Historical Theology for Beginners

Basic Surveys

 

Hart, David Bentley. The Story of Christianity: An Illustrated 2000 Years of the Christian Faith. London: Quercus, 2007.

 

Lane, Anthony N. S. A Concise History of Christian Thought. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.

 

Noll, Mark. Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997.

 

 

In-Depth Surveys

 

Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Christian Tradition. 5 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971–89.

 

Seeberg, Reinhold. Textbook of the History of Doctrines. 2 vols. in 1. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1977.

 

 

Specific Studies

 

Bagchi, David, and David C. Steinmetz, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

 

Brown, Peter. Augustine of Hippo. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. 

 

Grenz, Stanley J., and Roger Olson. Twentieth-Century Theology: God and the World in a Transitional Age. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1992.

 

Nichols, Aidan. Discovering Aquinas: An Introduction to His Life, Work, and Influence. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.

 

 

Primary Source Theology

 

Bonaventura. Journey of the Mind into God.  (medieval)

 

Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion.  (Reformation)

 

John of Damascus. An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith.  (patristic)

 

Origen. On First Principles.  (patristic)

 

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D. E. The Christian Faith.  (modern)

 

Thomas Aquinas. Summa theologiae.  (medieval)

Church History Secondary Sources:

An (English Language) Bibliography compiled by Dr. K. Stanglin

 

I.                General Surveys and Methodology:

 

Benedetto, Robert, ed. The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Volume 1: The Early, Medieval, and Reformation Eras. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.

 

Bradley, James E., and Richard A. Muller. Church History: An Introduction to Research, Reference Works, and Methods. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.

 

Brown, Colin, Alan Padgett, and Steve Wilkens. Christianity and Western Thought: A History of Philosophers, Ideas, and Movements. 3 vols. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1990–2009.

 

The Cambridge History of Christianity. 9 vols. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2005–09.

 

Ferguson, Everett. Church History, Volume One: From Christ to Pre-Reformation. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005.

 

Hannah, John D. Charts of Ancient and Medieval Church History. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001.

 

Harnack, Adolf von. History of Dogma. 7 vols. in 4. Trans. Neil Buchanan. New York: Dover Publications, 1961.

 

Hart, David Bentley. The Story of Christianity: An Illustrated 2000 Years of the Christian Faith. London: Quercus, 2007.

 

Jedin, Hubert, and John Dolan. History of the Church. New York: Crossroad, 1965–81.

 

Keen, Ralph. The Christian Tradition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004.

 

Kelly, J. N. D. The Oxford Dictionary of Popes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

 

Lane, Anthony N. S. A Concise History of Christian Thought. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.

 

Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A History of the Expansion of Christianity. 7 vols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1970.

 

McGinn, Bernard. The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism. 4 vols. New York: Crossroad, 2004–08.

 

McGinn, Bernard, et al., eds. Christian Spirituality. 3 vols. New York: Crossroad, 1985–1991.

 

Noll, Mark. Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997.

 

Norris, Herbert. Church Vestments: Their Origin and Development. 1950; reprint, Mineola, NY: Dover, 2002.

 

Pelikan, Jaroslav J. The Christian Tradition. 5 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971–89.

 

             and Valerie R. Hotchkiss, eds. Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition. 4 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

 

Placher, William C. A History of Christian Theology: An Introduction. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1983.

 

Price, Matthew A., and Michael Collins. The Story of Christianity. Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, 1999.

 

Schaff, Philip. The Creeds of Christendom, 3 vols. Available at www.ccel.org 

 

            . History of the Christian Church. 8 vols. 3rd ed., rev. New York: Scribners, 1907–10; repr., Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1976.

 

Seeberg, Reinhold. Textbook of the History of Doctrines. 2 vols. in 1. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1977.

 

Thompson, John L. Reading the Bible with the Dead: What You Can Learn from the History of Exegesis that you Can’t Learn from Exegesis Alone. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.

 

Vidmar, John. The Catholic Church through the Ages: A History. New York: Paulist Press, 2005.

 

Wainwright, Geoffrey, and Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, eds. The Oxford History of Christian Worship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

 

Walker, Williston, et al. A History of the Christian Church. 4th ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1985.

 

Ware, Timothy (Kallistos). The Orthodox Church. New edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993.

 

II.          Early:

 

Bauer, Walter. Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971.

 

Baus, Karl. From the Apostolic Community to Constantine. Handbook of Church History 1. New York: Herder and Herder, 1965.

 

Bock, Darrell L. The Missing Gospels: Unearthing the Truth behind Alternative Christianities. Nashville: Nelson, 2006.

 

Brown, Peter. Augustine of Hippo. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

 

Brown, Raymond E. The Churches the Apostles Left Behind. New York: Paulist Press, 1984.

 

Burn, A. E. The Council of Nicaea: A Memorial for Its Sixteenth Centenary. London: SPCK, 1925.

 

Crouzel, Henri. Origen. Trans. A. S. Worrall. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1989.

 

Davis, Leo Donald. The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325–787): Their History and Theology. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1990.

 

Donovan, Mary Ann. One Right Reading? A Guide to Irenaeus. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1997.

 

Dunn, James D. G., ed. Jews and Christians: The Parting of the Ways, A.D. 70 to 135. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

 

Dünzl, Franz. A Brief History of the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Early Church. New York: T and T Clark, 2007.

 

Edwards, Mark Julian. Origen against Plato. Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2002.

 

Elsner, Jas, and Ian Rutherford, eds. Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

 

Ferguson, Everett. Backgrounds of Early Christianity. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.

 

            . Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.

 

            , et al., eds. Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1997.

 

            . Recent Studies in Early Christianity: A Collection of Scholarly Essays. 6 vols. New York: Garland, 1999.

 

            . Studies in Early Christianity. 18 vols. New York: Garland, 1993.

 

Frend, W. H. C. The Early Church. 3rd ed. London: SCM Press, 1991.

 

            . The Rise of Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984.

 

Froelich, Karlfried, ed. Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church. Sources of Early Christian Thought. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984.

 

Gavrilyuk, Paul. The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

 

Grant, Robert M. Augustus to Constantine: The Rise and Triumph of Christianity in the Roman World. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1990.

 

            . Gods and the One God. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986.

 

            . Greek Apologists of the Second Century. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1988.

 

            . Heresy and Criticism: The Search for Authenticity in Early Christian Literature. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

 

            . Irenaeus of Lyons. The Early Church Fathers. New York: Routledge, 1997.

 

Green, Michael. Evangelism in the Early Church. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.

 

Greer, Rowan A. Broken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986.

 

Grillmeier, A. Christ in Christian Tradition, Volume One: From the Apostolic Age to Chalcedon (451). 2nd ed. Trans. John Bowden. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1975.

 

Guy, Laurie. Introducing Early Christianity: A Topical Survey of Its Life, Beliefs, and Practices. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2004.

 

Hall, Christopher A. Learning Theology with the Church Fathers. Downers Grove: IVP, 2002.

 

Hanson, R. P. C. The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God: The Arian Controversy, 318–81. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1988.

 

Hinson, E. Glenn. The Early Church: Origins to the Dawn of the Middle Ages. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.

 

Horsley, Richard A. Christian Origins. A People’s History of Christianity, vol. 1. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005.

 

Jefford, Clayton N. The Apostolic Fathers: An Essential Guide. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005.

 

Kelly, J. N. D. Early Christian Creeds. New York: Harper and Row, 1950.

 

            . Early Christian Doctrines. Rev. ed. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1978.

 

            . Golden Mouth: The Story of John Chrysostom—Ascetic, Preacher, Bishop. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995.

 

King, Karen L. What Is Gnosticism? Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2003.

 

Logan, Alastair H. B. The Gnostics: Identifying an Early Christian Cult. New York: T and T Clark, 2006.

 

McGiffert, A. C. A History of Christian Thought, Volume 1: Early and Eastern, from Jesus to John of Damascus. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932.

 

Meeks, Wayne A. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

 

Metzger, Bruce M. The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987.

 

Mitchell, Margaret M. and Frances M. Young, eds. The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 1: Origins to Constantine. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

 

Need, Stephen W. Truly Divine and Truly Human: The Story of Christ and the Seven Ecumenical Councils. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2008.

 

Norris, Richard A. God and World in Early Christian Theology. New York: Seabury, 1965.

 

Pearson, Birger A. Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007.

 

Pétrement, Simone. A Separate God: The Christian Origins of Gnosticism. Trans. Carol Harrison. New York: Harper and Row, 1990.

 

Quasten, Johannes. Patrology. 4 vols. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics, 1986.

 

Robinson, Thomas A. The Bauer Thesis Examined: The Geography of Heresy in the Early Christian Church. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.

 

Rudolph, Kurt. Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism. Trans. Robert McLachlan Wilson. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987.

 

Wilken, Robert Louis. The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

 

Williams, Rowan. Arius: Heresy and Tradition. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.

 

 

III.    Medieval:

 

Bornstein, Daniel E., ed. Medieval Christianity. A People’s History of Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009.

 

Brown, Peter R. L. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, 200–1000 AD. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

 

Gratsch, Edward J. Aquinas’ Summa: An Introduction and Interpretation. New York: Alba House, 1985.

 

Levy, Ian C., ed. A Companion to John Wyclif: Late Medieval Theologian. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 4. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

 

Louth, Andrew. Greek East and Latin West: The Church A.D. 682–1071. New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2007.

 

Lubac, Henri de. Medieval Exegesis. 3 vols. Trans. E. M. Macierowski. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998–2009.

 

Markus, R. A. Gregory the Great and His World. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

 

Nichols, Aidan. Discovering Aquinas: An Introduction to His Life, Work, and Influence. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.

 

Oberman, Heiko A. The Harvest of Medieval Theology: Gabriel Biel and Late Medieval Nominalism. 1963; repr., Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2000.

 

            , ed. Forerunners of the Reformation: The Shape of Late Medieval Thought Illustrated by Key Documents. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981.

 

Riley-Smith, Jonathan. The Crusades: A History. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

 

Rollo-Koster, Joëlle, and Thomas M. Izbicki. A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378–1417). Leiden: Brill, 2009.

 

Smalley, Beryl. The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages. New York: Philosophical Library, 1952.

 

Southern, R. W. Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. The Penguin History of the Church 2. New York: Penguin Books, 1970.

 

Volz, Carl A. The Medieval Church: From the Dawn of the Middle Ages to the Eve of the Reformation. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997.

 

Wilkinson, John. Jerusalem Pilgrims before the Crusades. 2nd ed. Warminster, Eng.: Aris and Phillips, 2002.

 

 

IV.         Reformation/Post-Reformation:

 

  1. General Reformation Studies

 

Aulen, Gustaf. Reformation and Catholicity. Muhlenberg Press, 1961.

 

Bagchi, David, and David C. Steinmetz, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

 

Bainton, Roland. The Age of the Reformation. Van Nostrand, 1956.

 

            . The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. Beacon, 1952.

 

Brady, Thomas A., Jr., et al., eds. Handbook of European History, 1400 – 1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation. 2 vols. 1994–95; reprint, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.

 

Cameron, Euan. European Reformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

 

Chadwick, Owen. The Reformation. The Penguin History of the Church 3. New York: Penguin Books, 1964.

 

Dykema, Peter A. and Heiko A. Oberman, eds. Anticlericalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Leiden: Brill, 1993.

 

Estep, William R. Renaissance and Reformation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986.

 

Gerrish, B. A. Old Protestantism and the New: Essays on the Reformation Heritage. Chicago, 1992.

 

Guggisberg, Hans R. and Gottfried G. Krodel. The Reformation in Germany and Europe: Interpretations and Issues. Gütersloh: Gütersloh Verlagshaus, 1993.

 

Hillerbrand, Hans J. The Division of Christendom: Christianity in the Sixteenth Century. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007.

 

            . The Reformation: A Narrative History Related by Contemporary Observers and Participants. Harper and Row, 1964.

 

            . The World of the Reformation. Charles Scribner and Sons, 1973.

 

            , ed. The Protestant Reformation. New York: Harper and Row, 1968.

 

Kingdon, Robert, ed. Transition and Revolution: Problems and Issues of European Renaissance and Reformation History. Minneapolis: Burgess, 1974.

 

Lindberg, Carter. The European Reformations. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

 

            , ed. Piety, Politics, and Ethics. Northwest Missouri State University, 1984.

 

Mackinnon, James. The Origins of the Reformation. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1939.

 

Muller, Richard A. Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms: Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1985.

 

Oberman, Heiko A. The Dawn of the Reformation: Essays in Late Medieval and Early Reformation Thought. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992.

 

            . The Impact of the Reformation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.

 

            . Reformation: Roots and Ramification. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.

 

            . The Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Age of the Renaissance and Reformation. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.

 

            , ed. Forerunners of the Reformation: The Shape of Late Medieval Thought Illustrated by Key Documents. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981.

 

Old, Hughes Oliphant. The Shaping of the Reformed Baptismal Rite in the Sixteenth Century. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992.

 

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. 4 vols. Ed. Hans J. Hillerbrand. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

 

Ozment, Steven. Age of Reform: 1250–1550. Yale University Press, 1980.

 

            . Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution. Doubleday, 1992.

 

            . The Reformation in the Cities: The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.

 

            . When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983.

 

            , ed. Reformation Europe: A Guide to Research. St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, 1982.

 

            . The Reformation in Medieval Perspective. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971.

 

            . Religion and Culture in the Renaissance and Reformation. Harvard, 1987.

 

Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Reformation of the Bible. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

 

Tracy, James D. Europe’s Reformations, 1450–1650: Doctrine, Politics, and Community. 2nd ed. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.

 

Whitford, David, ed. Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2008.

 

 

  1. Luther and the Lutheran Reformation

 

Bainton, Roland. Here I Stand. Pierce and Smith, 1950.

 

Brady, Thomas A., Jr. Protestant Politics: Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) and the German Reformation. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities, 1995.

 

Ebeling, Gerhard. Luther: An Introduction to His Thought. 1970.

 

Erikson, Erik. Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History. 1958.

 

Kolb, Robert. Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method: From Martin Luther to the Formula of Concord. Lutheran Quarterly Books. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005.

 

            . Martin Luther: Confessor of the Faith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

 

Lindberg, Carter. Beyond Charity: Reformation Initiatives for the Poor. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

 

McKim, Donald K. The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

 

Mackinnon, James. Luther and the Reformation. 1962.

 

Oberman, Heiko A. Luther: Man between God and the Devil. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

 

Pelikan, Jaroslav. Obedient Rebels: Catholic Substance and Protestant Principle in Luther’s Reformation. SCM Press, 1964.

 

            . Spirit versus Structure: Luther and the Institutions of the Church. Harper and Row, 1968.

 

Preus, James S. Carlstadt’s “Ordinaciones” and Luther’s Liberty: A Study of the Wittenberg Movement 1521-22. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974.

 

Sider, Ronald J. Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt: The Development of His Thought 1517-25. Leiden: Brill, 1974.

 

            . Karlstadt’s Battle with Luther: Documents in a Liberal-Radical Debate. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978.

 

Steinmetz, David C. Luther in Context. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1995. 

 

Tracy, James D., ed. Luther and the Modern State in Germany. Kirksville: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1986.

 

Wengert, Timothy J. Martin Luther’s Catechisms: Forming the Faith. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009.

 

 

  1. Calvin, Reformed Theology, and the Continental Reformation

 

Bangs, Carl. Arminius: A Study in the Dutch Reformation. Nashville: Abingdon, 1971; reprint, Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 1998.

 

Battles, Ford Lewis. Interpreting John Calvin. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1996.

 

Bierma, Lyle, et al. An Introduction to the Heidelberg Catechism: Sources, History, and Theology. Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005.

 

Bouwsma, William J. John Calvin: A Sixteenth Century Portrait. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

 

Cottret, Bernard. Calvin: A Biography. Trans. M. Wallace McDonald. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.

 

Dowey, Edward A., Jr. The Knowledge of God in Calvin’s Theology. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.

 

Fesko, John V. Diversity within the Reformed Tradition: Supra- and Infralapsarianism in Calvin, Dort, and Westminster. Greenville, SC: Reformed Academic Press, 2001.

 

Ganoczy, Alexandre. The Young Calvin. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1987.

 

George, Timothy, ed. John Calvin and the Church: A Prism of Reform. Westminster Press.

 

Gerrish, B. A. Grace and Gratitude: The Eucharistic Theology of John Calvin. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

 

Gordon, Bruce. Calvin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

 

Goudriaan, Aza. Reformed Orthodoxy and Philosophy, 1625–1750: Gisbertus Voetius, Petrus van Mastricht, and Anthonius Driessen. Brill’s Series in Church History, 26. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006.

 

Greef, Wulfert de. The Writings of John Calvin: An Introductory Guide. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1993.

 

Helm, Paul. Calvin and the Calvinists. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1982.

 

Holwerda, David. Exploring the Heritage of John Calvin. 1976.

 

Kingdon, Robert M. Myths about the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacres, 1572-1576. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.

 

James, Frank A., III, ed. Peter Martyr Vermigli and the European Reformations: Semper Reformanda. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, vol. 115. Leiden: Brill, 2004.

 

McCoy, Charles S. and J. Wayne Baker. The Fountainhead of Federalism: Heinrich Bullinger and the Covenantal Tradition. Westminster John Knox Press, 1991.

 

McKee, Elsie Anne. John Calvin on the Diaconate and Liturgical Almsgiving. Geneva: Droz, 1984.

 

McKim, Donald K. The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

 

            , ed. Major Themes in the Reformed Tradition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992.

 

McNeill, J. T. History and Character of Calvinism. 1954.

 

Muller, Richard A. After Calvin: Studies in the Development of a Theological Tradition. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

 

            . Christ and the Decree: Christology and Predestination in Reformed Theology from Calvin to Perkins. 1986; reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008.

 

            .  God, Creation and Providence in the Thought of Jacob Arminius: Sources and Directions of Scholastic Protestantism in the Era of Early Orthodoxy. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1991.

 

            . Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics. 4 volumes. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2003.

 

            . The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

 

Neele, Adriaan. Petrus van Mastricht (1630–1706). Reformed Orthodoxy: Method and Piety. Brill’s Series in Church History, 35. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2009.

 

Olson, Jeannine. Calvin and Social Welfare: Deacons and the “Bourse francaise.” Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1989.

 

Parker, T. H. L. Calvin’s Preaching. Westminster Press, 1992.

 

            . John Calvin: A Biography. 1975.

 

Partee, Charles. The Theology of John Calvin. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.

 

Pettegree, Andrew, et al., eds. Calvinism in Europe 1540-1620. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

 

Schreiner, Susan E. The Theater of His Glory: Nature and the Natural Order in the Thought of John Calvin. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991.

 

Stanglin, Keith D. Arminius on the Assurance of Salvation: The Context, Roots, and Shape of the Leiden Debate, 1603–1609. Brill’s Series in Church History, 27. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2007.

 

Stanglin, Keith D., Th. Marius van Leeuwen, and Marijke Tolsma, eds. Arminius, Arminianism, and Europe: Jacobus Arminius (1559/60–1609). Brill’s Series in Church History, 39. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2009.

 

Steinmetz, David C. Calvin in Context. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

 

Trueman, Carl R. and R. S. Clark, eds. Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment. Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 1999.

 

Venema, Cornelis P. Heinrich Bullinger and the Doctrine of Predestination: Author of “the Other Reformed Tradition”? Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002.

 

Walker, Williston. John Calvin: The Organizer of Reformed Protestantism (1509–1564). 1906; repr., New York: Schocken, 1969.

 

Wendel, François. Calvin: Origins and Development of His Religious Thought. Trans. Philip Mairet. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1997.

 

 

  1. Reformation and the British Isles

 

Bray, Gerald, ed. Documents of the English Reformation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.

 

Davies, Horton. Worship and Theology in England: From Cranmer to Baxter and Fox, 1534–1690. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.

 

Demaus, Robert. William Tindale: A Biography. Oxford: Religious Tract Society, n.d.

 

Kendall, R. T. Calvin and English Calvinism to 1649. 2nd edition. Paternoster Biblical and Theological Monographs. Carlisle, Cumbria: Paternoster Press, 1997.

 

MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Thomas Cranmer: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

 

McKim, Donald K. Ramism in William Perkins’ Theology. New York and Bern: Peter Lang, 1987.

 

Porter, H. C. Reformation and Reaction in Tudor Cambridge. Cambridge: University Press, 1958.

 

Tyacke, Nicholas R. N. Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism, c. 1590-1640. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.

 

Wallace, Dewey. Puritans and Predestination: Grace in English Protestant Theology, 1525-1695. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

 

 

  1. Radical Reformation

 

Estep, W. R. The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.

 

Rempel, John D. The Lord’s Supper in Anabaptism: A Study in the Christology of Balthasar Hubmaier, Pilgram Marpeck, and Dirk Philips. Waterloo: Herald, 1993.

 

Snyder, C. Arnold. Anabaptist History and Theology: An Introduction. Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press, 1996.

 

Stayer, James. Anabaptists and the Sword. Lawrence: Coronado Press, 1972.

 

Williams, George Huntston. The Radical Reformation. 3rd ed. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 15. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2000.

 

 

  1. Catholic Reform and the Counter-Reformation

 

Bagchi, David V. N. Luther’s Earliest Opponents: Catholic Controversialists 1518-1525. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.

 

Idigoras, J. Ignacio Tellechea. Ignatius of Loyola: The Pilgrim Saint. Trans. Cornelius Michael Buckley. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1994.

 

Jedin, Hubert. A History of the Council of Trent. 2 vols. St. Louis: B. Herder, 1957.

 

Kidd, B. J. The Counter-Reformation: 1550–1600. London: SPCK, 1958.

 

O’Malley, John W. The First Jesuits. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

 

            , ed. Catholicism in Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research. St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, 1988.

 

 

V.               Modern:

 

Conn, Harvie M. The American City and the Evangelical Church: A Historical Overview. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994.

 

Davies, Horton. Worship and Theology in England: From Watts and Wesley to Martineau, 1690–1900. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.

 

Grenz, Stanley J. and Roger E. Olson. Twentieth-Century Theology: God and World in a Transitional Age. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 1992.

 

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