This list includes both scholarly and popular works from the time of Christ through the Reformation era. 

Multi-volume works are listed as a single entry.

Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (Oxford Univ. Press, 1998).

Michaael D. Coogan, ed., The Oxford History of the Biblical World (Oxford Univ. Press, 1998).

Peter Richardson, Herod the Great (Fortress Press, 1999).

Paul L. Maier, Josephus: The Essential Works (Kregel, 1988, 1994).

Everett Ferguson, Backgrounds of Early Christianity (Eerdmans, 1993).

 

N. T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus (Eerdmans, 1996).

John T. Meier, A Marginal Jew. Three volumes (Doubleday, 1991, 1994, 2001).

Luke Timothy Johnson, The Writings of the New Testament (Fortress Press, 1986).

Bruce M. Metzger, The New Testament: Its Background, Growth and Content (Abingdon Press, 1983).

Ann Wroe, Pontius Pilate (Random House, 1999). 

 

 

J. K. Elliott, ed., The Apocryphal New Testament (Clarendon Press, 1993).

James M. Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library (Harper/San Francisco, 1978, 1988).

Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (Vintage Books, 1979).

 

 

E. A. Livingstone, ed., The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford Univ. Press, 2006).

Michael Walsh, ed., Dictionary of Christian Biography (A Michael Glazier Book, 2001).  Dictionary of Christian Biography

John Bowden, Encyclopedia of Christianity (Oxford Univ. Press, 2005).

Tim Dowley, ed., The Baker Atlas of Christian History (Baker Books, 2004).

Henry Bettenson and Chris Maunder, eds., Documents of the Christian Church (Oxford Univ. Press, 1943, 1999).  

 

 

 

Tim Dowley, ed., The Baker History of the Church. Six volumes (Baker Books, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). The Baker History of the Church Vol 1-2

Justo L. Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity. One volume (Prince Press/Hendrickson and HarperCollins, 2001).

Earl E. Cairns, Christianity Through the Centuries. Third Edition, Revised and Expanded (Zondervan, 1994).

Paul L. Maier, Eusebius: The Church History (Kregel, 1999).

 

 

 

Justo L. Gonzalez, A History of Christian Thought. Three volumes (Abingdon Press, 1970, 1971, 1975).

David W. Bercot, ed., A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs (Hendrickson, 1998).

J. N. D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines. Revised Edition (Prince Press/Hendrickson, 1960, 2003).

 

 

 

H. W. Crocker, III, Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church (Forum, 2001).

 

Tim Dowley, ed., The Baker History of the Church, Volume 1. (See above: "General Histories.")  The Baker History of the Church Vol 1-2

Paul L. Maier, Eusebius: The Church History. (See above: "General Histories.")

F. F. Bruce, Apostle of the Heart Set Free. The Apostle Paul. (Eerdmans, 1977).

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, Paul: A Critical Life (Oxford Univ. Press, 1998).

John Painter, Just James: The Brother of Jesus in History and Tradition (Abingdon/Fortress, 1999).

 

 

 

Tim Dowley, ed., The Baker History of the Church, Volume 1. (See above: "General Histories.")  The Baker History of the Church Vol 1-2

Paul L. Maier, Eusebius: The Church History. (See above: "General Histories.")

Walter H. Wagner, After the Apostles: Christianity in the Second Century (Fortress Press, 1994).

Robin Lane Fox, Pagans and Christians (Harper/San Francisco, 1986).

 

 

 

Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds., Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Writings of the Fathers Down To AD 325. 9 volumes (Hendrickson, 1994). Ante Nicene Fathers, Volume 1: Apostolic Fathers (Early Church Fathers Ser.)

Cyril C. Richardson, Early Christian Fathers (Collier Books/Macmillan Publishing, 1970).

Han von Campenhausen, The Fathers of the Church (Hendrickson, 1998).

David W. Bercot, ed., A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs: A Reference Guide to More Than 700 Topics Discussed by the Early Church Fathers (Hendrickson, 1998).

Eric Osborn, Irenaeus of Lyons (Cambridge Univ. Press).

Henri Crouzel, Origen (T. & T. Clark, 1999). Origen/the Life and Thought of the First Great Theologian

Oliver Davies, Cyprian Smith and Tim Witherow, Born To New Life: Cyprian of Carthage (New City Press, 1992). Born to New Life: Cyprian of Carthage (Spirituality of the Fathers)  

 

 

 

Tim Dowley, ed., The Baker History of the Church, Volume 2. (See above: "General Histories.").

Paul L. Maier, Eusebius: The Church History (See above: "General Histories.")

Michael Grant, Constantine the Great: The Man and His Times (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993). Constantine the Great: The Man and His Times

Stephen Williams and Gerard Friell, Theodosius: The Empire at Bay (Yale Univ. Press).

 

 

 

Tim Dowley, ed., The Baker History of the Church, Volume 2. (See above: "General Histories.")

F. F. Bruce, The Spreading Flame (Eerdmans, 1958, 1979)

Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization (Doubleday, 1995).

Hans von Campenhausen, The Fathers of the Church. (See above: "Ante-Nicene Church Fathers.")

David W. Bercot, ed. A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs. (See above: Ante-Nicene Church Fathers.")

Alvyn Peterson, Athanasius (Geoffrey Chapman, 1995).

J. N. D. Kelly, Golden Mouth: The Story of John Crysostom (Baker Books, 1998).

Neil B. McLynn, Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in the Christian Capital (Univ. of California Press).
 

J. N. D. Kelly, Jerome: His Life, Writings, and Controversies (Hendrickson, 1998).

Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography. New Edition (Univ. of California Press, 2000).

Henry Chadwick, Augustine (Oxford Univ. Press, 1986).

 

 

 

Stephen B. Clark, Man and Woman in Christ (Servant Books, 1980). Man and Woman in Christ: An Examination of the Roles of Men and Women in Light of Scripture and the Social Sciences

Elizabeth A. Clark, Women In the Early Church: Message of the Fathers of the Church (Michael Glazier, 1983).
Ben Witherington, Women In the Earliest Churches (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988).

Ruth A. Tucker and Walter Liefeld, Daughters of the Church (Zondervan/Academie Books, 1987).

 

 

John W. Kennedy, The Torch of the Testimony (Christian Books, 1963).

E. H. Broadbent, The Pilgrim Church (Gospel Folio Press, 1931, 1999).

 

 

 

Helen Waddell, The Desert Fathers (Vintage, 1998).

Owen Chadwick, Western Asceticism (Westminister, 1958).

Benedicta Ward, The Lives of the Desert Fathers (Cistercian, 1980).

Robert C. Gregg, ed., Athanasius: The Life of Antony (Paulist Press, 1980).

Gregory the Great, The Life of Saint Benedict. Translated by Adalbert de Vogue (St. Bede's Press).  

 

 

 

Tim Dowley, ed., The Baker History of the Church, Volume 3. (See above: "General Histories.")

Carl A. Volz, The Medieval Church (Abingdon, 1997).

Adrian Bredero, Christendom and Christianity in the Middle Ages (Eerdmans, 1994).

Brian Tierney and Sidney Painter, Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Fifth Edition (McGraw/Hill, 1992).

Brian Tierney, The Middle Ages: Volume 1: Sources of Medieval History (McGraw/Hill, 1992).

George Holmes, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe (Oxford Univ. Press, 1988).
 

Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Knopf, 1984).  

 

 

 

Eamon Duffy, Saints & Sinners: A History of the Popes (Yale Univ. Press, 1999).

Claudio Rendina, The Popes: Histories and Secrets. Translated by Paul D. McCusker (Seven Locks Press, 1992)

Michael Walsh, The Conclave: A Sometimes Secret and Occasionally Bloody History of Papal Elections (Sheed & Ward, 2003).

 

R. A. Markus, Gregory the Great and His World (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998).

 

 

 

Timothy Ware, The Orthdox Church (Penguin/Putnam, 1991).

Daniel Clendenin, Eastern Orthodox Christianity: A Western Perspective (Baker/Revell, 1994).

 

 

 

Johnathan Riley-Smith, The Crusades: A Short History (Yale Univ. Press, 1987).

Hans Eberhard Mayer, The Crusades. Second Edition (Oxford Univ. Press, 1988, 1996).

John France, Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994).

Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Schocken Books, 1984).

Desmond Seward,The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders (Penguin, 1995).  

 

 

 

Gillian R. Evans, Bernard of Clairvaux (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999).

Adrian House, Francis of Assisi: A Revolutionary Life (HiddenSpring, 2000).

William H. Shannon, Anselm: The Joy of Faith (Crossroad, 1999).

M. T. Clanchy, Abelard: A Medieval Life (Blackwell, 1999)

 

G. K. Chesteron, Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Francis of Assisi (Ignatius)

 

 

 

G. R. Evans, John Wyclif: Myth and Reality (IVP Academic, 2005).

Lisa Jardine, Erasmus, Man of Letters (Princeton Univ. Press, 1995).

 

 

 

Tim Dowley, ed., The Baker History of the Church, Volume 4. (See above: "General Histories.")

Harold J. Grimm, The Reformation Era, 1500-1650. Second Edition (MacMillan, 1973). The Reformation Era, 1500-1650

Diarmaid MacCullouch, The Reformation: A History (Viking/Penguin, 2004).

Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed., The Reformation: A Narrative History Related by Contemporary Observers and Participants (Baker, 1964). THE REFORMATION a Narrative History Related By Contemporary Observers and Participants

 

 

 

Heiko Oberman, Luther (Random House, 1982).

Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (Abingdon, 1986).

David Daniell, William Tyndale: A Biography (Yale Univ. Press).

John T. McNeill, The History and Character of Calvinism (Oxford Univ. Press, 1954, 1979).

 

T. H. L. Parker, John Calvin: A Biography (Westminster Press, 1975). 

 

 

 

A. G. Dickens, The English Reformation. Second Edition (Penn State Univ. Press, 1989). The English Reformation

R. T. Kendall, Calvin and English Calvinism to 1649 (Paternoster, 1997). CBD

 

 

 

George H. Williams, The Radical Reformation (Westminster Press, 1962).

William R. Estep, The Anabaptist Story (Eerdmans, 1963, 1975).

Leonard Verduin, The Reformers and Their Stepchildren (Baker, 1964).

Walter Klassen, Anabaptism: Neither Catholic Nor Protestant (Conrad Press, 1981). Anabaptism: Neither Catholic Nor Protestant

 

 

 

W. Grinton Berry, ed., Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Baker, 1978).

Thielman J. Van Braght, Martyr's Mirror (Herald Press, 1938).