The magnitude of evil perpetrated by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and their brutal totalitarian regimes proved them utterly false messiahs.

Described as the “restorer of religion, savior of the Church, anointed sovereign, living saint,” Napoleon was perhaps one of the most arrogant false messiahs.

The last emperor to be crowned by a pope, Charles V viewed himself as a soldier of God—with Mars and Neptune at his side.

Is The Da Vinci Code based on fact, or are its author’s claims of accuracy the novel’s greatest fiction?

A look at Otto the Great and his role in a reemerging Roman empire, this time in Germany.

A startling archaeological find in Israel last summer is fueling debate about the historicity of the Bible.

Historically, the establishment of an alphabet signals a structured society that has developed complex means of communicating ideas.

The idea that a political regime can confer divinity has remarkable longevity, particularly among historical dictators.

Like many of his predecessors, Roman emperor Constantine the Great used religion to great political advantage.

The Da Vinci Code—love it or hate it—has achieved the status of a phenomenon. Why should a novel generate such a torrent of debate?

British foreign secretary Lord Balfour’s famous letter to the head of the Zionist Federation in Great Britain, Lord Rothschild.

As the central figure in Islam, Muhammad was, according to biographer Maxime Rodinson, “one of the rare men who have turned the world upside down.”

What the world needs now is visionairies, and you could be one of them.

Without question, John Paul II has been one of the most influential leaders of the 20^th century.

What are we to make of the human longing for utopia?

Several recent books address the allegation that God is dead. Does modern philosophy succeed in laying the God of the Bible to rest?

A rare reproduction of a lost oil painting titled The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70 by David Roberts.