LOWER OXFORD — The Tyndale Society (USA) celebrated the 500th anniversary of the translation of the New Testament in English ...

Five hundred years ago, in the early spring of 1526, browsers at the booksellers’ stalls clustered in the narrow lanes that ...

Professor Jack Scarisbrick, who has died aged 97, was known to generations of history students as the author of the classic ...

Calvinism, properly speaking, is a term which belongs to the Continent rather than to Great Britain. At the same time as John Calvin was leading the work of the Reformation in Switzerland and France, ...

Who are the Fathers of Protestantism? For a series of lectures (at Jewish Theological Seminary of America) on “Classics of Western Religion,” Canada-born Church Historian John Thomas McNeill had to ...

Christmas is for the Japanese, rather miserably, a regular working day. This might easily not have been the case. The Japanese were once on the verge of adopting the Christian faith at every strata of ...

Most historians would agree that the English Reformation took place over a century or more. There were moves and counter-moves along the way but looking back certain moments are still remembered as ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla are currently in Rome meeting with Pope Leo in their first official meeting with the pontiff since his election. Their meeting will mark an historic occasion as King ...

The supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church joined with the British monarch for a joint prayer in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, breaking an ecumenical barrier that has existed for approximately 500 ...

LONDON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The sight of King Charles praying with Pope Leo at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel signalled the latest step in a historic reconciliation between the Catholic Church and the ...

Lasting from 1485 to 1603 AD, the Tudor period is one of the most important, and fascinating, periods of English history. It’s an era marked by political intrigue, cultural renaissance and major ...

In the second chapter of God Is An Englishman, Bijan Omrani recounts a story that began in Paisley (a town just to the west of Glasgow) in August 1928, at the end of a warm day. A shop assistant named ...