Past issues by the numbers

How many issues have we published on….?


[E C] The early church: 15 

[MID] The Middle Ages: 18 

[REF] The Reformation: 15 

[17+] The seventeenth-nineteenth centuries: 41 

[20c] The twentieth century: 17 

[MUL] Multiple eras: 40


[17+] 1 – Zinzendorf and the Moravians 

[17+] 2 – John Wesley 

[MID] 3 – John Wycliffe and the 600th Anniversary of English Bible Translation 

[REF] 4 – Zwingli: Father of the Swiss Reformation 

[REF] 5 – Radical Reformation: The Anabaptists 

[17+] 6 – Baptists

[20c] 7 – C. S. Lewis

[17+] 8 – Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening

[MUL] 9 – Heritage of Freedom: Dissenters, Reformers, and Pioneers

[17+] 10 – Pietism

[17+] 11 – John Bunyan and Pilgrim’s Progress

[REF] 12 – John Calvin 

[17+] 13 – Jan Amos Comenius

[MUL] 14 – Money in Christian History: Part 1

[E C] 15 – Augustine

[REF] 16 – William Tyndale

[E C] 17 – Women in the Early Church 

[MUL] 18 –The Millennium of “Russian” Christianity

[MUL] 19 – Money in Christian History: Part 2

[17+] 20 – Charles Grandison Finney

[REF] 21 – Caspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig

[MID] 22 – The Waldensians

[MUL] 23 – Spiritual Awakenings in North America

[MID] 24 – Bernard of Clairvaux

[17+] 25 – The Unconventional Dwight L. Moody

[17+] 26 – William & Catherine Booth

[E C] 27 – Persecution in the Early Church

[MUL] 28 – 100 Most Important Events in Church History 

[17+] 29 – Charles Spurgeon

[MID] 30 – Women in the Medieval Church 

[17+ ] 31 – The Golden Age of Hymns

[20c] 32 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[17+] 33 – Christianity & the Civil War 

[REF] 34 – Martin Luther: The Early Years

[MID] 35 – Christopher Columbus

[17+] 36 – William Carey and the Great Missions Century

[E C] 37 – Worship in the Early Church 

[17+] 38 – George Whitefield

[REF] 39 – Martin Luther: The Later Years and Legacy

[MID] 40 – The Crusades

[17+] 41 – The American Puritans

[MID] 42 – Francis of Assisi

[MUL] 43 – How We Got Our Bible

[E C] 44 – John Chrysostom

[17+] 45 – Camp Meetings & Circuit Riders

[REF] 46 – John Knox

[E C] 47 – Paul & His Times

[REF] 48 – Thomas Cranmer & the English Reformation 

[MID] 49 – Everyday Faith in the Middle Ages

[17+] 50 – Faith in the American Revolution

[E C] 51 – Heresy in the Early Church

[17+] 52 – Hudson Taylor & Missions to China

[17+] 53 – William Wilberforce and the Century of Reform

[MUL] 54 – Eastern Orthodoxy

[20c] 55 – The Monkey Trial & the Rise of Fundamentalism

[17+] 56 – The Paradox of David Livingstone

[E C] 57 – Converting the Empire

[20c] 58 – The Rise of Pentecostalism

[E C] 59 – The Life & Times of Jesus of Nazareth

[MID] 60 – How the Irish Were Saved

[MUL] 61 – The End: A History of the Second Coming

[17+] 62 – Bound for Canaan: Africans in America

[MID] 63 – Severe Salvation: The Vikings

[E C] 64 – St. Antony & the Desert Fathers

[20c] 65 – Ten Most Influential Christians of the 20th Century

[17+] 66 – How the West Was Really Won

[E C] 67 – Augustine

[MID] 68 – Jan Hus

[17+] 69 – Charles and John Wesley

[MID] 70 – Dante’s Guide to Heaven and Hell

[17+] 71 – Huguenots and the Wars of Religion

[MUL] 72 – How We Got Our History

[MID] 73 – Thomas Aquinas

[MUL] 74 – Christians & Muslims

[20c] 75 – G. K. Chesterton

[17+] 76 – The Christian Face of the Scientific Revolution

[17+] 77 – Jonathan Edwards

[20c] 78 – J. R. R. Tolkien

[20c] 79 – African Apostles: Black Evangelists in Africa

[E C] 80 – The First Bible Teachers

[17+] 81 – John Newton

[17+] 82 – Phoebe Palmer

[MUL] 83 – Mary in the Imagination of the Church

[17+] 84 – Pilgrims & Exiles: Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren

[E C] 85 – The Council of Nicaea

[17+] 86 – George MacDonald

[MUL] 87– India: A Faith of Many Colors

[20c] 88 – C. S. Lewis

[17+] 89 – Richard Baxter & the English Puritans

[17+] 90 – Adoniram & Ann Judson 

[REF] 91 – Michelangelo

[20c] 92 – A New Evangelical Awakening

[MID] 93 – A Devoted Life: St. Benedict & Western Monasticism

[MUL] 94 – Building the City of God in a Crumbling World

[17+] 95 – The Gospel According to J. S. Bach

[E C] 96 – Hunger for Secret Knowledge: The Gnostics

[MUL] 97 – The Holy Land

[20c] 98 – How the Church in China Survived and Thrived in the 20th Century

[MUL] 99 – Faith & the American Presidency

[MUL] 100 – 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible

[MUL] Pocket Guide – The History of Hell

[MUL] 101 – Healthcare and Hospitals in the Mission of the Church

[MUL] 102 – American Christianity: People of Faith

Pocket Guide – The History of Worship from Constantine to the Reformation

[MUL] 103 – Christmas: Wonder of the Season

[17+] 104 – Christians in the New Industrial Economy

[E C] 105 – Christianity in Early Africa

[17+] 106 – The Stone-Campbell Movement

[17+] 107 – Debating Darwin

[MID] 108 – Charlemagne

[20c] 109 – Eyewitnesses to the Modern Age of Persecution

[MUL] 110 – Calling and Vocation 

[20c] 111 – Billy Graham

[MUL] 112 – Heaven in the Christian Imagination

[MUL] 113 – Seven Literary Sages

[17+] 114 – Francis Asbury: Pioneer of Methodism

[REF] 115 – Luther Leads the Way

[MUL] 116 – 25 Writings That Changed the Church and the World

[17+] 117 – The Surprising Quakers

[REF] 118 – The People’s Reformation

[MUL] 119 – The Wonder of Creation

[REF] 120 – Calvin, Councils, and Confessions

[20c] 121 – World War I and World War II: Faith in the Foxholes

[REF] 122 – The Catholic Reformation 

[MUL] 123 – Captive Faith: Christians and Prisons

[E C] 124 – Faith in the City 

[MUL] 125 – Food and Faith

[MUL] 126 – Baptists 

[MID] 127 – Medieval Lay Mystics

[17+] 128 – George Müller, the Brethren and Faith Missions

[20c] 129 – Recovery from Modern Amnesia

[MUL] 130 – Latin American Christianity

[REF] 131 – Women of the Reformation

[MUL] 132 – Spiritual Friendship

[MUL] 133 – Christianity and Judaism

[MUL] 134 – How the Church Fostered Science and Technology

[MUL] 135 – Plagues and Epidemics

[20c] 136 – E. Stanley Jones

[MUL] 137 – When the Church Goes to Market

[MUL] 138 – Bible in America Part 1: Nation

[MUL] 139 – Hallowed Halls: The Christian Story of the University

[20c] 140 – Jack at Home: C. S. Lewis and Those Who Knew Him Best

[MUL] 141 – City of Man: Christian Civic Engagement

[MUL] 142 – Divine Healing

[MUL] 143 – Bible in America Part 2: Church

[MUL] 144 – Christian History in Images




How many times has CH talked about the following themes? 

Yes, we counted some issues twice. See if you agree!


A single person: 57 times

A movement or denomination: 40 times

A specific topic or specific era: 55 times

A book or books besides the Bible: 3 times (Pilgrim’s Progress, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and our “25 writings” issue)




Who or what are our top cover subjects?


6 times: The Bible (6, 43, 80, 100, 138, 143)

4 times: C. S. Lewis (7, 88, 113, 140)

3 times: Martin Luther (34, 39, 115),

money and economics (14, 19, 137) 

2 times: Augustine (15, 67), the Baptist movement (6, 126), John Calvin (20, 120), Jonathan Edwards (8, 77), the Puritans (41, 89), Christians in science (76, 134),

John Wesley (2, 69)  CH 

By The editors

[Christian History originally published this article in Christian History Issue #144 in 2022]

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