General Introductions to Church History

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General Introductions

	Edward Backhouse [1808-1879] & Charles Tylor [1816-1902], Early Church History to the Death of Constantine, 3rd edn. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., 1892. Hbk. pp.333. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Ernest William Barnes [1874-1953], The Rise of Christianity. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1947. Hbk. pp.356. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	H.N. Bate [1871-1941], History Of The Church to A.D. 325, 2nd edn. London: Rivingtons, 1924. Hbk. pp.140. [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Hermann Bengtson, Introduction to Ancient History. Translated from the 6th edn. by R.I. Frank & Frank D. Gilliard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970. ISBN: 0520017234. pp.213.
	John Henry Blunt [1823-1884], A Key to the Knowledge of Church History [Ancient]. London: Rivingtons, 1882. Hbk. pp.163. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	J.J. Blunt, On The Right Use of the Fathers, 3rd Edition. London: John Murray, 1869. Hbk. pp.542. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Francois Bovon, Studies in Early Christianity. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006. ISBN: 080102935X. pp.336.
	British Museum, A Guide to the Early Christian and Byzantime Antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities, 2nd edn. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1921. Pbk. pp.191. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Peter Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom. Blackwell Publishers, 1997. Pbk. ISBN: 1577180925. pp.368.
	Norbert Brox, A Concise History of the Early Church, John Bowden, Translator. Continuum International Publishing Group - Academic and Professional, 1997. Hbk. ISBN: 0826407927. pp.184.
	F.F. Bruce, "Church History and Its Lessons," J.B. Watson, ed., The Church: A Symposium. London: Pickering & Inglis, Ltd., 1949. pp.178-95. pdf
	F.F. Bruce, The Spreading Flame: The Rise and Progress of Christianity from Its First Beginnings to the Conversion of the English Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1964. / Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980. Pbk. ISBN: 0802818056. pp.432.
	Ervin Budiselić, "Lessons from the Early Church for Today's Evangelical Christianity," Kairos Evangelical Journal of Theology 11.1 (July 2017): 67-90. pdf
	Francis Crawford Burkitt [1864-1935], Early Christianity outside the Roman Empire. Two Lectures delivered at Trinity College, Dublin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1899. Hbk. pp.90. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Hans von Campenhausen, Ecclesiastical Authority and Spiritual Power in the Church of the First Three Centuries. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1997. Hbk. ISBN: 1565632729. pp.316.
	Fulbert Cayré, Manual of Patrology and History of Theology, 3 Vols. Paris: Society of St. John the Evangelist, Desclée & Co.,1936-1940.
	Henry Chadwick, The Church in Ancient Society: From Galilee to Gregory the Great. Oxford History of the Christian Church. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pbk. ISBN: 0199265771. pp.740.
	Henry Chadwick, The Penguin History of the Church, Vol 1: The Story of Emergent Christianity from the Apostolic Age to the Dividing of the Ways Between the Greek East and the Latin West, revised edn. Penguin History of the Church, Vol. 1. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 0140231994. pp.320.
	Samuel Cheetham, A History of the Christian Church During the First Six Centuries. London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd., 1905. Hbk. pp.442. [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Samuel Cheetham, A History of the Christian Church During the First Six Centuries. London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd., 1905. Hbk. pp.442. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Alfred John Church [1829-1912], To The Lions. A Tale of the Early Christians. London: Seeley and Co., Ltd., 1893. Hbk. pp.209. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Panagoiis C. Chréstou, Greek Patrology II: The Literature of the Period of the Persecutions. History of Christian Literature, 2. Thessaloniki: Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies, 1978.
	Jean Comby, How To Read Church History, Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the fifteenth century. London: SCM Press Ltd., 1985. Pbk. ISBN: 0334020506. pp.195.
	F.L. Cross, Early Christian Fathers. London: Duckworth, 1960.
	F.L. Cross, & Livingstone, eds. The Oxford Dictionary Of The Christian Church, revised. Oxford: OUP, 1997. Hbk. ISBN: 019211655X. pp.1824.
	J.D. Crossan, The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999. Pbk. ISBN: 0567086682.
	Charles Thomas Cruttwell [1847-1911], A Literary History of Early Christianity including the Fathers and the Chief Heretical Writers of the Ante-Nicene Period for the Use of Students and General Readers, 2 Vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Hbk. pp.686. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Edward Lewis Cutts [1824-1908], Turning Points in General Church History. London: SPCK, 1887. Hbk. pp.451. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	A. DeBernardino & B. Studer, eds. History of Theology, Vol. 1: The Patristic Period. Liturgical Press, 1998. Hbk. ISBN: 0814659152. pp.656.
	Jean Daniélou, Gospel Message And Hellenistic Culture. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1980.
	Ivor J. Davidson, John D. Woodbridge & David Wright, eds., The Birth of the Church: From Jesus to Constantine, A.D. 30-312. Baker History of the Church. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2004. Hbk.ISBN: 0801012708. pp.400.
	Martin Davie, "A Survey of Church History Articles 1986-9," Themelios 15.2 (Jan/Feb 1990): 63-66.
	Martin Davie, "A Survey of Church History Articles 1990-92," Themelios 18.3 (April 1993): 19-21.
	Siegmar Doepp & Wilhelm Geerlings, Dictionary of Early Christian Literature. Herder & Herder, 2001. Hbk. ISBN: 0824518055. pp.632.
	Hubertus R. Drobner, The Fathers of the Church: A Comprehensive Introduction, 2nd edn. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers Inc., 2006. Hbk. ISBN: 1565633318. pp.460.
	J.K. Elliott, editor. The Apocryphal Jesus: Legends of the Early Church. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pbk. ISBN: 0198263848. pp.220.
	Bart Ehrman, After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0195114450. pp.464.
	Angelo Di Bernardino, ed., Encyclopedia of the Early Church. Translated by Adrian Walford with bibliographical amendments by W.H.C. Frend. James Clarke Company, 2000. Hbk. ISBN: 0227678958. pp.1200.
	James P. Eckman, Exploring Church History. Crossway Books, 2002. Pbk. ISBN: 158134368X. pp.107.
	Everett Ferguson, ed. Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, 2nd edn. New York: Garland, 1990. Pbk. ISBN: 0815333196. pp.1212. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	Everett Ferguson, ed., Recent Studies in Early Christianity: A Collection of Scholarly Essays, 6 Vols. New York: Garland Science, 1999. Hbk. ISBN: 0815334907. pp.2328.
	Everett Ferguson, Church History Volume One: From Christ to the Pre-Reformation: The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005. Hbk. ISBN: 0310205808. pp.544.
	W.H.C. Frend, The Early Church: From Beginnings to 461, 3rd edn. London: SCM Press Ltd., 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 0334003504. pp.273.
	W.H.C. Frend, The Rise of Christianity. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1984. Pbk. ISBN: 0800619315. pp.1022.
	Karl Galinsky, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus. Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Hbk. ISBN: 0521807964. pp.432.
	Justo L. González, Church History: An Essential Guide, Vol. 1. HarperCollins Publishers, 1984. ISBN: 0060633158. pp.429.
	Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, A History of Early Christian Literature, revised & expanded by Robert M. Grant. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Pbk. ISBN: 0226303861. pp.ix + 214.
	Samuel Gosnell Green [1822-1905], A Handbook of Church History. From the Apostolic Era to the Dawn of the Reformation, with full dates, Chronological Tables and Index. London: The Religious Tract Society,1904. Hbk. pp.628. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	D.E. Groh, "Changing Points of View in Patristic Scholarship," Anglican Theological Review 60 (1978): 447-65.
	Laurence D. Guy, Introducing Early Christianity: A Topical Survey of Its Life, Beliefs and Practicies. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004. Hbk. ISBN: 083082698X. pp.280.
	Henry Melvill Gwatkin [1844-1916], Early Church History to A.D. 313, 2 Vols., 2nd edn. London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd., 1912. Hbk. pp.311+382. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	R.T. Halliday, "The Teaching of Church History," Scottish Journal of Theology 13 (1960): 60-
	Christopher A. Hall, Learning Theology with the Church Fathers. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002. Pbk. ISBN: 0830826866. pp.296.
	Adolf von Harnack [1851-1930], The Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries. London: Williams and Norgate, 1904. Hbk. pp.494+488. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain] A translation of Die Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums in der ersten drei Jahrhunderten. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1902. "Harnack traced the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on early Christian writings and called on Christians to question the authenticity of doctrines that arose in the early Christian church. He rejected the historicity of the Gospel of John in favor of the Synoptic Gospels, criticized the Apostles' Creed, and promoted the Social Gospel. [Wikipedia]"
	Marvyn H. Harper, "The Study of Church History," Indian Journal of Theology 6.2 (April-June 1957): 39-52. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	W.V. Harris, ed., The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Hbk. ISBN: 9004147179. pp.192.
	Adrian Hastings, Alistair Mason & Hugh Pyper, eds., Christian Thought: A Brief History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pbk. ISBN: 0192802801. pp.188.
	Ian Hazlett, ed. Early Christianity: Origins and Evolution to A.D. 600. In Honour of W.H.C. Frend. Nashville: Abingdon, 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 0687114446. pp.325.
	Wendy Elgersma Helleman, "From Patristics to the Study of Early Christianity," Evangelical Review of Theology 38.3 (July 2014): 231-249. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the editor]
	T.W. Hillard, Ancient History in a Modern University, Vol. 2: Early Christianity, Late Antiquity, and Beyond. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1998. Hbk. ISBN: 0802838413. pp.502.
	Michael Holmes, ed. The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations, revised. Baker / Revell, 1999. Pbk. ISBN: 0801022258. pp.611.
	Robert Foreman Horton [1855-1934], The Early Church. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1908. Hbk. pp.179. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Mark Humphries, Early Christianity. Classical Foundations Series. London: Routledge, 2006. Pbk. ISBN: 0415205395. pp.288.
	William Holden Hutton [1860-1930], An Elementary History of the Church in Great Britain. Oxford Church Text Books. London: Rivingtons, 1899. Hbk. pp.99. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Frederick John Foakes Jackson [1855-1941], The History of the Christian Church to A.D. 461, 6th edn. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1914, 1965. Hbk. pp.648. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Frederick John Foakes Jackson [1855-1941], A History of Church History. Studies of Some Historians of the Christian Church. Cambridge: Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1939. Hbk. pp.194. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Clayton Jefford, Reading the Apostolic Fathers: An Introduction. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 1996. Pbk. ISBN: 1565631544. pp.160.
	Beresford James Kidd [1863-1948], Document Illustrative of the History of the Church, 3 Vols. London: SPCK, 1920, 1932. Hbk. pp. 282+346+234. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Beresford James Kidd [1863-1948], A History of the Church to A.D. 461, 3 Vols. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1922. Hbk. pp.558+471+448. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Derek Krueger, Byzantine Christianity. People's History of Christianity Series. Augsburg Fortress, 2006. Hbk. ISBN: 0800634136. pp.256.
	Johann Heinrich Kurtz [1809-1890] & Alfred Edersheim [1825-1889], History of the Christian Church to the Reformation, from the German of Professor Kurtz, 5th edn. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1880. Hbk. pp.526. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Josephine Laffin, The Duffer's Guide to the Early Church: The Tutorial Notes of Michael Alexander. London: Marshall Pickering / Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 0551029145. pp.128. A light-hearted but helpful introduction for the church history novice.
	Charles Arthur Lane [1856-1912], Illustrated Notes on English Church History, Vol. 1. From the Earliest Times to the Dawn of the Reformation, revised edn. London: SPCK, 1886, 1908. Hbk. pp.264. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Kenneth S. Latourette, A History Of Christianity, revised. HarperCollins Australia, 1976. Pbk. ISBN: 0060649534.
	Noel Lenski, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Pbk. 2005. ISBN: 0521521572. pp.488.
	Franklin H. Littell, The Illustrated History of Christianity. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003. Pbk. ISBN: 0826415288. pp.456.
	Arthur Cushman McGiffert [1861-1933], A History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1897. Hbk. pp.680. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Paul McKechnie, The First Christian Centuries: Perspectives on the Early Church. Leicester: Apollos, 2001. Pbk. ISBN: 0851114792. pp.270.
	James Mackinnon [1860-1945], From Christ to Constantine. The Rise and Growth of the Early Church. (c. A.D. 30 to 337). London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1936. Hbk. pp.584. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Robert MacMullen, Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Pbk. ISBN: 0300080778. pp.288.
	Abraham J. Malherbe, ed., The Early Church in Its Context: Essays in Honour of Everett Ferguson. Novum Testamentum Supplements Series, Vol. 90. Leiden: Brill, 1998. Hbk. ISBN: 9004108327. pp.380.
	Roger E. Olson, The Mosiac of Christian Belief. Twenty Centuries of Unity and Diversity. Leicester: IVP, 2002. Hbk. ISBN: 0830826955. pp.500.
	The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Simon Hornblower & Antony Spawforth, eds. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Hbk. ISBN: 019866172X. pp.1696.
	Jaroslav Pelikan, "The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600)," The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Vol. 1. London & Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. Pbk. ISBN: 0226653714. pp.394.
	Alfred Plummer [1841-1926], The Church of the Early Fathers, 6th edn. London: Longman, Green & Co., 1892. Hbk. pp.210. [This material is in the Public Domain]
	G.L. Prestige, Fathers and Heretics. London: SPCK, 1940.
	Johannes Quasten, Patrology. 4 Vols. Utrecht / Westminster: Spectrum / Christian Classics, 1950-1986. ISBN: 0870611410.
	Robert Rainy, The Ancient Catholic Church from the Accession of Trajan to the Fourth General Council [A.D. 98-451]. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1902. Hbk. pp.539. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Boniface Ramsey, Beginning to Read the Fathers. New York/Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1994. Pbk. ISBN: 0809126915. pp. iii + 280.
	Philip Rousseau, The Early Christian Centuries. Longman, 2002. Pbk. ISBN: 0582256534. pp.339.
	Prof. Philip Schaff, "The Progress of Church History as a Science," Bibliotheca Sacra 7 No. 25 (1850): 54-91. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Hans von Schubert [1859-1931], Outlines of Church History, translated from the third German Edition by Maurice A. Canney [1872-1942] with a supplementary Chapter by Miss Alice Gardner [1854-1927]. London: Williams & Norgate, 1907. Hbk. pp.399. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Prof. H.B. Smith, "The Nature and the Worth of the Science of Church History," Bibliotheca Sacra 8 No. 30 (1851): 412-441. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Rudolf Sohm [1841-1917], Outlines of Church History, translated by Miss May Sinclair. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909. Hbk. pp.260. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley [1815-1881], Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church with an Introduction on the Study of Ecclesiastical History, 5th edn. London: John Murray, 1884. Hbk. pp.422. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries. Harper San Francisco, 1997. Pbk. ISBN: 0060677015. pp.272.
	E.W. Steggemann & W. Stegemann, The Jesus Movement: A Social History of its First Century. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress, 1999. Pbk. ISBN: 080063425X. pp.544.
	Henry Barclay Swete [1835-1917], Patristic Study. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1902. Hbk. pp.194. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Robert Owen Thomas, Notes on the Early Church: Manual of Church History From A.D. 64 and A.D. 500, including A Concise Analysis, Biographical Notes, Self-testing and Chronological Table, and a Set of Examination Papers. London: Thomas Murby, n.d. Hbk. pp.144. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Joseph Tixeront, A Handbook of Patrology: Translated from 4th French edn. St. Louis: Herder, 1951.
	H..E.W. Turner, The Pattern of Christian Truth. London: MacMillan, 1954.
	Arthur Richard Whitham [1863-1930], The History of the Christian Church to the Separation of East and West, 4th edn. London: Rivingtons, 1963. Hbk. pp.354. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Maurice Wiles, The Christian Fathers. London SCM Press, 1977. Pbk. ISBN: 0334019303. pp.192.
	Rowan Williams, Why Study the Past? London: Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd., 2005. Pbk. ISBN: 0232525498. pp.112.
	Frances M. Young, From Nicaea to Chalcedon: A Guide tot he Literature and Its Background. Philadelphia / London: Westminster / SCM Press, 1983. Hbk. ISBN: 0800607112.