CHURCH HISTORY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The books listed here only cover the period up to the Reformation. Some
of the multi-volume series continue up to modern times; details of volumes on
post-Reformation history will appear in How to Read Church History, Volume 2.
1. Multi-volume series
The Pelican History of the Church, Penguin Books
H. Chadwick, The Early Church, 1964.
R. W. Southern, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages, 1970
The Christian Centuries, Darton, Longman and Todd and Paulist
Press
1. Jean Danielou and Henri Marrou, The First Six Hundred Years, 1964
David Knowles and Dimitri Obolevsky, The Middle Ages, 1969
A Handbook of Church History, ed. Hubert Jedin and John Dolan,
Herder and Herder and Burns and Oates
1. From the Apostolic Community to Constantine, 1965.
The Church in the Ages of Feudalism, 1969
4. From the High Middle Ages to the Eve of the Reformation, 1970
(There is no volume 3)
2. Some important single-volume histories
K. Aland, A History of Christianity, Volume 1, From the Beginnings to the
Reformation, Fortress Press 1985
W. H. C. Frend, The Rise of Christianity, Fortress Press and Darton, Longman and
Todd, 1984.
J. Derek Holmes and Bernard W. Bickers, A Short History of the Catholic Church,
Burns and Oates, 1983
Paul Johnson, A History of Christianity, Penguin Books 1984
3. Histories of the Church in England
David L. Edwards, Christian England, Volume 1, Its Story to the Reformation, Fount
Books 1982
J.R.H. Moorman, A History of the Church in England, A. & C. Black, third
edition 1973
Translations of the most important doctrinal works of the church can be
found in the following:
The Ante-Nicene Fathers
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, First and Second Series
These translations, made at the end of the last century, have recently been re-issued
by Eerdmans
Library of Christian Classics
A series of twenty-four volumes, published by SCM Press and Westminster Press in the
1960's
Some important Christian works from this period are also available as
Penguin Classics.
The standard selected collections of historical and doctrinal documents
are:
H. Betteneson, Documents of the Christian Church, Oxford University press, second
edition 1963
T.H. Bindley and F.W. Green, The Oecumenical Documents of the Faith, Methuen 1950
J. Stevenson, Creeds, Councils and Controversies. Documents Illustrating the History
of the Church, 337-461, SPCK 1957
For further information about all the questions in this book the
indispensable guide is F. L. Cross and E.A. Livingstone (eds.), The Oxford Dictionary
of the Christian Church, Oxford University Press, second edition 1974
Geographical information and pictures relating to the early period are contained in F. van
der Meer and Christine Mohrmann, Atlas of the Early Christian Church, Nelson 1959 |
