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Note: Each chapter concludes with a Bibliography | |
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A Note on Scriptural References | |
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The Ancient Church in Religious Context | |
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Cult Worship | |
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Letter of Emperor Tiberius on the Imperial Cult | |
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Apuleius, Metamorphoses | |
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Day of Atonement (Yoma) from the Mishnah | |
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The Teachings (Didache); or, the Lord's Instructions to the Gentiles Through the Twelve Apostles | |
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Justin Martyr, Apologia | |
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Charisma | |
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Artemidorus of Daldis, The Interpretation of Dreams | |
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1 Enoch | |
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Gregory of Nyssa, Life of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus | |
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Hermas, The Shepherd | |
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Tertullian, On the Soul | |
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Martyr | |
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Anonymous, The Martyrdoms of Perpetua and Felicitas | |
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Eusebius, The Ecclesiastical History | |
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Philosophy | |
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations | |
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Philo of Alexandria, On the Preliminary Studies | |
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Gospel of Thomas | |
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Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies | |
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Tertullian, On the Prescription Against Heretics | |
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Bbishop | |
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St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Ephesians | |
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Irenaeus, Against Heresies | |
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Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages | |
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Asceticism | |
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Athanasius, Life of Antony | |
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St. Ephraem of Edessa, Life of St. Mary the Harlot, Niece of the Hermit Abraham | |
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St. Benedict of Nursia, Rule | |
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Arianism | |
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The Preliminary Epistolary War | |
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Letter of Arius to Eusebius, Bishop of Nicodemia | |
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Circular Letter of Alexander of Alexandria | |
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The Council of Nicaea | |
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Letter of Athanasius, "To the Africans." | |
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The Creed of Nicaea | |
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Original Sin | |
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St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions | |
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Pelagius, Letter to Demetrias | |
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Relic Veneration | |
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St. Jerome, Against Vigilantius | |
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Gregory of Tours, Glory of the Martyrs | |
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Barbarian Conversion | |
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St. Boniface, Miscellaneous Documents | |
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Willibald, Life of St. Boniface | |
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Letter of Bishop Daniel of Winchester to Boniface | |
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Letter of Boniface to Bishop Daniel | |
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Rudolf of Fulda, Life of Leoba | |
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The High Middle Ages | |
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Investiture Crisis | |
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Correspondence of Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV | |
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Henry to Gregory | |
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Gregory to Henry | |
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Henry to Gregory | |
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Gregory to the German Princes | |
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Crusade | |
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Fulcher of Chartres, The First Crusade | |
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Scholasticism | |
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Peter Abelard, History of My Calamities | |
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Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica | |
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Sacrament | |
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Peter Lombard, Four Books of Sentences | |
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Statutes of Bishop Robert Grosseteste for the Diocese of Lincoln | |
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Mendicants | |
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Documents on St. Francis of Assisi | |
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Thomas Celano, Life of St. Francis of Assisi | |
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Francis of Assisi, "Prayer." | |
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Frances of Assisi, "The Canticle of Brother Sun" | |
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The Late Middle Ages and Renaissance | |
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Pilgrimage | |
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The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela | |
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Desiderius Erasmus, A Pilgrimage for Religion's Sake | |
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Contemptus Mundi | |
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Thomas agrave; Kempis, The Imitation of Christ | |
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Bernadino da Siena, On the Vanity of the World and Especially of Women | |
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Inquisition | |
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Bernard Gui, Manual of the Inquisitor | |
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Mysticism | |
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Meister Eckhart, Sermon | |
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Catherine of Genoa, Purgation and Purgatory | |
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Humanism | |
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Giannozzo Manetti, On the Dignity of Man | |
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Florentino Vespasiano da Bisticci, Lives of Illustrious Men, "Pope Nicholas V" | |
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The Reformation Era | |
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Evangelicalism | |
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Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Paraclesis: or, An Exhortation | |
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Martin Luther, Preface to the New Testament | |
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William Tyndale, Preface to Pentateuch | |
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Justification | |
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Martin Luther, Preface to Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans | |
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John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion | |
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Theresa of Avila, Life | |
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Anabaptists | |
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Letter from Conrad Grebel to Thomas Muntzer | |
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Thirteen Statements on the Order of Life and A Code for Public Behavior [in Munster] | |
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Letter from a Dutch Anabaptist Martyr to Her Daughter | |
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Indoctrination | |
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Woodcuts | |
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Hymns | |
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Martin Luther, "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." | |
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Paul Speratus, "Salvation unto Us Has Come" | |
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The Heidelberg Catechism | |
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Letter from a Dutch Calvinist Minister on Rural Ignorance and Apathy | |
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St. Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises | |
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Religious Toleration | |
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Two letters on the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre | |
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Theodor Beza to Christoph Hardesheim | |
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Joachim Opser, S.J., to the Abbot of St. Gallen Monastery | |
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Sebastian Castellio, Concerning Heretics | |
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The Confessional Age | |
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Nonconformists | |
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The Life of Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, Written by Herself | |
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John Milton, Poetry | |
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"To the Lord General Cromwell." | |
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"On His Blindness" | |
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George Fox, Journal | |
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Witch-Hunt | |
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Witches at Chelmsford | |
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Recantation of Cornelius Loos | |
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Cotton Mather, Witches | |
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Deism | |
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Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia) | |
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Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary | |
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Methodism | |
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John Wesley, Minutes of Some Late Conversations Between the Rev. Messrs. Wesley and Others | |
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Methodist Hyms | |
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John Wesley, Preface to A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists | |
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Charles Wesley, "Come, Sinners, to the Gospel Feast." | |
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Charles Wesley, "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing!" | |
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North American Christianity to 1860 | |
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New World Missions | |
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Jean de Brebeuf, "Instruction for the Fathers of Our Society Who Shall Be Sent to the Hurons" | |
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Pierre Franccedil;ois Xavier Charlevoix, "The Conversion and Holy Death of Catherine Tegahkouita " | |
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Junipero Serra, Annual Records of the Mission of San Carlos de Monterey | |
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Great Awakening | |
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Accounts of the Great Awakening | |
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Jonathan Edwards, Letter to George Whitefield | |
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George Whitefield, Diary | |
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Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography | |
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Nathan Cole, Diary | |
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Timothy Cutler, Letters | |
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Premillennialism | |
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Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy | |
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Abolitionism | |
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Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial | |
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David Walker, Four Articles | |
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Frederick Douglass, Autobiography | |
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Nineteenth-Century Europe | |
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Romanticism | |
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Friedrich Schleiermacher, On Religion, Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers | |
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William Blake, Poetry | |
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"Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau." | |
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"The Tiger" | |
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Socialism | |
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Henri Saint-Simon, New Christianity: First Dialogue | |
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Karl Marx, "The Social Principles of Christianity" | |
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Leo XIII, De Rerum Novarum | |
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Higher Criticism | |
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F.C. Baur, Paul, The Apostle of Jesus Christ, Life, Work, His Epistles, Doctrine: A Contribution to the Critical History of Primitive Christianity | |
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Ernest Renan, The Life of Jesus | |
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Catholic Renewal | |
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John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Being a History of His Religious Opinions | |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poetry | |
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"The Habit of Perfection." | |
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"God's Grandeur." | |
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"The Caged Skylark" | |
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Therese of Lisieux, Story of a Soul | |
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Missionary Societies | |
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Erastus Wentworth, Journal | |
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Rebecca J. Parker, "The Key of the Home: A Picture of Wor | |