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Ecclesiology: A Study in Church History
CHURCH DOCUMENTS according to year.
100-200 | Odes of Solomon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
101-220 | Book of Elchasai | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
105-115 | Ignatius of Antioch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
110-140 | Polycarp to the Philippians | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
110-140 | Papias | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
110-160 | Oxyrhynchus 840 Gospel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
110-160 | Traditions of Matthias | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
111-112 | Pliny the Younger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
115 | Suetonius | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
115 | Tacitus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
120-130 | Quadratus of Athens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
120-130 | Apology of Aristides | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
120-140 | Basilides | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
120-140 | Naassene Fragment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
120-160 | Valentinus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
120-180 | Apocryphon of John | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
120-180 | Gospel of Mary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
120-180 | Dialogue of the Savior | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
120-180 | Gospel of the Savior | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
120-180 | 2nd Apocalypse of James | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
120-180 | Trimorphic Protennoia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
130-140 | Marcion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
130-150 | Aristo of Pella | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
130-160 | Epiphanes On Righteousness | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
130-160 | Ophite Diagrams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
130-160 | 2 Clement | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
130-170 | Gospel of Judas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
130-200 | Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
140-150 | Epistula
Apostolorum
140-160 |
Ptolemy |
140-160 |
Isidore |
140-170 |
Fronto |
140-170 |
Infancy
Gospel of James |
140-170 |
Infancy
Gospel of Thomas |
140-180 |
Gospel
of Truth |
150-160 |
Martyrdom
of Polycarp |
150-160 |
Justin
Martyr |
150-180 |
Excerpts
of Theodotus |
150-180 |
Heracleon |
150-200 |
Ascension
of Isaiah |
150-200 |
Acts
of Peter |
150-200 |
Acts
of John |
150-200 |
Acts
of Paul |
150-200 |
Acts
of Andrew |
150-225 |
Acts
of Peter and the Twelve |
150-225 |
Book
of Thomas the Contender |
150-250 |
Fifth
and Sixth Books of Esra |
150-300 |
Authoritative
Teaching |
150-300 |
Coptic
Apocalypse of Paul |
150-300 |
Discourse
on the Eighth and Ninth |
150-300 |
Melchizedek |
150-400 |
Acts
of Pilate |
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150-400 | Anti-Marcionite Prologues |
160-170 | Tatian's Address to the Greeks |
160-180 | Claudius Apollinaris |
160-180 | Apelles |
160-180 | Julius Cassianus |
160-250 | Octavius of Minucius Felix |
161-180 | Acts of Carpus |
165-175 | Melito of Sardis |
165-175 | Hegesippus |
165-175 | Dionysius of Corinth |
165-175 | Lucian of Samosata |
167 | Marcus Aurelius |
170-175 | Diatessaron |
170-200 | Dura-Europos Gospel Harmony |
170-200 | Muratorian Canon |
170-200 | Treatise on the Resurrection |
170-220 | Letter of Peter to Philip |
175-180 | Athenagoras of Athens |
175-185 | Irenaeus of Lyons |
175-185 | Rhodon |
175-185 | Theophilus of Caesarea |
175-190 | Galen |
178 | Celsus |
178 | Letter from Vienna and Lyons |
180 | Passion of the Scillitan Martyrs |
180-185 | Theophilus of Antioch |
180-185 | Acts of Apollonius |
180-220 | Bardesanes |
180-220 | Kerygmata Petrou |
180-230 | Hippolytus of Rome |
180-250 | 1st Apocalypse of James |
180-250 | Gospel of Philip |
182-202 | Clement of Alexandria |
185-195 | Maximus of Jerusalem |
185-195 | Polycrates of Ephesus |
188-217 | Talmud |
189-199 | Victor I |
190-210 | Pantaenus |
193 | Anonymous Anti-Montanist |
193-216 | Inscription of Abercius |
197-220 | Tertullian |
200-210 | Serapion of Antioch |
200-210 | Apollonius |
200-220 | Caius |
200-220 | Philostratus |
200-225 | Acts of Thomas |
200-250 | Didascalia |
200-250 | Books of Jeu |
200-300 | Pistis Sophia |
200-300 | Coptic Apocalypse of Peter |
203 | Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas |
203-250 | Origen |
Eusebius of Caesarea: Church History | |
Edgar J. Goodspeed, An Introduction to the New Testament | |
George A. Jackson, The Post-Nicene Greek Fathers | |
H. Latimer Jackson, The Problem of the Fourth Gospel | |
Kirsopp Lake, Landmarks of Early Christianity | |
J. B. Lightfoot, The Apostolic Fathers | |
Alfred Loisy, The Birth of the Christian Religion | |
Alfred Loisy, The Origins of the New Testament | |
Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus | |
E. F. Scott, The Fourth Gospel: Its Purpose and Theology | |
J. H. Srawley, The Epistles of St. Ignatius | |
David Friedrich Strauss, The Life of Jesus Critically Examined | |
J. Tixeront, A Handbook of Patrology | |
C. D. Yonge, The Works of Philo |
William Barclay, Many Witnesses, One Lord | |
Walter Bauer, Orthodoxy and Heresy | |
Chrysostomus Baur, John Chrysostom and His Time | |
Louis Berkhof, New Testament Introduction | |
Daniel Boyarin, A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity | |
F. F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? | |
E. W. Bullinger, The Apocalypse | |
Rudolf Bultmann, Jesus and the Word | |
Rudolf Bultmann, Kerygma and Myth | |
Millar Burrows, Jesus in the First Three Gospels | |
William R. Cannon, The Book of Acts | |
William R. Cannon, The Gospel of John | |
William R. Cannon, The Gospel of Matthew | |
Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning | |
Walter Richard Cassels, Supernatural Religion: An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation | |
R. H. Charles, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on The Revelation of St. John | |
W. H. Daubney, Three Additions to Daniel: A Study | |
Stevan Davies, The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom | |
William J. Deane, Pseudepigrapha: An Account of Certain Apocryphal Sacred Writings of the Jews and Early Christians | |
Martin Dibelius, Jesus | |
C. H. Dodd, The Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments | |
James J. O'Donnell, Cassiodorus | |
M. G. Easton, Easton's Bible Dictionary | |
Ronald L. Ecker, And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible | |
Alfred Edersheim, Bible History, Old Testament | |
Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah | |
Alfred Edersheim, Sketches of Jewish Social Life | |
Alfred Edersheim, The Temple: Its Ministry and Services | |
George Edmundson, Church in Rome in the First Century | |
Vernard Eller, The Beloved Disciple: His Name, His Story, His Thought | |
Vernard Eller, The Most Revealing Book of the Bible | |
Friedrich Engels, On the History of Early Christianity | |
Frederic Farrar, The Life of Christ | |
William Floyd, Mistakes of Jesus | |
Sir James George Frazer, The Golden Bough | |
Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr., Beast of Revelation | |
Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr., Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation | |
Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | |
Louis Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews | |
Robert M. Grant, A Historical Introduction to the New Testament | |
Kersey Graves, The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors | |
Simon Greenleaf, Testimony of the Evangelists | |
Neill Q. Hamilton, Jesus for a No-God World | |
William Hamilton, The Modern Reader's Guide to the Gospels | |
Richard Heard, An Introduction to the New Testament | |
Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible | |
David Hume, The Natural History of Religion | |
Robert Ingersoll, Some Mistakes Of Moses | |
Thomas Jefferson, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth | |
Joachim Jeremias, The Central Message of the New Testament | |
Joachim Jeremias, The Lord's Prayer | |
Joachim Jeremias, The Sermon on the Mount | |
B. W. Johnson, The New Testament Commentary: John | |
B. W. Johnson, The People's New Testament | |
Edwin Johnson, Antiqua Mater | |
Michael Kelley, The Burden of God: Studies in Wisdom and Civilization from the Book of Ecclesiastes | |
Warren S. Kissinger, The Sermon on the Mount: A History of Interpretation and Bibliography | |
John Knox, Jesus Lord and Christ | |
Robert D. Lane, Reading the Bible | |
Gerald Larue, Old Testament Life and Literature | |
Robert Law, The Tests of Life, a Study of the First Epistle of St. John | |
H. P. Liddon, Explanatory Analysis of St. Paul's First Epistle to Timothy | |
John Lightfoot, A Commentary on the New Testament From the Talmud and Hebraica | |
J. B. Lightfoot, The Brethren of the Lord | |
J. B. Lightfoot, On Some Points Connected with the Essenes | |
Thomas M. Lindsay, Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries | |
M. M. Mangasarian, The Truth About Jesus: Is He a Myth? | |
Joseph McCabe, The Story Of Religious Controversy | |
J. W. McGarvey, A Commentary on Acts of Apostles | |
J. W. McGarvey, The Authorship of Deuteronomy | |
J. W. McGarvey Lands of the Bible | |
G.R.S. Mead, Gnostic John the Baptizer | |
G.R.S. Mead, The Hymn of Jesus: Echoes from the Gnosis | |
F. B. Meyer, The Way Into the Holiest | |
William G. Most, The Consciousness of Christ | |
Gary North, Leviticus: An Economic Commentary | |
Gary North, Tools of Dominion: The Case Laws of Exodus | |
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason | |
Thomas Paine, Examination of the Prophecies | |
Norman Perrin, Jesus and the Language of the Kingdom | |
Norman Perrin, Rediscovering the Teachings of Jesus | |
G. de Purucker, The Story of Jesus | |
William M. Ramsay, The Church in the Roman Empire Before A.D. 170 | |
William M. Ramsay, The First Christian Century | |
William M. Ramsay, A Historical Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians | |
William M. Ramsay, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia | |
William M. Ramsay, St. Paul the Traveler and the Roman Citizen | |
John E. Remsburg, The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidence of His Existence | |
Ernest Renan, The Life of Jesus | |
Jocelyn Rhys, Shaken Creeds: The Virgin Birth Doctrine | |
J. C. Robertson, Sketches of Church History | |
Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, Vol. I, The History of Creeds | |
Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, Vol. II, The Greek and Latin Creeds | |
Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church | |
Philip Schaff, The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge | |
Thomas Sheehan, The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity | |
Roger Shinn, The Sermon on the Mount | |
Ray C. Stedman, Hebrews: The New Testament Commentary Series | |
H. B. Swete, An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek | |
Henry Wace, A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature | |
John Wesley, Notes on the Bible | |
Joseph Wheless, Forgery in Christianity | |
Joseph Wheless, Is It God's Word? | |
Ellen White, Acts of the Apostles | |
Ellen White, Prophets and Kings |
Greco-Roman Backgrounds
Alexander the Great (356 to 323 BC) | |||||||||
The Hellenistic Kingdoms | |||||||||
Caesar Augustus (31 BC to 14 AD) | |||||||||
The
Early Roman Empire
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Ancient
Greek Religion
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Religion in Hellenist-Roman Times | |||||||||
Emperor Worship | |||||||||
Death and the Afterlife | |||||||||
Greek Mysteries and Eastern Religions | |||||||||
The Dionysiac Mysteries | |||||||||
Mystery Religions and Christianity | |||||||||
Hellenistic Philosophy | |||||||||
Socrates | |||||||||
Plato | |||||||||
Aristotle | |||||||||
Early Stoicism | |||||||||
Stoic Thought | |||||||||
Middle Platonism |
150 BC to 174 AD
Greco-Roman Background to the Emergence of the Church | |
Jewish Background to the Emergence of the Church | |
The Apostolic Era | |
The Close of the Apostolic Era | |
Early Christologies: The Interpretation of Jesus | |
Gentile Christianity in the Second Century AD | |
Christianity and the Roman Government | |
The Apologists |
175 to 324 AD
Gnosticism | |
Origins of Gnosticism | |
Gnostic Literature | |
Characteristics of Gnosticism | |
Gnosticism and the New Testament | |
Marcion | |
Montanism | |
The Catholic Church | |
Irenaeus of Lyon | |
Tertullian | |
The Alexandrian School | |
The Organizational Development of the Church | |
Growth and Persecutions |
325 to 439 AD
The Arian Controversy and the Nicean Council | |
The Council of Constantinople | |
The Germanic Invasions | |
Jerome | |
Augustine |
440 to 1384 AD
Christianity and the Frankish Kingdom | |
Christian Expansion in the Early Middle Ages | |
The Crusades | |
Early Scholasticism | |
Higher Scholasticism | |
John Wyclif |
1385 to 1564 AD
Martin Luther | |
Ulrich Zwingli | |
John Calvin |
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