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Step into a world where faith shapes empires, sparks revolutions, and leaves its mark on kings, councils, cathedrals, and common lives. From the rise of Christian doctrine and the clash of ancient beliefs to inquisitions, reformations, missions, and mystic symbols, these works trace the dramatic struggle between conscience, power, and the sacred. This bookshelf is a sweeping journey through the ideas and institutions that helped remake civilizations.

by Robert Lewis Dabney

by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jr. Joseph Smith

by John Jewel

by Aurora Mardiganian

by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

by Julius Wellhausen

by Joseph Krauskopf

by Sir Thomas Walker Arnold

by James Anthony Froude

by Flavius Josephus

by Erwin N. Thompson

by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

by Cambrensis Giraldus

by Susa Young Gates

by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

by Rafael Sabatini

by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

by John R. Young

by Lucy Smith

by Origen

by Walter M. (Walter Marion) Chandler

by Walter M. (Walter Marion) Chandler

by Solomon Maimon

by Heinrich Graetz

by Fustel de Coulanges

by Anonymous

by Joseph McCabe

by active 180 Celsus (Platonic philosopher), Siculus Diodorus, Flavius Josephus, Emperor of Rome Julian, Porphyry, Cornelius Tacitus

by Lewis Hodous

by Rufus Anderson

by Alain

by Moritz Busch

by Marc Lescarbot

by J.-B.-J. (Jean-Baptiste-Joseph) Champagnac

by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

by Alice Morse Earle

by Adolphe Thiers

by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

by Thomas Carlyle

by Ferdinand Gregorovius

by Francis Parkman

by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

by Friedrich Schiller

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

by Benedictus de Spinoza

by John Lothrop Motley

by James Anthony Froude

by Rev. Thomas Perkins

by James E. (James Edward) Talmage

by Punahou School

by Charles Foster Kent, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks

by Otto von Corvin

by Thomas Henry Huxley

by Ioannes Kondylakes

by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jr. Joseph Smith

by J. Allanson (James Allanson) Picton

by Henry Waller, Edward Hoare

by King of England James I

by John Henry Newman

by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

by Newell Dwight Hillis

by Edward Hoare

by Jacobus Joannes Graaf

by W. (William) Sanday

by Various Authors

by Ettore Ciccotti

by Paul Dupuy

by Felix Fabri

by G. (Gaston) Maspero

by P. L. Jacob

by Cotton Mather, Increase Mather

by Alexandre Dumas

by Jane M. (Jane Marie) Bancroft

by Thomas Jefferson

by Edward Washburn Hopkins

by Bathild Bouniol

by Thomas Ellwood

by M. (Jean Baptiste Honoré Raymond) Capefigue

by Árni Magnússon

by American Anti-Slavery Society

by Mauno Rosendal

by Count Valerian Krasinski