GENERAL
Cross, F.L. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.
Gonzales, Justo. The Story of Christianity. 2 vols.
Houghton, S.M. Sketches from Church History.
Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A History of Christianity.
Schaff, Philip. History of the Christian Church. 8 vols.
HISTORICAL THEOLOGY
Beeke, Joel. The Quest For Full Assurance: The Legacy of Calvin and His Successors.
Berkhof, Louis. The History of Christian Doctrines.
Brown, Harold O. J. Heresies: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church.
Cunningham, William. Historical Theology.
Hanson, R. P. C. Tradition in the Early Church.
Kelly, J.N.D. Early Christian Doctrines.
Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine 5 vols.
ANCIENT CHURCH
Bettenson, Henry. Documents of the Christian Church. 2nd ed.
Chadwick, Henry. The Early Church.
Davis, Leo Donald. The First Seven Ecumenical Councils: Their History and Theology.
Eusebius. The History of the Church.
Frend, W.H.C. The Rise of Christianity.
Patrick, Theodore. Traditional Egyptian Christianity: A History of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Quasten, Johannes. Patrology. 4 vols.
Schaff, Philip and Alexander Roberts. The Early Church Fathers. 38 volumes.
THE BYZANTINE EAST
Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium. 3 Vols.
Ostrogorsky, George. History of the Byzantine State.
Papadakis, Aristeides. The Christian East and the Rise of the Papacy: The Church 1071-1453 A.D.
Runciman, Steven. The Eastern Schism: A Study of the Papacy and the Eastern Churches During the Eleventh and Twelvth Centuries.
Runciman, Steven. The Fall of Constantinople: 1453.
MEDIEVAL CHURCH
Bede. Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Burns, J.H. and Thomas Izbicki, eds. Conciliarism and Papalism: Cambridge Texts in Political Thought.
Copleston, Frederick. A History of Medieval Philosophy.
Knowles, D. The Evolution of Medieval Thought.
Markus, Robert. The End of Ancient Christianity.
McGrath, Alister. The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation.
Meyendorff, John. Imperial Unity and Christian Divisions: The Church, 450-680 A.D.
Oberman, Heiko. The Harvest of Medieval Theology.
Pieper, J. Scholasticism.
Runciman, Steven. A History of the Crusades.
Southern, R.W. Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages.
Tierney, Brian. Origins of Papal Infallibility 1150-1350.
Volz, Carl L. The Medieval Church.
REFORMATION
Bainton, Roland. The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century.
Cameron, Euan. The European Reformation.
Chadwick, Owen. The Reformation.
Cochrane, Arthur C., ed. Reformed Confessions of the Sixteenth Century.
Elwood, Christopher. The Body Broken: The Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth-Century France.
Kelly, Douglas. The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World.
Lohse, Bernhard. Martin Luther’s Theology: Its Historical and Systematic Development.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. The Reformation.
McGrath, Alister. Reformation Thought.
McNeill, J.T. The History and Character of Calvinism.
Noll, Mark. Confessions and Catechisms of the Reformation.
Ozment, Steven. The Age of Reform 1250-1550.
Thompson, Bard. Humanists and Reformers: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation.
Wendel, Francois. Calvin: Origins and Development of His Religious Thought.
17th CENTURY ENGLAND, NEW ENGLAND & PURITANISM
Hill, Christopher. Century of Revolution, 1607–1714.
Hill, Christopher. The English Bible and the Seventeenth Century Revolution.
Holifield, E. Brooks. The Covenant Sealed: The Development of Puritan Sacramental Theology 1570–1720.
Miller, Perry. The New England Mind. 2 vols.
Prall, Stuart E. Church and State in Tudor and Stuart England.
Ryken, Leland. Worldly Saints.
ENLIGHTENMENT & MODERNISM
Cragg, Gerald. The Church and the Age of Reason.
Hazard, Paul. The European Mind.
Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment, An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism.
Placher, William. The Domestication of Transcendence.
Popkin, R.H. The History of Skepticism.
AGE OF REVOLUTION AND REVIVAL (18TH CENTURY)
Heimert, A. and Miller, P. The Great Awakening.
Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity.
Hatch, Nathan O. The Sacred Cause of Liberty.
Hughes, Richard T. and Leonard Allen. Illusions of Innocence: Protestant Primitivism in America, 1630–1875.
McManners, J. The French Revolution and the Church.
Murray, Iain. Revival and Revivalism.
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Bozeman, Theodore D. Protestants in an Age of Science: The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought
Chadwick, Owen. The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century.
Sandeen, Ernest R. The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millennarianism, 1800–1930.
Vidler, Alec. The Church in an Age of Revolution.
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Machen, J. Gresham. Christianity and Liberalism.
Marsden, George. Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth Century Evangelicalism 1870-1925.
Murray, Iain. Evangelicalism Divided.
North, Gary. Crossed Fingers: How the Liberals Captured the Presbyterian Church.
AMERICAN CHURCH HISTORY
Holifield, E. Brooks. Theology in America: Christian Thought From the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War.
Noll, Mark. America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln.
Noll, Mark. The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity. |