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Issue 1: Zinzendorf and the Moravians

Topics Covered:

• The World of 1732
• The Moravian Mission
• Zinzendorf and the Moravians
• Moravian Hymns
• Early Hernhut

Issue 2: John Wesley: Leader of the Methodist Movement

Topics Covered:

• Revival and Revolution
• Wesley's Organization
• The 18th Century World of John Wesley
• From Wesley to Wilberforce
• Wesley and Christian History

Issue 3: John Wycliffe: Bible Translator

Topics Covered:

• Wycliffe's England
• The Five Bulls of Pope Gregory XI Against Wycliffe
• Controversy over the Eucharist
• Why Wycliffe Translated the Bible
• Bible Translation Since Wycliffe

Issue 4: Zwingli: Father of the Swiss Reformation

Topics Covered:

• Zwingli and Luther
• Zwingli and the Black Death
• Zwingli's 67 Theses
• The Spread of Zwingli's Reformation
• Replacing the Mass with a New Order of Worship

Issue 5: Radical Reformation: The Anabaptists

Topics Covered

• Anabaptist Beginnings
• Stories of Michael Sattler, Paul Glock, and Klaus von Grafeneck
• The Martyrdom of Hans Bret
• Sixteenth Century Responses to the Anabaptists
• Anabaptist Missions

Issue 6: The Baptists

Topics Covered:

• The Emergence from the English Church
• Baptists on Religious Liberty
• Five Baptist Convictions
• Gallery of Baptist Leaders
• The History of the Baptist Movement

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

Topics Covered:

• Profile of C.S. Lewis
• Peter Kreeft on C.S. Lewis' View of History
• C.S. Lewis on Reason, Imagination and Meaning
• C.S. Lewis on God's Transcendence
• C.S. Lewis' Last Published Article on Death

Issue 8: Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening

Topics Covered:

• Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening
• Puritanism in a New Age
• The American Vision of the Covenant
• Extracts from Two Sermons by Edwards
• Early Letters of Jonathan Edwards

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

Topics Covered:

• Reformers Before the Reformation
• The Puritans in Britain and America
• The Moravians
• The Plymouth Brethren
• Christians Against the Nazis

Issue 10: Pietism: The Inner Experience of Faith

Topics Covered:

• The Maligned Movement Reexamined
• The Roots of Pietism
• Addressing Formalism
• Preaching, Social Concern, and Missions in Pietism
• The Wissahickon Hermits

Issue 11: John Bunyan & Pilgrim's Progress

Topics Covered:

• The Writing of Pilgrim's Progress
• Bunyan in Prison
• The Quakers
• The Fifth Monarchy Movement
• Bunyan's Last Sermon

Issue 12: John Calvin: Reformer, Pastor, Theologian

Topics Covered:

• The Life of John Calvin
• Calvin and Missions
• Calvin on Predestination
• Modern Democracy and the Reformation
• Calvin and Servetus

Issue 13: Jan Amos Comenius: Father of Modern Education

Topics Covered:

• The Life of Comenius
• Jan Amos Comenius and Rene Descartes
• The Thirty Years War
• The Imaginative Work by Comenius
• The Educational Legacy of Comenius

Issue 14: Money in Christian History

Topics Covered:

• A Survey of the Bible on Money and Wealth
• St. Francis of Assisi on Poverty
• Luther on the Use of Money
• The Protestant Ethic of Prosperity
• Money and the Reformation

Issue 15: St. Augustine of Hippo

Topics Covered:

• Augustine's Life and Times
• The Setting of Augustine's Confessions
• Augustine on Celibacy
• The City of God
• John Paul II on Augustine

Issue 16: William Tyndale: Early Reformer and Bible Translator

Topics Covered:

• The Life of William Tyndale
• Tyndale's Theology
• Tyndale and Gutenberg
• The Origin and Growth of the Bible in English
• Henry VIII

Issue 17: Women in the Early Church

Topics Covered:

• Recovering a Neglected History
• Controversy over Female Leadership
• Women and Heresy
• The Apostle Paul on Women in the Church
• Jesus and Women

Issue 18: How Christianity Came to Russia

Topics Covered:

• The History of Russian Christianity
• Christianity in the Soviet Union
• Orthodoxy in Russia
• Eastern Slavic Spirituality
• Freedom and Religion

Issue 19: Money in Christian History, Part 2

Topics Covered:

• Christian Asceticism from the Early Church Through the Reformation
• Puritans and Money
• John Wesley's Lessons on Money
• Wisdom from John Ploughman
• The Charity of Women

Issue 20: Charles Finney: American Revivalism

Topics Covered:

• Finney's Personal Reflections
• The Nineteenth Century Backdrop
• Trans-Atlantic Revivalism
• Finney's Christian Perfection
• The Heritage of Jonathan Edwards

Issue 21: Casper Schwenckfeld: Forgotten Reformer

Topics Covered:

• Germanic States Before the Seventeenth Century
• Schwenckfeld's Aim
• Casper Schwenckfeld on the Christian Life
• The Journey to America
• Freedom in Pennsylvania

Issue 22: Waldensians: Medieval "Evangelicals"

Topics Covered:

• Waldo of Lyons
• The Waldensians from the Twelfth Century to the Protestant Reformation
• The Glorious Return
• Waldensians in Uruguay and Argentina
• Waldensians in America

Issue 23: Spiritual Awakenings in North America

Topics Covered:

• Origins of American Awakenings in New England
• After the Great Awakening
• Francis Asbury and the Methodist Circuit Riders
• Charles Finney and the Second Great Awakening
• Peter Cartwright

Issue 24: Bernard of Clairvaux: Medieval Reformer and Mystic

Topics Covered:

• The Life and Thought of Bernard of Clairvaux
• Bernard of Clairvaux and Scripture
• The Legacy of Bernard of Clairvaux in John Calvin's Thought
• Cistercians Today
• Bernard of Clairvaus in a Violent Historical Era

Issue 25: Dwight Moody: 19th Century Evangelist

Topics Covered:

• The Life of Dwight Moody
• Five Questions about Moody's Theology
• How Moody Changed Revivalism
• Moody's Contribution to Christian Publishing
• Moody's Education

Issue 26: William & Catherine Booth: Salvation Army Founders

Topics Covered:

• The Life of William Booth
• Catherine Booth and Female Ministry
• The Rise of the Salvation Army
• The Influence of American Revivalists on the Booths
• Excerpts from the Booth's Writings

Issue 27: Persecution in the Early Church

Topics Covered:

• The Piety of the Persecutors
• Emperor Constantine
• Views on Christian Martyrdom
• Cyprian's Letter to Banished Christians
• The Triumph of Christianity

Issue 28: The 100 Most Important Events in Church History

Topics Covered:

• The Council of Nicea
• The East-West Schism
• Gutenberg Produces the First Printed Bible
• The Great Awakening
• And Much More

Issue 29: Charles Spurgeon: England's "Prince of Preachers"

Topics Covered:

• Spurgeon's Conversion Story
• Spurgeon's Theology
• Victorian England
• The Down-Grade Controversy
• Spurgeon's Political Influence

Issue 30: Women in the Medieval Church

Topics Covered:

• Catherine of Siena
• Religious Options for Women
• Life in a Medieval Village
• Joan of Arc
• Mysticism

Issue 31: The Golden Age of Hymns

Topics Covered:

• The Life of Charles Wesley
• Eighteenth Century English Hymnody
• The Story Behind the Doxology
• Hymnody and Poetry
• The Development of Spirituals

Issue 32: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Theologian in Nazi Germany

Topics Covered:

• Selections from Bonhoeffer's Writings
• Bonhoeffer's Theology
• Resisting the Nazis
• Friends in America at Union Theological Seminary
• Eberhard Bethge's Reflections on Bonhoeffer

Issue 33: Christianity and the Civil War

Topics Covered:

• The Faith of Abraham Lincoln
• Religion and Politics During the War
• Anti-Slavery Pamphlets
• Christians Who Supported Slavery
• Civil War Revivals

Issue 34: Martin Luther: The Reformer's Early Years

Topics Covered:

• Luther's Accidental Revolution
• Luther's Childhood
• Justification by Faith
• The Real 95 Theses
• The Theology of Martin Luther

Issue 35: Columbus and Christianity in the Americas

Topics Covered:

• The Native American Response to Christianity
• Christian Responses to Columbus
• Christian Missions in America
• Spanish Expansion
• Notes from Columbus' Journal

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

Topics Covered:

• The Life of William Carey
• Christianity in India
• William Carey's Family
• Carey's "11 Commandments of Missions"
• William Carey's Lasting Contributions

Issue 37: Worship in the Early Church

Topics Covered:

• Early Hymnody
• Historical Documents
• Baptism in 3rd Century Rome
• Worship Spaces
• Contrasting Pagan Worship and Ritual

Issue 38: George Whitefield: 17th c. Preacher & Revivalist

Topics Covered:

• Whitefield's Preaching
• The 18th Century Revival
• Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield
• Cornelius Winter on George Whitefield's Death
• Famous Whitefield Quotes

Issue 39: Martin Luther: The Later Years

Topics Covered:

• Luther's Effect on Christian Worship
• Luther's Preaching
• The Legacy of Martin Luther
• The Story Behind Luther's Greatest Hymn
• Creation of the Lutheran Church

Issue 40: The Crusades

Topics Covered:

• The Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
• Bernard of Clairvaux on the Crusades
• The Muslim Defense
• Women in the Crusades
• Effects on Christian Warfare

Issue 41: The American Puritans

Topics Covered:

• The First Hundred Years in America
• The Mathers Family
• Puritan Preaching
• Witch Hunting in Salem
• Biographies of Five Important Puritans

Issue 42: St. Francis of Assisi

Topics Covered:

• The Poverty of St. Francis
• Possessions and Holiness
• Controversial Passages
• The Personality of St. Francis
• Fractures in the St. Franciscan Order

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

Topics Covered:

• The King James Version
• Tyndale's Comfort to Persecuted Bible Readers
• Translating Psalm 23
• The Emergence of the New Testament
• Stories Behind the Greek Manuscripts

Issue 44: John Chrysostom: Legendary Early Church Preacher

Topics Covered:

• The Life of John Chrysostom
• Chrysostom's Sermons
• A Sermon on the Healing of the Paralytic
• Timeline of Chrysostom's Life
• John Chrysostom and Roman Culture

Issue 45: Camp Meetings & Circuit Riders: Frontier Revivals

Topics Covered:

• Eyewitness Accounts
• The Revival and Cane Ridge
• Revivalist Preaching
• The Independent Black Church
• On Peter Cartwright's Autobiography

Issue 46: John Knox and the Scottish Reformation

Topics Covered:

• The Preaching of John Knox
• Politics and Idolatry
• The Scots Confession
• Christian Worship in Scotland
• Church Discipline

Issue 47: The Apostle Paul and His Times

Topics Covered:

• Life in a Roman Prison
• Travel in the Ancient World
• Pluralistic Challenges to the Gospel
• The Real Writer of Romans
• Important Dates in Paul's Life

Issue 48: Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation

Topics Covered:

• The Life of Thomas Cranmer
• Queen Mary's Persecution of Protestants
• Destruction of Monasteries
• The Martyrdom of Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer
• The English Reformation

Issue 49: Everyday Faith in the Middle Ages

Topics Covered:

• The Bible in Medieval Monasteries
• Christianity During the Black Death
• Medieval Heresies
• Cathedrals
• The Life of Margery Kempe

Issue 50: Christianity and the American Revolution

Topics Covered:

• Preaching Insurrection and Rebellion
• Chaplains in the Continental Army
• Religious Beliefs of the Founders
• Christians Against Independence
• Mark Noll on the Impact of the Revolution

Issue 51: Heresy in the Early Church

Topics Covered:

• The Council of Nicea
• Origen
• The Montanist Controversy
• The Biblical Jesus
• Athanasius

Issue 52: Hudson Taylor and Missions to China

Topics Covered:

• History of Missions in China
• Women Missionaries
• Breaking Free from Missionary Control
• The Boxer Rebellion
• The Influence of the West

Issue 53: William Wilberforce: Fighting the Slave Trade

Topics Covered:

• An Introduction to the Nineteenth Century
• Lord Shaftesbury and William Gladstone
• Child Labor
• Prison Reform
• Christian Ministry in the Inner City

Issue 54: Eastern Orthodoxy

Topics Covered:

• Four Key Differences Between the Orthodox and Protestants
• The First Seven Ecumenical Councils
• Eastern Orthodox Worship
• An Interview with Bartholomew I
• Attempts at Reunion

Issue 55: The Monkey Trial and the Rise of Fundamentalism

Topics Covered:

• The First Century of American Christianity
• Reflections from the Press
• The People and Organizations of Fundamentalism
• J. Gresham Machen on Liberalism
• Conservative Women

Issue 56: David Livingstone: Missionary-Explorer in Africa

Topics Covered:

• Livingstone As Scientist
• Missionary Explorers
• Henry Stanley and Livingstone
• Livingstone's Family Life
• Western Missionaries After Livingstone

Issue 57: Converting the Empire: Early Church Evangelism

Topics Covered:

• Responding to Strange Accusations
• The Context of the Empire
• Early Christian Martyrs
• Competing Religions
• Little-Known Early Evangelists

Issue 58: The Rise of Pentecostalism

Topics Covered:

• The Azusa Street Revival
• The Oneness Movement
• Latinos and Pentecostalism
• Aimee Semple McPherson
• Debates over Sanctification

Issue 59: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Topics Covered:

• History in the Four Gospels
• Ethnic and Religious Tension in the Middle East
• Travel in First-Century Palestine
• Fishing in Galilee
• Life at the Synagogue

Issue 60: How the Irish Were Saved

Topics Covered:

• Patrick the Saint
• The Theology of Celtic Christianity
• Early Celtic Leaders
• The History of "Be Thou My Vision"
• The Viking Invasion

Issue 61: A History of the Second Coming

Topics Covered:

• Historic Millennialism
• Medieval Apocalypse
• Luther and Calvin on the Doctrine of the Last Things
• American Christianity and Jonathan Edwards
• Dispensationalism

Issue 62: Bound for Canann: Africans in America

Topics Covered:

• Black Christianity Before the Civil War
• The Nat Turner Rebellion
• Abolitionism
• The Black Methodists
• The Baptist Denomination

Issue 63: How the Vikings Took Up the Faith

Topics Covered:

• King Olaf Haraldsson
• Reading Runestones and Graveyards
• The Conversion of Scandanavia
• Erik the Red
• The Conversion of Iceland

Issue 64: Antony and the Desert Fathers: Extreme Faith

Topics Covered:

• Antony of the Desert
• The Urban Life of Early Monks
• The Life of Jerome
• The Theology of the Desert Fathers
• Skirmishes with Demons

Issue 65: Ten Influential Christians of the 20th Century

Individuals Covered:

• Billy Graham
• William Seymour
• Mother Teresa
• Karl Barth
• C.S. Lewis
• John XXIII
• Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
• John Paul II
• John R. Mott
• Martin Luther King, Jr.

Issue 66: How the West Was Really Won

Topics Covered:

• Preachers in the West
• Christianity and the California Gold Rush
• The Whitman Massacre
• The Life of Sheldon Jackson
• The Early Years of Mormonism

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

Topics Covered:

• Augustine's Five Most Distinctive Teachings
• The Confessions
• Contemporary Critics
• The Early Years of Augustine
• Augustine and Pelagianism

Issue 68: Jan Hus: Incendiary Preacher of Prague

Topics Covered:

• Jan Hus' Zeal for Reform
• The Legacy of Hus Among Czech Christians
• The Shared Ideas of Wyclif and Luther
• Jan Hus and the Popes
• Preaching and Reform

Issue 69: The Wesleys: Founders of Methodism

Topics Covered:

• The Wesleys in America
• Marriage and Family
• The Disagreement over Holiness
• The Wesleys and the Expansion of Print Media
• The Development of Methodism

Issue 70: Dante's Guide to Heaven and Hell

Topics Covered:

• Dante's Theology
• Divine Imagination
• Purgatory
• The Translation of Dante's Works
• Dante's Lesser-Known Works

Issue 71: The French Huguenots and the Wars of Religion

Topics Covered:

• The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre
• Reforming Doctrine and Restructuring Christian Life
• John Calvin's Prefatory Address
• Pierre Viret, the Forgotten Reformer
• Sebastien Fath on Pluralism and Evangelicalism in Contemporary France

Issue 72: How We Got Our History

Topics Covered:

• Eusebius
• Bede and the History of the Church in England
• Medieval Churches
• Renaissance Scholarship and the Papacy
• Philip Schaff, Father of American Church History

Issue 73: Thomas Aquinas: Greatest Medieval Theologian

Topics Covered:

• Encountering Aristotle
• The End of His Writing Career
• Aquinas and Higher Education
• Benedictines, Franciscans, and Dominicans
• Aquinas on Government, Law, and Economics

Issue 74: Christians and Muslims

Topics Covered:

• The Prophecy of Muhammad
• Secrets of Islam's Success and Spread
• The Crusades
• The Battle of Tours
• Jihad

Issue 75: G.K. Chesterton: Prolific Writer and Apologist

Topics Covered:

• Chesterton's Spiritual Journey
• Chesterton on the Working Class in Britain
• The Intellectual Contemporaries of Chesterton
• Chesterton's Spiritual Journey
• Published Works in Addition to Orthodoxy

Issue 76: The Christian Face of the Scientific Revolution

Topics Covered:

• Galileo and the Roman Catholic Church
• Johannes Kepler
• The Reformers and Copernicus
• Blaise Pascal on Math and Physics, Faith and Revelation
• Isaac Newton on Theology and Science

Issue 77: Jonathan Edwards: Puritan Pastor and Theologian

Topics Covered:

• Puritanism and the Enlightenment
• Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield
• The Great Awakening
• William James on Jonathan Edwards
• The Northhampton Eviction

Issue 78: J.R.R. Tolkien and Lord of the Rings

Topics Covered:

• Clyde S. Kilby on Tolkien
• Tolkien's Philology
• J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis
• Sacramental Imagination
• Good and Evil

Issue 79: African Apostles: Black Evangelists in Africa

Topics Covered:

• Henry Vinn's Mission in Africa
• Samuel Ajayi Crowther: The First Anglican Bishop in Africa
• Converting from Islam
• Second Generation African Christians
• West Africa's Aladura Churches

Issue 80: The First Bible Teachers

Topics Covered:

• Irenaeus on the Old Testament
• Habits of Highly Effective Bible Readers
• Origen's Allegories
• The Cappadocian Fathers and the Trinity
• The Church Fathers on Scripture

Issue 81: John Newton: Author of "Amazing Grace"

Topics Covered:

• John Newton's Life and Times
• The Friendship of William Cowper
• England's Evangelical Underground
• The Story Behind the Jesus Fish
• Newton's Letters

Issue 82: Phoebe Palmer: Mother of the Holiness Movement

Topics Covered:

• Phoebe Palmer and Religious Revival
• Leaders of the Holiness Movement
• The Holiness Movement Across Denominational Barriers
• The Da Vinci Code
• Women Preachers in the Holiness Movement

Issue 83: Mary in the Imagination of the Church

Topics Covered:

• Timothy George on a Protestant Mary
• The Nativity Story and Tradition
• Mary's Life During Jesus' Childhood
• Mary at the Cross
• Martin Luther on the Nativity

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

Topics Covered:

• America's Anabaptists
• William Penn
• The Brethren Love Feast
• Modernity and the Anabaptist Movement
• David Brainerd

Issue 85: The Council of Nicaea: Debating Jesus' Divinity

Topics Covered:

• How Arianism Almost Won
• The Road to Nicaea
• Key Players at Nicaea
• Athanasius and Orthodoxy
• The Aftermath of Nicaea

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

Topics Covered:

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth on Christian Experience
• George MacDonald's Sermons
• George MacDonald's Use of Fiction
• Victorian Christianity
• The Faith of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, and John Bunyan

Issue 87: Christianity in India: A Faith of Many Colors

Topics Covered:

• The Social Context of India
• First Missionaries to India
• Indian Philosophy
• "Untouchable" Christians
• Indigenous Christian Movements

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

Topics Covered:

• Douglas Gresham on His Friend, C.S. Lewis
• C.S. Lewis and Philosophy
• The Literary Time Traveler
• C.S. Lewis on the Proper Christian Response to War
• Imagination and Theological Training

Issue 89: Richard Baxter and the English Puritans

Topics Covered:

• J.I. Packer on the Puritans
• Richard Baxter As Model Pastor
• The Origin of the Puritan Work Ethic
• William Perkins: The C.S. Lewis of the Puritan Movement
• John Geree's 1646 Tract on Puritanism

Issue 90: Adoniram and Ann Judson: American Mission Pioneers

Topics Covered:

• Adoniram Judson As a Missionary
• Mission in 19th Century Burma
• Early Missions Movements in America
• The Music of Missions
• The Legacy of the Judsons

Issue 91: Michelangelo: Art for Faith's Sake

Topics Covered:

• The Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel
• Themes of Christ's Death in Michelangelo's Works
• Rebirth and Reform in Renaissance Italy
• Bruce Herman on Fra Angelico
• Justification Depicted in Living Color

Issue 92: America's 20th Century Evangelical Awakening

Topics Covered:

• Fundamentalism in Early 20th Century America
• Billy Graham's Crusades
• The Parachurch Phenomenon
• The New Evangelical Conscience
• Youth for Christ

Issue 93: St. Benedict and Western Monasticisms

Topics Covered:

• The Influence of Benedict
• Monasticism During Charlemagne's Reign
• Contemporary Monasticism
• William Wilberforce and John Newton
• Richard Foster on Jean-Pierre de Caussade

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

Topics Covered:

• The Fall of Rome
• John Chrysostom
• Abraham Kuyper on Christ
• Encounters with Islam
• Calvin, Luther, Zwingli, and Bucer on the Role of Government

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

Topics Covered:

• Bach's Lutheran Faith
• Sermons that Sing
• Bach's Music in Japan
• Lutheran Hymnody and J.S. Bach
• Christ's Suffering in Bach's Hymnody

Issue 96: The Gnostic Hunger for Secret Knowledge

Topics Covered:

• The Emergence of Gnosticism
• The Writings of Irenaeus Against Gnosticism
• Christian Belief Before the Creeds
• The Rejection of the Gnostic Gospels
• Modern Instances of Gnosticism in the Church

Issue 97: The Holy Land

Topics Covered:

• The Fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70
• Monastic Christians in Palestine
• The Holy Land During the Byzantine Era
• The Battle over Christ's Tomb
• The History of Christianity During Persian and Muslim Persecution

Issue 98: Christianity in China

Topics Covered:

• The Emergence and Growth of the House-Church Movement
• Christian Intellectuals in China
• China in the 20th Century
• Missionaries in China
• Worship under the Political Constraint of Communism

Issue 99: Faith and the American Presidency

Topics Covered:

• Civil Religion in America
• George Washington's 1796 Farewell Address
• Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
• Harry Truman on the Nation of Israel
• Ronald Reagan's Controversial "Evil Empire" Speech on the Soviet Union

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