Church History and Historical Theology

Contents

• Patristic Theology.
• Church History I (New Testament to 1200).
• Church History II (1200-1600).
• Other related links.

Patristic Theology

• The Akathist Hymn to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
• Apostolic Fathers. Lightfoot's translation. [13K text, 123K graphics].
• The Didache (late 1st C.)
  • The Didache, English translation.
  • The Didache, or The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (at american.edu)

• Pope St. Clement of Rome (pope 92 - 101)

  • First Epistle to the Corinthians (c. 96; at american.edu)

  • Second Epistle (c. 150; at Penn): Attributed to Clement:

• St. Ignatius of Antioch (d. c. 107). About St. Ignatius: From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
  Epistles of Ignatius to the following communities ( click here for the links at CCEL)

  • Epistle to the Ephesians

  • Epistle to the Magnesians

  • Epistle to the Philadelphians

  • Epistle to the Trallians

  • Epistle to the Romans

  • Epistle to the Smyrnaeans: 

  • Epistle to Polycarp

• St. Barnabas: Some links at CCEL refering to early writing of St.Barnabas

• St. Polycarp (c. 69 - c. 155). About Polycarp: The Martyrdom of Polycarp (2nd century)

  • Epistle of Polycarp CCEL (c. 130)

• Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 10.96-97. (111-113). Earliest reference to Christians from a Roman perspective.
  • Pliny and the Christians. Latin text of Pliny's letter to Trajan and the emperor's response, followed by William Harris's English translation. Harris is a professor emeritus of Middlebury College, with a background in Classics.
  • Pliny and Trajan on the Christians. English only. Translator not named.
  • Pliny/Trajan Correspondence. Latin based on Selatie Edgar Stout's edition of Pliny's Epistulae, and K.C. Hanson's intentionally jarring English translation, in facing columns. Hanson has a Ph.D. in Religion.

• St. Justin Martyr (c. 100 - c. 165). Authorship undisputed: CCEL

  • First Apology

  • Second Apology 

  • Dialogue with Trypho, a Jew

  • From the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 : About Justin Martyr

• Hermas (2nd century)

  • The Shepherd of Hermas: American, EWTN

• Mathetes (2nd century)

  • Epistle to Diognetus CCEL c.160

• Tatian the Syrian (2nd century)

  • Address to the Greeks, and Fragments (at EWTN)

• Athenagoras of Athens (late 2nd century)

  • A Plea for the Christians (c. 177; at ETWN)

  • On the Resurrection of the Dead (c. 177; at ETWN)

• St. Irenaeus (late 2nd century): About Irenaeus From the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913

  • Against Heresies at CCEL

  • Fragments of writings of Ireneaus

• Theophilus of Antioch (late 2nd century)

  • To Autolycus (c. 180; at ETWN)

• St. Perpetua (d. 203)

  • The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity (at Fordham)

• Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 - c. 215)

  • Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) (at EWTN)

  • The Tutor (Paedagogus) (at EWTN)

  • The Miscellanies (Stromata): I-II, III-V, VI-VIII (at EWTN)

  • Fragments (at EWTN)

  • Who is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved? (at EWTN)

• Tertullian (c. 155 - c. 220). Biographical page and writings at American University.

  • Tertullian, On Baptism (c. 200)

  Minucius Felix (contemporary of Tertullian)

  • Article from Catholic Encyclopedia of America

• Hippolytus of Rome (c. 170 - c. 236)

  • The Refutation of All Heresies (at New Advent)

  • The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus: Exegetical (at New Advent)

• Origen (184 - 254)

  • Commentary on the life of Origen plus links to his work

INDEX TO OTHER PATRISTIC RESOURCES ON NET

• Ecole Initiative: Early Church History on the Web (at Evansville)
• Writings of Church Fathers/Doctors/Saints (at American University)

• Selected writings of the Apostolic Fathers (from UPenn Gopher)

• The Early Church Fathers (multi-volume set at CCEL)

• St. Pachomius Library (on the Orthodox Page)

Church History I: New Testament to 1200

• Pope St. Anterus (pope 235 - 236)

  • Epistle on the Translation of Bishops and Episcopal Seats (at New Advent)

• Pope St. Fabian (pope 236 - 250)

  • Article from Catholic Encyclopedia about the life of St.Fabian

• St. Cyprian (c. 200 - 258)

  • See this page at American University.

• Commodianus (fl. c. 240)

  • Introductory Note to the Works of Commodianus

• Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 260-340), The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine. With quite a lengthy prolegomena by Ernest Cushing Richardson. Both from A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, 2nd series, vol. 1. If you wish, you may skip the background material and go directly to the text of Eusebius's Life of Constantine [91K].

• St. Athanasius (c. 295 - 373)

  • Article from Enyclopedia Brittanica about the life of Athanasius

  • A chronology of his life, letters, epistle to Ruffinian; links from CCEL

• Galerius, Edict of Toleration (311)
• Constantine, Edict of Milan (313)

• St. Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 315 - c. 386)

  • The Procatechesis or Prologue to the Catechetical Lectures (at ocf.org)

  • First Catechetical Lecture (at ocf.org)

  • Second Catechetical Lecture (at ocf.org)

• St. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 - c. 394)

  • See this page at Black Hills State University.

• St. John Chrysostom (c. 346 - 407). Biography and writings at: http://www.johnchrysostom.org

• St. Jerome (c. 347 - 420)

  • Vulgate Bible (at OBI Gopher)

• St. John Cassian (c. 360 - 435)

  • Article from Catholic Encyclopedia

• St. Patrick (c. 389 - 461)

  • Aricle from the Christian Archive by Dr.Ralph Wilson

  • Hymn on St. Patrick by Secundinus (in Ireland)

• Augustine
  •  The Confessions
  • De civitate Dei (413-426)
    • La cité de Dieu. [54K text, 131K graphics]. French translation by Saisset, edited by Raulx. Each book in its own file.
    • La Città di Dio. Italian translation, courtesy of Città Nuova Editrice. Uses frames.
    • City of God. Marcus Dods translation, from A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, first series, vol. 2. Each book in its own file.
    • City of God. Marcus Dods translation, from NPNF, vol. 2. Lacks notes. Split into small files of about five chapters each.
    • De Civitate Dei contra Paganos libri viginti duo. In Latin. Migne PL 41. Uses frames.
  • De Gestis Pelagii (417)
  • Enchiridion (421-423)
  • On Baptism, Against the Donatists (400-401)
  • On Christian Doctrine (c. 395-426)

  • Sermons of St. Augustine in Latin

  • Web page for St. Augustine maintained by J.J. O'Donnell professor of the classics at Penn. University

  • Collection of links for the works of St.Augustine

  • James J. O'Donnell, Augustine's Confessions: Paper Guide. Tips for reading the Confessions, and approaches to choosing a topic for a paper. This method is applicable to other texts as well. O'Donnell is provost at Georgetown University.

• Pope St. Leo I ("the Great") (pope 440 - 461)

  • Letters of Pope Leo I at CCEL

• St. Benedict (480 - 547)

  • St. John Abbey ( Collegeville, MN) web page - will tell you all you need to know about St. Benedict and his rule

• Cassiodorus (c. 490 - c. 585)

  • Biographical data and writings of Cassiodorus - maintained by Dr. James O Donnel professor  of classics at the University of Pennsylvannia

• Pope St. Gregory I ("the Great)  (c. 540?-604, became pope 590)
  • De vita et miraculis venerabilis Benedicti. Book II of the Dialogues (593-594).
    • The Second Book of the Dialogues, containing the Life and Miracles of St. Benedict of Nursia. Local file.
    • La vie de saint Benôit. French translation. [148K text, 145K graphics].
  • Moralia in Iob, Books I-V. English translation.

  • see also:  Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia

• Boethius (early 6th C.), The Consolation of Philosophy. Latin and English available.
• Alcuin of York (c. 732-804). A brief biography.
• The Donation of Constantine (c. 750-800)
  • La "Donatio Constantini", Spanish translation. With a brief introduction.
  • The Donation of Constantine. With brief introduction. Ernest F. Henderson translation.
• Einhard, Vita Karoli Magni. Life of Charlemagne, by an admiring contemporary.
  • The Life of Charlemagne. English translation. [66K].
  • Vita Karoli Magni. Latin. [56K].

• St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)

  • Writings of St.Anselm - Proslogium, Monologium, Cur Deus Homo

• St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153)

  • Some letters of St. Bernard (CCEL)

• Peter Abelard (1079-1142), Abaelardi ad amicum suum consolatoria epistola, also known as Historia calamitatum
  • Abaelardi ad amicum suum consolatoria epistola, Latin. [84K].
  • Historia calamitatum, English. With a brief introduction. [116K].
• Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 10.96-97. (111-113).
  • Pliny and the Christians. Latin text of Pliny's letter to Trajan and the emperor's response, followed by William Harris's English translation.
  • Pliny and Trajan on the Christians. English only. Translator not named.
  • Pliny/Trajan Correspondence. Latin based on Selatie Edgar Stout's edition of Pliny's Epistulae, and K.C. Hanson's intentionally jarring English translation, in facing columns.
• Bibliography on Women in Byzantium. [57K text, 36K graphic]. Updated annually. Edited by Thalia Gouma-Peterson, professor of art at Wooster.
• The Charta Caritatis (1119)
  • Carta de Caridad, in Spanish.
  • Charta Caritatis, English translation. Local file.

Church History II: 1200 to 1600

• St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 - 1274)

  • Thomas Aquinas in English has the most complete listing of his texts, both in electronic and print formats. See also the following links:

    • Of God and His Creatures (abridged translation of Summa Contra Gentiles)

    • On Being and Essence (HTML at Fordham)

    • On the Eternity of the World (HTML at Fordham)

    • On the Principles of Nature (HTML at Toronto)

    • Summa Theologica (HTML at knight.org)

  • See also A Companion to the Summa by Walter Farrell, OP

  • About St. Thomas Aquinas:

    • Thomas Institute (in the Netherlands)

    • The Aristotle archive at Notre Dame has a number of articles and books on Thomas Aquinas and Thomism.

• Boniface VIII (c. 1235 - 1303, became pope 1294). See this page at American University.
  • Clericis Laicos (1296). "Antiquity teaches us that laymen are in a high degree hostile to the clergy." Excommunicates laity who tax clergy or who obtain church property.
  • Unam Sanctam (1302). It would be hard to outdo this statement of papal authority.
    • Unam Sanctam, English translation. With some background information.
    • Unam Sanctam, Spanish translation. With a brief introduction.

• St. Catherine of Siena (1347 - 1380)

  • Article from EWTN

•  Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 - 1471)

  • Imitatio Christi, attributed to Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471). Immensely popular book is an exemplar of the devotio moderna.
    • The Imitation of Christ - Electronic Version at Cyber Library
    • L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ. 1824 French translation by Lamennais, with his reflections after each chapter.
    • The Imitation of Christ. English translation by Aloysius Croft and Harold Bolton.

• Nicholas of Cusa (1401 - 1464)

  • "Where is He That is Born King of the Jews?" (1456; tr. by L. Miller; HTML at SUNY Stony Brook)

• El Camino de Santiago. [4K text, 59K graphics]. Go on a virtual pilgrimage! The Way of St. James, once it crosses over into Spain. This site was created by and for undergraduate students in a Spanish course at UCLA. Part English, part Spanish. Clickable map does not always work.
• Council of Constance
  • Haec Sancta (1415)
    • Haec Sancta, Spanish translation. Full text, with a brief introduction.
    • Sacrosancta (1415). English translation by J.H. Robinson. Appears to be an excerpt from the beginning of Haec Sancta. Conciliarism. A general council has more authority than the pope.
  • Frequens (1417). Calls for a church council every ten years.
• Margery Kempe
  • The Book of Margery Kempe. In Middle English. Edited by Lynn Staley. This edition originally published by TEAMS in 1996.
  • Treatise of Contemplation. This fragment of Margery Kempe's Book (c. 1430) was all that was known of her for over 400 years.
• Pius II, Execrabilis (1459). Condemned anyone who called for a church council.

• Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466 - 1536)

  • See this page at Sewanee.

• The Tyndale New Testament (1526). History and photo of rare book in the collection of the British Library.
• Pope Paul III (1468 - 1549, became pope 1534)

• See this page at American University

• St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491 - 1556)

  • Spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola (CCEL)

  •  Jesuit homepage

• St. Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582)

  • Teresa of Avila, Autobiography. (1564-1565). E. Allison Peers translation. With translator's introduction and notes. Also concordances and word frequency lists. Each chapter in its own file.

  • The Tersian Carmel in Austria  article describing the life of St. Teresa and links to a complete electronic version of the Way of Perfection.

  • Interior Castle (CCEL)

• Tal Howard, Charisma and History: The Case of Münster, Westphalia, 1534-1535. Originally published in Essays in History, vol. 35 (1993).
• The Hutterian Brethren. [8K text, 122K graphics]. The Decker Colony high school class in Manitoba created this site introducing Hutterian history, doctrine, ecclesiastical structure, and way of life.
• The King's Bible (1569-1573). Also known as the Polyglot. Description and photo of this monument of humanist scholarship and the printer's art. [5K text, 56K graphics].
• Martin Luther
  • 95 Theses (1517)
    • Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, more commonly known as The 95 Theses, English only, HTML.
    • 95 Theses, Latin only, HTML.
    • 95 Theses, Latin and English, plain text.
  • An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520)
  • Tractatus de libertate Christiana (1520)
    • On the Freedom of a Christian.
    • Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen. In German.
• Leo X, Exsurge Domine (1520). English translation of excerpts. Condemns Luther as a "wild boar."
• John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536-1559).
• John Calvin and Cardinal Jacopo Sadoleto, A Reformation Debate (1539). Sadoleto's "Letter of Concern" and Calvin's response.

• St. John of the Cross (1542 - 1591)

  • Tersian Carmel in Austria - collection of the works of St.John

  • The Living Flame of Love (HTML in Austria)

  • Sayings of Light and Love (HTML in Austria)

• Council of Trent, Decree on Justification. Sixth Session, 13 January, 1547.
  • Decree on Justification. English translation. With anathemas, and the Decree on Reform issued at the same session. [53K].
  • Decreto sobre la justificación. Spanish translation. With the Canons on justification, and the Decree on Reform issued at the same session. [55K text, 21K graphics].
• The King's Bible (1569-1573). Also known as the Polyglot. Description and photo of this monument of humanist scholarship and the printer's art. [5K text, 56K graphics].
• The Book of Concord (1580). Includes the Augsburg Confession, Martin Luther's Small Catechism and Large Catechism, and the Smalcald Articles.

• Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, aka Nicholas Herman (1661 - 1691)

  • The Practice of the Presence of God

• Ignatius of Loyola
  • Autobiografía de San Ignacio de Loyola (1553-1555). "As told to" Luis Gonçalves da Camara. [134K].
  • Spiritual Exercises (1522-1548)
    • Ejercicios espirituales, texto autógrafo, Spanish. [185K].
    • Spiritual Exercises, English translation.

• Pope Benedict XIV (1675 - 1758, became pope 1740)

  • See this page at American University.

• Blaise Pascal

  • Pensees at Cyber Library

• St. Alphonsus de Liguori (1696 - 1787)

  • Uniformity with God's will translated by Thomas W. Tobin CSSR

• Pope Gregory XVI (1765 - 1846, became pope 1831)

  • See this page at American University.

• Pope Pius IX (1792 - 1878, became pope 1846)

  • See this page at American University.

• Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890, received into Catholic Church 1845)

  • See this page at ic.net.

  • Newmans Apologia Pro Vita Sua (CCEL)

• Pope Leo XIII (1810 - 1903, became pope 1878)

  • See this page at American University.

• St. Pius X (1835 - 1914, became pope 1903)

  • See this page at American University.

• Pope Benedict XV (1854 - 1922, became pope 1914)

  • See this page at American University.

• Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939, became pope 1922)

  • See this page at American University.

• Hilaire Belloc (1870 - 1953)

  • Survivals and New Arrivals (1929; at EWTN)

  • The Great Heresies (1930; at EWTN)

  • Papers of a Pariah (1907)

• G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936, received into Catholic Church 1922)

  • Heretics (1905; Gutenberg text)

  • Additional writings (on various topics; courtesy On-Line Books Page)

• Pope Pius XII (1876 - 1958, became pope 1939)

  • See this page at American University.

• Blessed Titus Brandsma (1881 - 1942)

  • See this page by Bro. Charlie in Arizona.

• Pope John XXIII (1881 - 1963, became pope 1958)

  • See this page at American University.

• Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973). About Jacques Maritain: Jacques Maritain Center (at Notre Dame)

  • Reflections on America (1958)

  • Transcriptions of Jacques Maritain Papers

• St. Teresa Benedicta (aka Edith Stein), OCD (1891 - 1942)

  • The Hidden Life: Hagiographic Essays, Meditations, Spiritual Texts (in Austria)

• Florent E. Franke (1895 - 1993)

  • Hail, Mary! Six Thousand Titles and Praises of Our Lady (1983)

• Pope Paul VI (1897 - 1978, became pope 1963)

  • See this page at American University.

• Dorothy Day (1897 - 1980, received into Catholic Church 1927)

  • Dorothy Day Library on the Web (at the Catholic Worker)

• Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson (1871 - 1914, received into Catholic Church 1903)

  • See this page at Notre Dame.

• Walter Farrell, O.P. (1901 - 1953)

  • A Companion to the Summa (1938-1942)

• John Courtney Murray (1904 - 1967)

  • Religious Liberty: Catholic Struggles With Pluralism (1993 collection)

• Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)

  • Two talks reprinted in the 1995 edition of Eberhard Arnold's Why We Live in Community:

    • Building Community on God's Love (1968)

    • Community, Politics, and Contemplation (1968)

• Pope John Paul II (born 1920, became pope 1978)

  • See this page at American University.

• Augustine Ichiro Okumura, OCD (born 1923)

  • Awakening to Prayer (1994)

• Thomas J. Reese, SJ (born 1945)

  • Archbishop: Inside the Power Structure of the American Catholic Church (1989)

  • Episcopal Conferences: Historical, Canonical, and Theological Studies (1989)

• Terrye Newkirk (born 1946)

  • The Mantle of Elijah : The Martyrs of Compiègne as Prophets of the Modern Age

• Karl Rahner

  • Commentary on Christian Foundations by Mark Fisher

• Abby Stoner, Sisters Between: Gender and the Medieval Beguines (1993). [57K].

Other Medieval History Resources:

Guide to Medieval Christian Spirituality (at Toronto) 

Internet Medieval Sourcebook (at Fordham)
Jesuits and the Sciences, 1600-1800 (exhibit at Loyola) 

Local Catholic: A Church History and Genealogy Research Guide and Directory (by the Mensch family) 

A short hypertext history of Catholicism in Great Britain (from Brown)

The Notre Dame Archives Catalog lists a large number of resources on Catholic history in the US available off-line at Notre Dame.

Other links pertinent to church history and historical theology

• The Amish Homepage. Links for serious researchers, mixed with a large dollop of humor, from a bunch of students at Oklahoma Christian University.
• The Amish, the Mennonites, and "The Plain People". Aimed at tourists. Outsider describes the life of the Old Order Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. With photos. [18K text, 134K graphics].
• L'Association des amis de St Jacques de Compostelle, Les chemins de St Jacques qui passent en Europe. Color map [105K jpeg] of the pilgrimage routes on the Way of St. James, from Aix-la-Chapelle to Paris.
• Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World
• The Origin of the Mennonite Church
• L.M. Berkowitz, Jewish-American History on the Web. [13K text, 58K graphics]. A collection of 19th-century documents, especially strong on the U.S. Civil War. Also links to many Jewish historical web sites.
• A Brief History of Scriptoria and the Evolution of the Book (1996).
• Joseph Brusher, Popes Through the Ages. In chronological order. Brief summaries of the pontificates of every pope from St. Peter to John Paul II.
• Horace Bushnell, Christian Nurture (1876). [92K text, 5K graphics]. Very influential. Criticizes revivalism's emphasis on dramatic emotional conversions, suggests that children raised in a Christian atmosphere may grow in genuine Christian faith without the need for such a crisis.
• Stephen Colwell, New Themes for the Protestant Clergy. 2nd ed., revised, 1853. [92K text, 5K graphics]. A landmark of the Social Gospel movement.
• The Complete List of Popes. Links to biographies from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia for popes through Pius X. Biographical profiles for later popes are taken from Joseph Brusher's "Popes Through the Ages."
• Gerald Darring, Theology Library: Church History. [42K text, 44K graphics]. Directory of Internet resources. Darring is a high school religion teacher.
• A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature. Edited by Henry Wace and William C. Piercy. From the Apostolic Fathers through the end of the 6th century. Originally published in 1911. Invalid HTML, but still usable.
• Documentos para el estudio de la historia de la Iglesia. Primary and secondary texts for the study of medieval Church history and the history of the Church in Latin America. In Spanish.
• Dorothy Day Library on the Web. An online archive of Dorothy Day's writings. Browse or search. This site also offers biographical information on Day, a photo gallery, and a small list of links to other sites related to Day and/or to the Catholic Worker movement.
• Ecclesiastical History List (ECCHST-L). Home page for this Internet mailing list. Links to online resources for church history, seldom updated.
• Gregory of Nyssa Homepage.
• Guide to Early Church Documents
• Paul Halsall, Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Saints' Lives. [42K text, 20K graphics]. New Testament era through the Middle Ages, with helpful links for hagiography.
• For History of Christian Spirituality, please see also the Spirituality page.
• Alan Humm, Testimonium Flavianum (1996). Discussion of probable tampering with the only direct mention of Jesus in the works of Josephus (c. 37-c. 97). Humm is a graduate student in Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Joseph Edmund Hutton, A History of the Moravian Church, 2nd. ed. (1909). From John Hus to about 1857. Written on the popular level. Plain text at Project Gutenberg.
• George P. Landow, Roman Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Great Britain. Landow is a professor of English and Art History at Brown University, and a leading exponent of hypertext theory.
• Xavier Lequeux, Nazianzos: The Gregory of Nazienzen Homepage. In French. None of St. Gregory the Theologian's works are here. The site is notable chiefly for its multilingual bibliographies.
• Thomas L. Long, Julian of Norwich's "Christ as Mother" and Medieval Constructions of Gender (1995). Long is an associate professor of English at Thomas Nelson Community College.
• Robert Longman
  • Movements and Schools of Thought in Pentecostalism (1996)
  • Pentecostalism After Asuza: Some Notes (1997). Picks up where Pentecostalist History leaves off, with brief histories of some Holiness and Pentecostal churches formed after the Asuza Street revival, including the Oneness ("Jesus Only") movement.
  • Pentecostalist History (1998). From 17th-century pre- or proto-Pentecostalism to 1908.
• James MacCaffrey, History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution (1914). Panoramic two-volume work. Available online in plain text, or for download as zip files.
  • History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution, Volume I. European continent. Covers the fifteenth century through the Jansenist controversy.
  • History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution, Volume II. British Isles. From the situation in England on the eve of the Reformation to the establishment of Charter Schools in Ireland.
• Gary Macy, A Guide to Thirteenth Century Theologians. Dominican, Franciscan, and secular masters at Paris and Oxford. Gives dates, list of extant works, and bibliographies of recent secondary literature. Macy is a professor of Religious Studies at the University of San Diego.
• Material History of American Religion Project
• Medieval Feminist Index. [3K text, 57K graphics]. Searchable bibliography of recent essays, conference papers, and book reviews relating to women, sexuality, and gender in the period from 450 to 1500.
• Jacques-Paul Migne (ed.), Patrologia Latina (1st ed., 1844-1855).  Surpassed in some cases by more recent scholarship, but still very often used as the standard in citations of patristic authors. Full text of all volumes of the Migne Patrologia Latina, along with apparatus and indexes, now available for searching or browsing online.
• Military Orders. Part of ORB. Includes primary sources, original essays, and links.
• For monastic history, please see also the Monastic Studies page.
• Maria Monk (d. 1850), Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk (1835). The most infamous anti-Catholic text of the nineteenth century. Searchable page images.
• John Courtney Murray (d. 1967), Religious Liberty: Catholic Struggles with Pluralism. Originally published by Westminster/John Knox Press (1993), a collection of four essays. Does the American experience of freedom of religion have anything to offer the universal Church? Silenced in the 1950s, Murray influenced Dignitatis Humanae Personae, in which Vatican II endorsed religious liberty.
• John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
  • Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864). [548K].
  • An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1878 ed.). Need I say more?
  • On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine (1859). Newman's thought was that the sensus fidelium can be a true barometer of orthodoxy. He points in particular to the Arian controversy, on which he was an expert. [112K].
• Project Canterbury. [10K text, 95K graphic]. Archive of online Anglo-Catholic texts. Already has about half of The Christian Year and most of Tracts for the Times, as well as other historical texts related to the Oxford Movement.
• William Roper (1496-1578), The Life of Sir Thomas More. [117K]. Roper was More's son-in-law.
• For saints' lives, please see the Liturgical Studies section on saints.
• Philip Schaff, America: A Sketch of the Political, Social, and Religious Character of the United States of America, in Two Lectures (1855). [70K text, 5K graphics]. Asserts that Americans are a religious people; highlights Puritan influence.
• S.S. Schmucker, The Church of the Redeemer, as Developed within the General Synod of the Lutheran Church in America. 2nd ed., 1868. [68K text, 5K graphics]. The controversial Schmucker simultaneously defends the Scriptural basis of his brand of Lutheranism and urges union between Protestant churches.
• Fray Junípero Serra (1713-1784)
• Sulpitius Severus (c. 363-420), Vita beati Martini. Along with St. Athanasius' Life of Antony, one of the most popular and influential early accounts of a saint's life.
  • Life of St. Martin. Local file.
  • Vie de saint Martin. [65K text, 26K graphic].
• David Swing, Francis Lanfrey Patton, and Charles L. Thompson, The World's Edition of the Great Presbyterian Conflict. Patton charged Swing with heresy. He was acquitted. This book includes the sermons on which Patton's accusations were based, along with trial records. The official edited version of The Trial of the Rev. David Swing, published by the Presbytery of Chicago [68K text, 5K graphics] is also available on the Net. Both were published in 1874.