The following books and articles are some of those appearing on the Comprehensive Reading List for PhD Students in Historical Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Biblical Foundation
The Hebrew Old Testament
The Greek New Testament
Cross, F.L., et ux. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian ChurchImage may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.Gonzalez, Justo. A History of Christian Thought, revised ed., 3 vols.
Hart, Trevor, ed., The Dictionary of Historical Theology
Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Christian Tradition, 5 vols.
Quasten, Johannes. Patrology, 4 vols.
Schaff, Philip. The Creeds of Christendom, 3 vols.
1. Greek Fathers
Primary Sources
Harvey, Edward R., ed. Christology of the Later Fathers, Library of Christian Classics
Origen. De Principiis.
Richardson, Cyril, ed. Early Christian Fathers Library of Christian Classics
Secondary Sources
Williams, Rowan. Arius: Heresy and Tradition
Articles and/or Short Treatises
Athanasius. Orationes contra Arianos IV, (First Oration).
2. Latin Fathers
Primary Sources
S. L. Greenslade, Early Latin Theology, Library of Christian Classics (Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, Jerome)
Augustine. De Doctrina Christiana
______. De Trinitate.
______. Confessions.
Articles and/or Short Treatises
Augustine. De Natura et Gratia; De Spiritu et Littera, De Gratia et Libero Arbitrio.
3. Medieval
Primary Sources
Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologia, (3a. 16–26, “The One Mediator”)
______. Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 4.
Fairweather, Eugene, ed. A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham. Library of Christian Classics (Cur Deus Homo; excerpt of On the Incarnation; Proslogion; Selections of Lombard, Sentences; Selections of Scotus, Commentary on the Sentences)
Articles and/or Short Treatises
Anselm. De processione Spiritus Sancti.
4. Dissent and Renaissance
Primary Sources
Rupp, E. Gordon, ed. Luther and Erasmus: Free Will and Salvation. Library of Christian Classics
Erasmus, Desiderius. Enchiridion Militis Christiani
Wyclif, John. De Simonia
Articles and/or Short Treatises
Colet, John. “Sermon before Convocation”
Erasmus, Desiderius. Paraclesis
5. Reformation
Primary Sources
G.W. Bromily, ed. Zwingli and Bullinger. Library of Christian Classics
Pauck, Wilhelm, ed. Melanchthon and Bucer. Library of Christian Classics
Calvin, John. Institutio Christianae religionis
Cranmer, Thomas. Defensio Verae et Catholicae de Sacramento.
Luther, Martin. Three Treatises
______. Commentary on Galatians.
Tyndale, William. On the Obedience of a Christian Man
Williams, G.H. Spiritual and Anabaptist Writers, Library of Christian Classics
Secondary Sources
Althaus, Paul. Die Theologie Martin Luthers.
Articles on Calvin and the Reformed Tradition
Gerrish, B.A.“Biblical Authority and the Continental Reformation,” Scottish Journal of Theology 10 (Dec. 1950): 337–60
Kraus, Hans-Joachim. “Calvin’s Exegetical Principles.” Interpretation 31 (January 1977): 8–18. A Translation of “Calvins Exegetical Prinzipien,” Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 79 (1968): 329–41.
Muller, Richard. “The Hermeneutic of Promise and Fulfillment in Calvin’s Exegesis of the Old Testament Prophecies of the Kingdom,” in The Bible in the Sixteenth Century, (Durham: Duke University Press, 1990): 68–82.
Articles on English Reformation Historiography
Dickens, A.G. ‘The Early Expansion of Protestantism in England 1520-1558′, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, 78 (1987), 187-221
_____. ‘The Shape of Anti-clericalism and the English Reformation’, in Politics and Society in Reformation Europe: Essays for Geoffrey Elton on his Sixty-fifth Birthday, ed. by E.I. Kouri and Tom Scott (London: Macmillan, 1987), pp. 379-410
Haigh, Christopher. “Anticlericalism and the English Reformation” History, 68 (1983), 391-407
_____.’Revisionism, the Reformation and the History of English Catholicism’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 36 (1985), 394-405
_____.’The Recent Historiography of the English Reformation’, Historical Journal, 25 (1982), 995-1007
6. Protestant Orthodoxy
Primary Sources
Book of Concord
Ursinus, Zacharias. Explicationes Catecheticas D. Zachariae Ursini
Secondary Sources
Barth, Karl. Theologie der reformierten Bekenntnisschriften.
7. Puritanism
Primary Sources
Ames, William. Medulla Theologica.
Browne, Robert. A Treatise of Reformation Without Tarrying for Any.
Owen, John. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ.
8. Pietism
Primary Sources
Spener, Jacob. Pia Desideria
9. Beginnings of Evangelicalism
Primary Sources
Edwards, Jonathan. Freedom of the Will
Articles and/or Short Treatises
Wesley, John. “A Plain Account of Christian Perfection,” “Predestination Calmly Considered.”
10. Liberalism
Primary Sources
Harnack, Adolf. Das Wesen des Christentums.
Schleiermacher, Friedrich. Der christliche
Glaube______. Reden über die Religion.
Secondary Sources
Barth, Karl. Protestantische Theologie im 19. Jahrhundert.
11. Baptists
Primary Sources
Dagg, John L. Manual of TheologyImage may be NSFW.
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Dana, H.E. Manual of Ecclesiology
Secondary Sources
George, Timothy, and David Dockery. Theologians of the Baptist Tradition.
Articles and/or Short Treatises
George, Timothy. “Southern Baptist Ghosts,” First Things 93 (May 1999), 17–24.
May, Lynn E., Jr. “Foundations Laid by Luther Rice,” Baptist History and Heritage 8 (April 1973)
Moore, LeRoy. ”Crazy Quilts: Southern Baptist Patterns of the Church,” Foundations 29 (1977): 12–35.
Shurden, Walter B. and Lori Redwine Varnadoe. “The Origins of the Southern Baptist Convention: A Historiographical Study,” Baptist History and Heritage 37 (Winter 2002).
Yarnell, Malcolm. “Changing Baptist Concepts of Royal Priesthood: John Smyth and Edgar Young Mullins,” in The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism, ed. by Deryck Lovegrove (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 236-52.
12. American Christianity
Primary Sources
Hodge, Charles. Systematic Theology. Vol. 1.
Machen, J. Gresham. Christianity & Liberalism
Secondary Sources
Hatch, Nathan. The Democratization of American Christianity
Articles and/or Short Treatises
Warfield, B.B. “The Biblical Idea of Revelation,” “The Biblical Idea of Inspiration,” “Inspiration and Criticism,” “The Spirit of God in the Old Testament” in The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield.