BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES 
Barrow, J G. A Bibliography of Bibliographies in Religion. Ann Arbor: Edwards Brothers, 1955. 489 pp.
Besterman, T. A World Bibliography of Bibliographies and of Bibliographical Catalogues, Calendars, Abstracts, Digests, Indexes, and the Like. 4th ed., revised and greatly enlarged. 5 vols. Lausanne: Societas Bibliographica, 1965-66. "Theology" is in vol. 4, pp. 6074-6121.
Bibliographic Index; A Cumulative Bibliography of Bibliographies. New York: Wilson, 1938 to date. Published semiannually with an annual cumulation.
Stewardson, J. L. A Bibliography of Bibliographies on Patristics. Evanston: Garrett Theological Seminary Library, 1967.
Bibliographia Patristica. Internationale patristische Bibliographie. Berlin: Walter deGruyter, 1959 to date (begins with 1956). Annual. Includes English-language books and articles.
Bourke, Vernon J. Thomistic Bibliography, 1920-1940. St. Louis: s.n., 1945.
Bulletin de Théologie Ancienne et Médiévale. Louvain: Abbaye du Mont César, 1929 to date. Quarterly. Includes English language titles.
Case, S.J. et al., comp. A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Christianity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1931. 265 pp.
Chadwick, O. The History of the Church, A Select Bibliography. 2nd ed. London: Historical Association, 1966. 52 pp.
Davidson, Linda K. and Maryjane Dunn-Wood. Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Research Guide. New York: Garland, 1993.
Elenchus Bibliographicus Biblicus. Published in the periodical Biblica from 1920, and published separately beginning with vol. 49 (1968). Mostly deals with biblical studies, but also covers early patristic period.
L'Année Philologique. Vol. 1 (1924)-continuing. Deals with many topics of antiquity, but especially valuable for its listing of Greek and Latin authors, both pagan and patristic.
Revue d'histoire Ecclesiastique. "Bibliographie." Louvain: Universite Catholique de Louvain, 1900 to date. Annual. (The most comprehensive current bibliography of church history.)
Goodspeed, E.J. Index Apologeticus. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandluug, 1912. (A concordance to the Greek Christian apologetic writers).
Goodspeed, E.J. Index Patristicus sive clavis patrum apostolicorum operum.... Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandluug, 1907. (An older concordance to the Apostolic Fathers)
Kraft, H. Clavis Patrum Apostolicorum. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1964. (A useful concordance to the Apostolic Fathers)
Bauer, Walter. A Greek English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Translated by W.F. Arndt and F.W. Gingrich. Revised and Augmented by F.W. Gingrich and F.W. Danker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
Blass, F., and A. Debrunner. A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Translated by R.W. Funk. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Lampe, G.W.H. A Patristic Greek Lexicon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961-68.
Cross, F.L., and E.A. Livingstone, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2nd ed. Oxford: University Press, 1974 (with revisions through 1983).
Douglas, J.D. and E.E. Cairns, eds. The New International Dictionary of the Christian Church. Revised. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1978.
Elwell, W.A., ed. Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1984.
Hammond, N.G.L., and H.H. Scullard, eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Livingstone, E.A., ed. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Richardson, A. and J. Bowden, eds. The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1983.
Wace, H., and W.C. Piercy, eds. A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature. London: Murray, 1911. (A l-vol. abridgement and updating of the 4-vol. Smith and Wace set; see below.)
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. Edited by J. McClintock and J. Strong. 12 vols. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1968-70 reprint. First published 1895.
Dictionary of the Apostolic Church. Edited by J. Hastings. 2 vols. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1916, 1918.
Encyclopaedia Judaica. Edited by C. Roth and G. Wigoder. 16 vols. Jerusalem: Encyclopaedia Judaica, Macmillan, 1971.
Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics. Edited by J. Hastings. 13 vols. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1908-27.
Encyclopedia of Religion. Edited by Mircea Eliade. 16 vols. New York: MacMillan, 1986.
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by P. Edwards. 8 vols. in 4. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Ferguson, Everett, ed. Studies in Early Christianity, 18 vols. New York: Garland, 1993.
New Catholic Encyclopedia. 15 vols. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.
New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Edited by S.M. Jackson. 13 vols. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1908-1912. (Reprint: Grand Rapids: Baker, 1949-1950. 13 vols.)
Smith, W., and S. Cheetham, eds. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities. 2 vols. London: Murray, 1876-80.
Smith, W. and H. Wace, eds. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines. 4 vols. London: Murray, 1877-87.
Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Edited by L. A. Loetscher. 2 vols. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1955. (A supplement to New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.)
HISTORY AND
BACKGROUND OF THE EARLY CHURCH
Littell, F.H. The Macmillan Atlas History of Christianity. New York: Macmillan, 1976.
vanderMeer, F. and C. Mohrmann. Atlas of the Early Christian World. Translated and edited by M.F. Hedlund and H.H. Rowley. London: Nelson, 1966.
Bainton, R.H. Early Christianity. Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1960.
Baus, K. Handbook of Church History, Vol. 1: From the Apostolic Community to Constantine. New York, 1965. (Very good bibliography.)
Brown, Peter. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD 200-1000. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell, 1996.
Bruce, F.F. The Spreading Flame. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1958.
Carpenter, J.E. Phases of Early Christianity. New York: Putnam, 1916.
Carrington, P. The Early Christian Church. 2 vols. Cambridge: University Press, 1957.
Chadwick, H. The Early Church. New York: Penguin, 1967.
Daniélou, J. and H.I. Marrou. The Christian Centuries, Vol. 1: The First Six Hundred Years. London, 1964.
Davies, J.G. The Early Christian Church: A History of Its First Five Centuries. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1965.
deLabriolle, P. History and Literature of Christianity: From Tertullian to Boëthius. London: Routledge, 1978.
deLubac, H. Catholicism. London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1950.
Duchesne, L. The Early History of the Christian Church. English translation in three volumes. London: Murray, 1909-1924.
Ferguson, Everett, ed. Studies in Early Christianity, 18 vols. New York: Garland, 1993.
Fliche, A., and V. Martin, eds. Histoire de l'Eglise, vols. 1-4. Paris: Bloud et Gay, 1934-37. The first two volumes have been translated by E.C. Messenger and published as J. Lebreton and J. Zeiller, The History of the Primitive Church, 4 vols, London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 19421948; and the third as J.R. Palanque (etc.), The Church on the Christian Roman Empire, 2 vols., 1949 1952.
Frank, Isnard Willhelm. A Concise History of the Mediaeval Church. Translated by John Bowden. New York: Continuum, 1995.
Frend, W.H.C. The Early Church. Philadelphia: Fortress, rev. 1982.
Frend, W.H.C. The Rise of Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.
Gonzalez, Justo L. A History of Christian Thought. Vol. 1, From the Beginnings to the Council of Chalcedon, Rev. ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1987.
Grant, R.M. Augustus to Constantine: The Thrust of the Christian Movement into the Roman World. New York: Harper and Row, 1970.
Gwatkin, H.M. Early Church History to A.D. 313. 2 vols. London: Macmillan, 1909.
Harnack, A. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries. Vol. 1 Translated and edited by James Moffat. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962. (12 vol. edition from New York: Putnam, 1908.)
Hazlett, Ian, et al. Early Christianity: Origins and Evolution to A.D. 600. Nashville: Abingdon, 1991.
Hinson, E. Glenn. The Church Triumphant: A History of Christianity up to 1300. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1995.
Jalland, T.G. The Origin and Evolution of the Christian Church. New York: Hutchinson, 1950.
Kidd, B.J. A History of the Church to A.D. 461. 3 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1922.
Lake, K. Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity. London: Macmillan, 1920.
Latourette, K.S. Christianity in a Revolutionary Age. 5 vols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1973.
Latourette, K.S. A History of Christianity. 2 vols. New York: Harper & Row, rev. 1975.
Latourette, K.S. A History of the Expansion of Christianity. 7 vols. New York: Harper, 1937-45.
Lebreton, J., et al. The History of the Primitive Church. New York: Macmillan, 1949.
Lietzmann, H. A History of the Early Church. Translated by B.L. Woolf. 4 vols; 1937-51. Reprinted in 2 vols. Cleveland: World, 1961.
Newman, J.H. The Church of the Fathers. 4th ed. London: Burns, Oates, & Co., 1868.
Petry, R.C., ed. A History of Christianity: Readings in the History of the Early and Medieval Church. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962.
Rainy, R.T. The Ancient Catholic Church. New York: Scribner, 1902.
Schaff, P. History of the Christian Church. 8 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1910.
Smith, M.A. From Christ to Constantine. Downers Grove. IL: InterVarsity Press, . 1971.
Volz, Carl. Faith and Practice in the Early Church. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1983.
Young, Frances. From Nicaea to Chalcedon: A Guide to the Literature and its Background. London: SCM, 1983.
Walker, Williston, Richard A. Norris, David W. Lotz, and Robert T. Handy. A History of the Christian Church. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1985.
Weiss, J. Earliest Christianity: A History of the Period A.D. 30-150. Translated by F.C. Grant. Vol. 1. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959.
Angus, S. The Mystery-Religions and Christianity. London: Murray,
Bruce, F.F. Jesus and Christian Origins Outside the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974.
Cochrane, C.N. Christianity and Classical Culture: A Study of Thought and Action from Augustus to Augustine. London: Oxford University Press, 1944.
Deissmann, A. Light from the Ancient East. Translated by L.R. Strachan. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910.
Geffcken, J. The Last Days of Greco-Roman Paganism. Translated by S. MacCormack. New York: North-Holland, 1978.
Glover, T.R. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire. London: Methuen, 1909.
Habermas, G.R. The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ. Joplin, MO: College, 1996.
Hamilton, E. The Greek Way. New York: Norton, 1958.
Jeremias, J. Unknown Sayings of Jesus. London: SPCK, 1958.
Meeks, Wayne, ed. Library of Early Christianity. 12 vols. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1989.
Momigliano, A. The Conflict Between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963.
Robinson, J.A.T. Redating the New Testament. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1976.
Bainton, R.H. Christian Attitudes to War and Peace. Nashville: Abingdon, 1960.
Bouyer, L. The Spirituality of the New Testament and the Fathers. London: Burns, 1963.
Cadoux, C.J. The Early Christian Attitude to War. New York: Seabury, 1982 edition of 1919 original.
Cadoux, C.J. The Early Church and the World. Edinburgh: Clark, 1925.
Clark, Elizabeth A. Women in the Early Church. Collegville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1983.
Cunningham, A., ed. The Early Church and the State. Texts translated by M. Di Maio and A. Cunningham. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982.
Forell, G.W. History of Christian Ethics. Vol. 1: From the New Testament to Augustine. Minneapolis. Augsburg, 1979.
Heine, Susanne. Women and Early Christianity: A Reappraisal. Translated by John Bowden. Minneapolis: Augusburg, 1987.
Jeffers, James S. Conflict at Rome: Social Order and Hierarchy in Early Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.
Kee, H.C. Christian Origins in Sociological Perspective. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1980.
Meeks, Wayne A. Library of Early Christianity. Vol. 4, Moral Exhortation, A Greco-Roman Sourcebook, by Abraham J. Malherbe. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986.
Meeks, Wayne A. Library of Early Christianity. Vol. 6, The Moral World of the First Christians, by Wayne A. Meeks. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986.
Murphy, F.X. Moral Teaching in the Primitive Church. Glen Rock, NJ: Paulist, 1968.
Spence-Jones, H.D.M. The Early Christians in Rome. New York: John Lane, 1911.
Troeltsch, E. The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches. 2 vols. Translated by O. Wyon. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1931. (Vol. 1, pp. 89-200, contain a helpful study of early Christian social ethics.)
vonDobschutz, E. Christian Life in the Primitive Church. Translated by G. Bremner; edited by W.D. Morrison. London: Williams and Norgate, 1904.
Wilken, R.L. The Christians as the Romans Saw Them. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.
Granfield, L.H. The Early Persecutions of the Christians. New York, 1913.
Frend, W.H.C. Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church: A Study of a Conflict from the Maccabees to Donatus. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967.
Grant, R.M. The Sword and the Cross. New York: Macmillan, 1955.
King, M.G., ed. Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Old Tappan, NJ: Revell,
Smith, M.A. The Church Under Siege. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1976.
Workman, H.B. Persecution in the Early Church.
New York: Abingdon, 1960 reprint.
Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina. Many vols. Brepols, 1954-continuing. Abbreviated CCSL. (This and CSEL are the two most important collections of Latin patristic texts.)
Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum. Many vols. Vienna 1866-continuing. Abbreviated CSEL. (This and CCSL are the two most important collections of Latin patristic texts.)
Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte. Many vols. Berlin, 1897-continuing. Abbreviated GCS. (The most important collection of Greek patristic texts.)
Migne, J.P., ed. Patrologiae Cursus Completus; Series Graeca. 161 vols. Paris, 1857-66. Abbreviated PG, MG or MPG. (The most complete, but uncritical, collection of Greek texts.)
Migne, J.P., ed. Patrologiae Cursus Completus; Series Latinae. 221 vols. Paris, 1844-55. Abbreviated PL, ML, or MPL. (The most complete, but uncritical, collection of Latin texts.)
Sources Chrétiennes. With French Translation. Over 160 vols to date. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1941-continuing. Abbreviated SC. (Very important series of both Greek and Latin patristic texts.)
Original Language with English Translation
Chadwick, H., ed. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Multiple vols. Oxford: University Press, 1970-continuing. (Greek and Latin texts.)
Glover, R.T., trans. Tertullian: Apology, De spectaculis. Rendall, G.H., trans. Minucius Felix. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960.
Holmes, Michael W., ed. and rev. The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations of their Writings. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992.
Lake, K., trans. and ed. The Apostolic Fathers with an English Translation. 2 vols. Loeb Classical Library 24,25. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1912-13.
Lake, K., J.E.L. Oulton, and H.J. Lawlor, trans. and eds. Eusebius, The Ecclesiastical History with an English Translation. 2 vols. The Loeb Classical Library, 153, 265. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926, 1932.
Lightfoot, J.B., trans. and ed. The Apostolic Fathers. 5 vols. London, 1889-1890. (One vol. edition, edited and completed by J.R. Harmer, London, 1893, and reprinted by Baker, 1956
Loeb Classical Library. Edited by T.E. Page, E. Capps, and W.H.D. Rouse. Approx. 450 vols. London: Heinemann, 1912-49. Also from Harvard University Press. A number of the volumes contain patristic texts with English translations.
Musurillo, H. The Acts of the Christian Martyrs: Introduction, Texts, and Translations. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. (Greek and Latin texts.)
Tacitus, Cornelius. The Histories, with English trans. by C.H. Moore. (Loeb Classical Library) 4 vols. New York: Putnam's Sons, 1925-37.
Baillie, J., NcNeill, J.T., and vanDusen, H.P., eds. Library of Christian Classics. Vols. 1, 2, and 5. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1953, 1954, and 1956. (26 vols. in set)
The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation. Over 70 vols. thus far. Washington: Catholic University of America, 1947-continuing. (Less technical than the Ancient Christian Writers series.)
Grant, R.M. The Apostolic Fathers: A New Translation and Commentary. 6 vols. Camden, NJ: Nelson & Sons, 1964-68.
Pusey, E.B., J.H. Newman, J. Keble, and C. Marriott, eds. Library of the Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church. 50 vols. Oxford: Parker, 1838-85.
Quasten, J., and J.C. Plumpe, eds. Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation. Over 40 vols. thus far. Westminster, MD: Newman, 1946-continuing. These are possibly the best English translations and introductions available.
Roberts. A and Donaldson, J., eds. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325. American edition, edited by A.C. Coxe, 1896 ff. 10 vols. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1952.
Schaff, P., ed. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church. First series. 14 vols. New York: Christian Literature Co., 1887-94.
Schaff, P. and H. Wace, eds. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church. Second Series. 14 vols. New York: Christian Literature Co., 1890-1900.
Arnold, E. The Early Christians. Translated and edited by the Society of Brothers at Rifton, New York. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1972. Originally published in 1926.
Ayer, J.C. A Source Book for Ancient Church History. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1913.
Barker, E. From Alexander to Constantine: Passages and Documents Illustrating the History of Social and Political Ideas 336 B.C.-A.D. 337. Translated with Introductions, Notes, and Essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
Bettenson, H., ed. Documents of the Christian Church. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963.
Bettenson, H., ed. and trans. The Early Christian Fathers. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Bettenson, H., ed. and trans. The Later Christian Fathers. Corrected edition. London: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Chadwick, H. and Oulton, J.E.L., eds. Alexandrian Christianity. The Library of Christian Classics, vol. 2. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1954.
Fremantle, A., ed. A Treasury of Early Christianity. New York: Viking, 1953.
Goodspeed, E.J., trans. The Apostolic Fathers: An American Translation. London: Independent Press, 1950.
Grant, R.M., ed. Second-Century Christianity: A Collection of Fragments. London: SPCK, 1957.
Greenslade, S.L., ed. Early Latin Theology. The Library of Christian Classics, vol. 5. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1956.
Halton, Thomas, ed. Messages of the Fathers of the Church. Wilmington, Del: Michael Glazer, 1983.
Jurgens, W.A. The Faith of the Early Fathers: A Source-Book.... Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1970.
Kidd, Beresford J., ed. Documents Illustrative of the History of the Church. 3 vols. London: SPCK, 1920-41.
Nicholson, D.B. Private Letters, Pagan and Christian. London: Benn, 1929.
Nicholson, H., ed. Hymns Ancient and Modern. London: Clowes & Sons, 1932.
Nunn, Henry P.V. Christian Inscriptions. New York: Macmillan, 1920.
Owen, E.C.E., trans. Some Authentic Acts of the Early Martyrs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927.
Richardson, C.C., ed. Early Christian Fathers. The Library of Christian Classics, vol. 1. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1953.
Robinson, J.A., ed. Texts and Studies: Contributions to Biblical and Patristic Literature. 9 vols. Cambridge: University Press, 1891-1909.
Staniforth, M. trans. Early Christian Writings. The Apostolic Fathers. New York: Penguin, 1968.
Stevenson, J., ed. A New Eusebius: Documents Illustrative of the History of the Church to A.D. 337. London: SPCK, 1968.
Terry, M.S., trans. The Sibylline Oracles. 2nd ed. New York, 1899.
Wright, F., trans. Fathers of the Church. New York: Dutton, 1929.
Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphical
Writings
Charles, R.H. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. 2 vols. Oxford: University Press, 1913.
Hennecke, E.N. New Testament Apocrypha. English translation edited by R.McL. Wilson. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1963 and 1965.
James, M.R., trans. The Apocryphal New Testament: Being the Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypses. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953.
Platt, R.H., Jr., ed. The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden. Cleveland: Collins World, 1974 reprint of 1926 and 1927 editions.
Grant, R.M., ed. Gnosticism: A Source Book of Heretical Writings from the Early Christian Period. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961.
Guillaumont, A., H. Puech, G. Quispel, W. Till, and Yassah 'Abd A1 Masih, trans. and eds. The Gospel according to Thomas. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959.
Haardt, R. Gnosis: Character and Testimony. Translated by J.F. Hendry, Leiden: Brill, 1971.
Robinson, J.M., gen. ed. The Nag Hammadi Library in English. Translated and introduced by members of the Coptic Gnostic Library Project for Antiquity. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1990.
Cruse, C.F., trans. and intro. The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius Pamphilus. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1955 reprint. First published 1850.
Lawlor, H.J., and J.E.L. Oulton, trans. and eds. Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea. The Ecclesiastical History and the Martyrs of Palestine. 2 vols. London: SPCK, 1927-28.
Williamson, G.A., trans. Eusebius: The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1965.
Aquinas, Thomas. The Summa Theologica of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Privince. Revised by Daniel J. Sullivan. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 1952.
Ashley, Benedict M., ed. Thomas Aquinas -- The Gifts of the Spirit: Selected Spiritual Writings (Chiefly from his Biblical Commentaries). Translated by Matthew Rzeczkowski. Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 1995.
Jordan, Mark D., trans. and intro. On Faith: Summa Theologiae 2-2, qq 1-16 of St. Thomas Aquinas. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990.
Oesterle, Jean, trans. On Evil. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995.
Bonner, C., ed. The Homily on the Passion by Melito, Bishop of Sardis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940.
Chadwick, H., trans. and ed. Origen: Contra Celsum. Cambridge: University Press, 1965.
Dionysius the Areopagite. On the Divine Names and the Mystical Theology. Translated by E. Rolt. London: SPCK, 1940.
Easton, B.S., trans. and ed. The Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus. Cambridge: University Press, 1934. Reprint, USA: Archon Books, 1962.
Martyr, Justin. The Dialogue with Trypho. Trans. by A.L. Williams. (In Translations of Christian Literature, Series I.) New York: Macmillan, 1930.
Robinson, J.A. and Ann, trans. St. Irenaeus: The Demonstration of the Apostolic Teaching. London: SPCK, 1920.
Smith, J.P. and Ann, trans. St. Irenaeus: Proof
of the Apostolic Preaching. Westminster, MD: Newman, 1952.
PATROLOGY AND PATRISTIC
DOCTRINE
Altaner, B. Patrology. Translated by H.C. Graef. 2nd ed. New York: Herder and Herder, 1961.
Bardenhewer, O. Patrology: The Lives and Works of the Fathers of the Church. St. Louis: Herder, 1908.
Berkhof, L. The History of Christian Doctrines. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1937.
Bethune-Baker, J.F. An Introduction to the Early History of Christian Doctrine to the Time of the Council of Chalcedon. London: Methuen, 1903 and subsequent revisions.
Bromiley, G.W. Historical Theology: An Introduction. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978.
Burkill, T.A. The Evolution of Christian Thought. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971.
Campbell, Ted A. John Wesley and Christian Antiquity: Religious Vision and Cultural Change. Nashville: Abingdon, 1991.
Cross, F.L. The Early Christian Fathers. London: Duckworth, 1960.
Cunliffe-Jones, H., ed., assisted by B. Drewery. A History of Christian Doctrine. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978. G.W.H. Lampe contributes 160 pages on the Patristic era.
Ferguson, Everett. Studies in Early Christianity. Vol. 10, Doctrines of Human Nature, Sin, and Salvation in the Early Church. New York: Garland, 1993.
Gonzalez, J.L. A History of Christian Thought. Vols. 1-2. Rev. ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1987.
Goodspeed, E.J. A History of Early Christian Literature. Revised and enlarged by R.M. Grant. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1966.
Hall, Stuart. Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.
Hazlett, Ian, et al. Early Christianity: Origins and Evolution to A.D. 600. Nashville: Abingdon, 1991.
Harnack, A. History of Dogma. 7 vols. London: Williams and Norgate, 1894-1899.
Harnack, A. Outlines of the History of Dogma. Boston: Beacon, 1957.
Kelly, J.N.D. Early Christian Doctrines. 5th ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
Kruger, G. History of Early Christian Literature in the First Three Centuries. Translated by C.R. Gillet. New York, 1897.
Lohse, B. A Short History of Christian Doctrine. Translated by F.E. Stoeffler. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1966.
McGiffert, A. A History of Christian Thought. 2 vols. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1932-33.
Orr, J. Progress of Dogma. Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, n.d. (Preface, 1901).
Pelikan, J. The Christian Tradition. A History of the Development of Doctrine. Vol. 1. The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600). Chicago: University of Chicago, 1971. Very difficult reading.
Quasten, J. Patrology. 4 vols. Utrecht-Antwerp: Spectrum, 1950.
Seeberg, R. Text-Book of the History of Doctrines. Translated by C.E. Hay. 2 vols. in 1. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1977 reprint.
Tixeront, J., trans. A Handbook of Patrology. Trans. based on 4th French ed. by S.A. Raemers. St. Louis: Herder, 1947.
Volz, Carl. Faith and Practice in the Early Church. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1983.
Wolfson, H.A. The Philosophy of the Church Fathers. 3rd edition Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Orthodoxy, Heresy, and their Development
Bauer, W. Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971.
Brown, H.O.J. Heresies. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984.
DeSoyres, J. Montanism and the Primitive Church: A Study in the Ecclesiastical History of the Second Century. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1878. Reprint, Lexington, KY: American Theological Library Association, 1965.
Greenslade, S.L. Schism in the Early Church. London: SCM, 1953.
Gregg, R.C. Early Arianism-A View of Salvation. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981.
Haykin, Michael A.G. The Spirit of God: The Exegesis of 1 and 2 Corinthians in the Pneumatomachian Controversy of the Fourth Century. Leiden, NY: Brill, 1994.
Jonas, H. The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity. 2d. ed., revised. Boston: Beacon, 1963.
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GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
INFORMATION
The following information is intended to assist you as you begin your study of the topic. I have attempted to direct you to where the most resources are found in the Bethel Seminary Library. Please note that this is a start only; there are many other helpful resources available.
016.28 Bibliographies
270-271 Church History (e.g., Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, Encyclopedia of Early Christianity)
281.1-281.4 Primary Texts (e.g., 38 volume set of ANF, NPNF first series, and NPNF Second series)
282 New Catholic Encyclopedia
230.09 History of Christian Theology
230.19 Orthodox Theology
270-271 Church History
281 Early Church
Journals (* indicates
most helpful)
Byzantion (some articles in English)
Church History
Greek Orthodox Theological Review
* Journal of Early Christian Studies
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Medieval Studies
St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly
Studia Patristica et Liturgica (at St. John's, Collegeville)
* Vigilae Christianae
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