Payne. “The Dark Heart Filled With Light”

• Issue 66: How the West Was Really Won

  Ferenc Morton Szasz. “Preparing a Way in the Wilderness”

• Issue 65: Ten Influential Christians of the 20th Century

  Richard John Neuhau. “Globalism: Pope John Paul II”
  Ted Olsen. “Apologetics: C.S. Lewis”

• Issue 64: Anthony & the Desert Fathers

  Mark Galli. “The Best There Ever Was” (Antony of the Desert)

• Issue 63: How the Vikings Took up the Faith

  J. R. Christianson. “Denmark: Planting the Seed”

• Issue 62: Bound for Canaan: Africans in America

  Mark Galli. “Defeating the Conspiracy”

• Issue 61: A History of the Second Coming

  Dana Netherton. “Historic Premillennialism: Taking the Long View”

• Issue 60: How the Irish Were Saved

  Mary Cagney. “Patrick the Saint”

• Issue 59: The Life & Times of Jesus of Nazareth

  Ben Witherington III. “Primary Sources”

• Issue 58: The Rise of Pentecostalism

  Ted Olsen. “American Pentecost”

• Issue 57: Converting the Empire: Early Church Evangelism

  E. Glenn Hinson. “Ordinary Saints at First Church”

• Issue 56: David Livingstone: Missionary-Explorer in Africa

  Alvyn Austin. “Discovering Livingstone”

• Issue 55: The Monkey Trial & the Rise of Fundamentalism

  David Goetz. “The Monkey Trial”

• Issue 54: Eastern Orthodoxy

  John Chryssavgis. “The Spirit-Bearers”
  Bradley Nassif. “Kissers and Smashers” (Icon Wars)

• Issue 53: William Wilberforce: Fighting the Slave Trade

  Christopher D. Hancock. “The ‘Shrimp’ Who Stopped Slavery”

• Issue 52: Hudson Taylor & Missions to China

  Roger Steer. “Pushing Inward”

• Issue 51: Heresy in the Early Church

  Robert Payne. “A Hammer Struck at Heresy”

• Issue 50: Christianity & the American Revolution

  Harry Stout. “Preaching the Insurrection”

• Issue 49: Everyday Faith in the Middle Ages

  Joseph Lynch. “Religion with a Human Face”

• Issue 48: Thomas Cranmer & the English Reformation

  Mark Galli. “Courage when it Counted”

• Issue 47: The Apostle Paul & His Times

  James D. Smith III. “Boundary Breaker”

• Issue 46: John Knox & The Scottish Reformation

  R. Tudor Jones. “Preacher of Revolution”

• Issue 45: Camp Meetings & Circuit Riders: Frontier Revivals

  Mark Galli. “Revival at Cane Ridge”

• Issue 44: John Chrysostom: Legendary Early Church Preacher

  Robert A. Krupp. “Golden Tongue and Iron WIll”

• Issue 43: How We Got Our Bible, Canon to King James

  Tony Lane. “The Crown of English Bibles”

• Issue 42: St. Francis of Assisi

  Editors. “Francis’ Troubled World”

• Issue 41: The American Puritans

  Edwin S. Gaustad. “Quest for Pure Christianity”

• Issue 40: The Crusades

  Mark Galli. “Bloody Pilgrimage” (First Crusade)

• Issue 39: Martin Luther: The Later Years

  Mark U. Edwards, jr. “After the Revolution”

• Issue 38: George Whitefield Preacher and Revivalist

  Harry S. Stout. “Heavenly Comet”

• Issue 37: Worship in the Early Church

  E. Glenn Hinson. “Worshipping Like Pagans?”

• Issue 36: William Carey: 19th Century Missionary to India

  Mark Galli. “The Man Who Wouldn’t Give up”

• Issue 35: Columbus & Christianity in America

  Kevin A Miller. “Why Did Columbus Sail?”

• Issue 34: Martin Luther: The Reformer’s Early Years

  James M. Kittelson. “The Accidental Revolutionary”

• Issue 33: Christianity & the Civil War

  Mark A. Noll. “The Puzzling Faith of Abraham Lincoln”

• Issue 32: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Theologian in Nazi Germany

  Geffrey B. Kelly. “The Life and Death of a Modern Martyr”

• Issue 31: Golden Age of Hymns

  Robin A. Leaver. “The Hymn Explosion”

• Issue 30: Women in the Medieval Church

  Ann K. Warren. “Five Religious Options for Medieval Women”

• Issue 29: Charles Spurgeon: England’s “Prince of Preachers”

  Patricia Stallings. “The Life & Times of Charles H. Spurgeon”

• Issue 28: 100 Most Important Events in Church History

  David F. Wright “The Edict of Milan”

• Issue 27: Persecution in the Early Church

  Robert L. Wilken. “The Piety of the Persecutors”

• Issue 26: William & Catherine Booth: Salvation Army Founders

  Norman H. Murdoch. “The Army Mother”
  Norman H. Murdoch. “The General”

• Issue 25: Dwight L. Moody: 19th Century Evangelist

  David Maas. “The Life & Times of D.L. Moody”

• Issue 24: Bernard of Clairvaux, Medieval Reformer and Mystic

  Tony Lane. “A 12th-Century Man for All Seasons”

• Issue 23: Spiritual Awakenings in North America

  The Editors. “Awakenings in America: Seaons of the Spirit”

• Issue 22: Waldensians: Medieval “Evangelicals”

  Giorgio Bouchard. “An Ancient and Undying Light”

• Issue 21: Caspar Schwenckfeld: Forgotten Reformer

  Editors of Christian History. “The Life and Thought of Caspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig”

• Issue 20: Charles Finney” American Revivalism

  James E. Johnson. “Charles Grandison Finney: Father of American Revivalism”

• Issue 19: Money in Christian History, Part II

  Stephen Lang. “The Urge for Poverty”

• Issue 18: How Christianity Came to Russia

  David M. Kemmerer. “Of Mass Baptisms, National Churches, and the Great Commission” (Vladimir of Kiev)

• Issue 17: Women in the Early Church

  Catherine Kroeger. “The Neglected History of Women in the Early Church.”

• Issue 16: William Tyndale: Early Reformer & Bible Translator

  Tony Lane. “A Man for All People: Introducing William Tyndale.”

• Issue 15: St. Augustine of Hippo

  Randy Petersen. “Augustine’s Life and Times”

• Issue 14: Money in Christian History

  John R. Meuther. “Money and the Bible”

• Issue 13: Jan Amos Comenius: Father of Modern Education

  Eve Chybova Bock. “Seeking a Better Way”

• Issue 12: John Calvin: Reformer, Pastor, Theologian

  T.H.L. Parker. “The Life and Times of John Calvin”

• Issue 11: John Bunyan & Pilgrim’s Progress

  E. Beatrice Batson. “John Bunyan: The Man, Preacher and Author”

• Issue 10: Pietism: The Inner Experience of Faith

  F. Ernest Stoeffler. “Can These Bones Live?”

• Issue 9: Heritage of Freedom: Dissenters, Reformers, Pioneers

  Philip McNair. “Back to the New Testament: the Plymouth Brethren”

• Issue 8: Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening

  J. Stephen Lang and Mark A. Noll. “Colonial New England: An Old Order, New Awakening”

• Issue 7: C.S. Lewis: His Life, Thought, & Theology

  Lyle W. Dorsett. “C.S. Lewis: A Profile of His Life”

• Issue 6: The Baptists

  Roger Hayden. “To Walk in All His Ways”

• Issue 5: Radical Reformation: The Anabaptists

  Walter Klaassen. “A Fire That Spread Anabaptist Beginnings”

• Issue 4: Zwingli: Father of the Swiss Reformation

  John B. Payne. “Zwingli and Luther: The Giant vs. Hercules”

• Issue 3: John Wycliffe: Bible Translator

  Donald L. Roberts. “John Wycliffe and the Dawn of the Reformation”

• Issue 2: John Wesley: Leader of the Methodist Movement

  Editors of Christian History. “Revival and Revolution”

• Issue 1: Zinzendorf & the Moravians

  Editors of Christian History. “The Rich Young Ruler Who Said Yes”