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THIS PAGE CONTAINS LINKS TO RESOURCES IN HISTORICAL STUDIES- ALL ARE NOT NECESSARILY CHRISTIAN.
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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