Introduction Postmillennialism is one of the three major Christian millennial frameworks, alongside premillennialism and amillennialism. Though often overshadowed in popular evangelical discourse by premillennialism, postmillennialism…
The idea that Christmas has always been a universally beloved Christian holiday is a modern assumption. In seventeenth-century England and colonial New England, Christmas became…
The Salvation Army emerged in the late nineteenth century as an innovative evangelical movement that fused revivalist theology with a disciplined, quasi-military structure aimed at…
For more than a century, the phrase “mainline Protestantism” has referred to a specific group of American Protestant denominations that held significant cultural, theological, and institutional influence.…
The Development of the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy: Origins, Debates, and Lasting Impact
Few modern theological documents have shaped evangelical identity as profoundly as the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (1978). Emerging from decades of debate over the nature of…
The First Vatican Council, better known as Vatican I, represents one of the most significant moments of self-definition in the modern history of the Roman Catholic…
The Old Testament Apocrypha—also known as the Deuterocanonical books—occupies a fascinating and sometimes controversial place in the history of the Church. These writings, composed between the close of…
The Protestant Reformation was not the work of one man but of many reformers whose ideas reshaped Christianity in Europe. Among them, Martin Luther and John Calvin stand as…
The story of how some Puritans evolved into Unitarians is one of the most fascinating transformations in religious history. What began as a movement seeking…
In the early decades of the 19th century, a region in upstate New York became the most spiritually and socially combustible area in the United…