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Topics in History of Christianity
Abortion and the Patristic Church
Anabaptists
Biesecker-Mast, Gerald. “The Persistence of Anabaptism as Vision.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 81, 2007.
Stayer, James, Werner Packull and Klaus Depperman. “From Monogenesis to Polygenesis.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 49, 1975.
Stayer, James. “Swiss Brethren: An Exercise in Historical Definition.” Church History 47, 1978.
Anti-trinitarianism
Biddle, John. “Locke’s Critique of Innate Principles and Toland’s Deism.” Journal of the History of Ideas 37, 1976.
McLachlan, H. John. Socinianism in Seventeenth-Century England.
Apostasy and the Patristic Church
Bogomils
Sharenkoff, Victor Nicholov. “Bogomils.” Anglican Theological Review 7 no 3, 1924.
Groote, Marc de. “Anonymous sermon against the Hagarenes, the Bogomils, and the Jews.” Harvard Theological Review 97 no 3, 2004.
Calvin and His Followers
Beza, Theodore. Christian faith . Trans. James Clark.
Boersma, Hans. “Calvin and the Extent of the Atonement”. Evangelical Quarterly 64 no 4,1992.
Ferguson, Sinclair B. “The Teaching of the Confession”. Westminster Confession in the Church Today: Papers Prepared for the Church of Scotland Panel on Doctrine. Ed. Alasdair I. C. Heron.
Hall, Basil. “Calvin Against the Calvinists”. John Calvin . Ed. G. E. Duffield.
Kennedy, Kevin. “Was Calvin a Calvinist? John Calvin on the extent of the atonement.” Whosoever will : a biblical-theological critique of five-point Calvinism, Ed. David L. Allen and Steve W. Lemke.
Letham, Robert. “Faith and Assurance in Early Calvinism: A Model of Continuity and Diversity”. Later Calvinism: International Perspectives. Ed. W. Fred Graham.
Muller, Richard A. “Theodore Beza (1519-1605)”. Reformation Theologians . Ed. Carter Lindberg.
Peterson, Robert A. “Theodore Beza: 1519-1605”. Shapers of Religious Traditions in Germany, Switzerland, and Poland, 1560-1600. Ed. Jill Raitt.
Thorson, Stephen. “Tensions in Calvin's View of Faith: Unexamined Assumptions in R T Kendall's Calvin and English Calvinism to 1649”. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 37, 1994.
Torrance, James B. “Strengths and Weaknesses of the Westminster Theology”. Westminster Confession. Ed. Alisdair Heron.
Church and the Military in the Pre-Constantinan Context
Bainton, Roland H. “Early church and war.” Harvard Theological Review 39 no 3, 1946.
Barber, Patrick G. “Christian views of military participation prior to the reign of Constantine.” Restoration Quarterly 53 no 2, 2011.
Cadbury, Henry Joel. “Basis for early Christian antimilitarism.” Journal of Biblical Literature 27 no 1-2, 1918.
Childress, James F. “Moral discourse about war in the early church.” Journal of Religious Ethics 12 no 1, 1984.
Gero, Stephen. “Miles gloriosus: the Christian and military service according to Tertullian.” Church History 29 no 3, 1970.
Helgeland, John. “Christians and the Roman army, AD 173-337.” Church History 43 no 2, 1974.
Hunter, David G. “A decade of research on early Christians and military service.” Religious Studies Review 18 no 2, 1992.
Ryan, E.A. “Rejection of military service by the early Christians.” Theological Studies 13 no 1, 1952.
Columba
Neander, Augustus J. Light in dark places: or, a memorial of Christian life in the middle ages.
Clark, Columba Bruce. “Columba sails east.” Road to Emmaus 5 no 2, 2004.
LeMasters, Philip. “Celtic Christianity: its call to discipleship.” Encounter 60 no 4, 1999.
Herbert, Maire. Iona, Kells, and Derry: the history and hagiography of the monastic family of Columba.
Montalembert, Charles F. Saint Columba: apostle of Caledonia.
Cooke, Edward Alexander. Life and works of St. Columba.
Hull, Eleanor. Early Christian Ireland.
Smith, John. Life of Saint Columba, the apostle of the highlands.
Cusack, Mary F. Lives of Saint Columba and Saint Brigit.
Branford, Victor. St. Columba: a study of social inheritance and spiritual development .
Menzies, Lucy. Saint Columba of Iona: a study of his life, his times, and his influence .
Forbes, Francis A. Life of Saint Columba, apostle of Scotland.
Constantine
Armstrong, G.T. "Church and state relations: the changes wrought by Constantine." Journal of Bible and Religion 32, 1964.
Azkoul, Michael. “Sacerdotium et imperium: the Constantinian renovation according to the Greek fathers.” Theological Studies 32 no 3, 1971.
Eusebius. “Life of Constantine.” Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Series 2. Volume 1. Trans. Philip Schaff.
Robertson, James C. Sketches of church history, from AD 33 to the reformation.
Schaff, Philip. History of the Christian Church. Volume 3.
Storch, Rudolf. “Eusebian Constantine.” Church History 40 no 2, 1971.
Theodoret. “Ecclesiastical history of Theodoret, Book 1.” Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Series 2. Volume 3. Trans. Philip Schaff.
Gilbert Burnet and John Foxe
Allen, D. “Introduction.” History of His Own Time.
Bartlett, I.R. “John Foxe as Hagiographer: the question revisited.” Sixteenth Century Journal 26, 1995.
Drabble, J.E. “Gilbert Burnet and the History of the English Reformation.” Journal of Religious History , 1983
Preston, J.H. “English Ecclesiastical Historians and the Problem of Bias, 1559-1742.” Journal of the History of Ideas 32, 1971.
Girolamo Savonarola
Becker, Marvin B. “Comment on Savonarola, Florence, and the millenarian tradition.” Church History 27 no 4, 1958.
Kolb, Robert. “Saint John Hus and Jerome Savonarola, confessor of God: the Lutheran canonization of late medieval martyrs.” Concordia Journal 17 no 4, 1991.
Ulback, Edward. “Savonarola.” Bibliotheca Sacra 96 no 382, 1939.
Weinstein, Donald. “Savonarola, Florence, and the millenarian tradition.” Church History 27 no 4,1958.
Weinstein, Donald. “Savonarola: preacher and patriot.” History Today 29 no 11, 1989.
Gregory the Great
Dudden, F. Homes. Gregory the Great: his place in history and thought (2 volumes).
Neander, Augustus J. Light in dark places: or, a memorial of Christian life in the middle ages.
Robertson, James C. Sketches of church history, from AD 33 to the reformation.
Inquisition
Courtenay, William J. “Inquiry and inquisition: academic freedom in medieval universities.” Church History 58 no 2, 1989.
Kelly, Henry Ansgar. “Inquisition and the prosecution of heresy: misconceptions and abuses.” Church History 58 no 4, 1989.
Lea, Henry Charles. History of the inquisition of Spain (4 volumes).
Lea, Henry Charles. History of the inquisition of the middle ages (3 volumes).
Mott, Margaret. “Rule of faith over reason: the role of the inquisition in Iberia and New Spain.” Journal of Church and State 40 no 1, 1998.
Jan Hus
Batka, Lubomir. “Jan Hus’ theology in a Lutheran context.” Lutheran Quarterly 23 no 1, 2009.
Fudge, Thomas A. “Infoelix His: the rehabilitation of a medieval heretic.” Fides et Historia 30 no 1, 1998.
Fudge, Thomas A. “Shouting Hus: heresy appropriated as propaganda in the sixteenth century.” Communio Viatorum 38 no 3, 1996.
Herold, Vilem. “Jan Hus: a heretic, a saint, or a reformer?” Communio Viatorum 25 no 1, 2003.
Kolb, Robert. “Saint John Hus and Jerome Savonarola, confessor of God: the Lutheran canonization of late medieval martyrs.” Concordia Journal 17 no 4, 1991.
Noble, Ivana. “Jan Hus in ecumenical discussion.” Journal of European Baptist Studies 6 no 2, 2006.
Zeman, Jarold K. “Restitution and dissent in the late medieval renewal movements: the Waldensians, the Hussites and the Bohemian Brethren.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 44 no 1, 1976.
Jerome
Hagendahl, Harald. “Jerome and the Latin classics.” Vigilae Christianae 28 no 3, 1974.
Schaff, Philip. History of the Christian Church. Volume 3.
Sparks, H.F.D. “Jerome as biblical scholar.” Cambridge history of the Bible . Ed. P.R. Ackroyd.
John Wycliffe
Mallard, William. “John Wyclif and the tradition of biblical authority.” Church History 30 no 1, 1961.
Cook, William R. “John Wyclif and Hussite theology.” Church History 42 no 3, 1973.
Jeffrey, David L. “John Wyclif and the hermeneutics of reader response.” Interpretation 39 no 3, 1985.
Levy, Ian C. “John Wyclif: Christian patience in a time of war.” Theological Studies 66 no 2, 2005.
Levy, Ian C. “Narrowing of Eucharistic orthodoxy: Wycliffites and their opponents.” Lexington Theological Quarterly 41 no 2, 2006.
Laudianism
Lamont, W. “The Rise of Arminianism Reconsidered.” Past and Present 107, 1985.
Merritt, J.F. “The Cradle of Laudianism? Westminster Abbey, 1558-1630.” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 52, 2001.
Penny, D.A. Freewill or Predestination: the Battle over Saving Grace in Mid-Tudor England.
Marriage in the Patristic Period
Origen
Robertson, James C. Sketches of church history, from AD 33 to the reformation.
Patrick
Voragine, Jacobus de. Golden legend. Volume 3.
Neander, Augustus J. Light in dark places: or, a memorial of Christian life in the middle ages.
Robertson, James C. Sketches of church history, from AD 33 to the reformation.
Hull, Eleanor. Early Christian Ireland.
Petrobrusians and Henricians
Iogna-Prat, Dominique. Order and exclusion: Cluny and Christendom face heresy, Judaism, and Islam (1000-1150).
John of Damascus. On Divine Images.
Peter the Venerable. Tractatus Contra Petrobrusianos.
Schaff, Philip. History of the Christian Church. Volumes 5-6.
Saint Anthony of Egypt
Athanasius. Paradise or garden of the holy fathers.
McClellan, Michael. Monasticism in Egypt: images and words of the desert fathers.
Quasden, Johannes. Patrology. Volume 3.
Rubenson, Samuel. Letters of St. Antony: monasticism and the making of a saint.
Schaff, Philip. History of the Christian Church. Volume 3.
Voragine, Jacobus de. “Of the life of Saint Anthony.” Golden Legend. Volume 2.
Slavery in the Patristic Period
Waldenses
Gonnet, Giovanni. “Influence of the sermon on the mount upon the ethics of the Waldensians of the middle ages.” Brethren Life and Thought 25 no 1, 1990.
Root, Robert. “Waldensians.” Christian Century 64 no 38, 1947.
Schaff, Philip. History of the Christian Church . Volume 5.
Treesh, Susanna K. “Waldensian recourse to violence.” Church History 55 no 3, 1986.
Zeman, Jarold K. “Restitution and dissent in the late medieval renewal movements: the Waldensians, the Hussites and the Bohemian Brethren.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 44 no 1, 1976.
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