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Church History

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.