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10 best books like The Early Church (Henry Chadwick): Early Christian Fathers (Library of Christian Classics), On Christian Doctrine, Three Treatises, The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity, On the Apostolic Preaching, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, Early Christian Doctrines, The Reformation: A History, The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine, The Christian Tradition 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition 100-600

Early Christian Fathers (Library of Christian Classics)
AuthorCyril Charles Richardson
ISBN0684829517
This selection of writings from early church leaders includes work by Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Polycarp, Irenaeus, Athenagoras and Justin Martyr.
Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides...
On Christian Doctrine
AuthorAugustine of Hippo
ISBN0024021504
The words in his title have gotten an offputting reputation in other contexts, and that's a shame. Doctrine is guidance in love. Augustine himself, probably from somebody's frightening childhood experience with City of God, would tend to offer an intimidating nameplate.

Try anyway. He...
Three Treatises
AuthorMartin Luther
ISBN0800616391
Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517. In the three years that followed, Luther clarified and defended his position in numerous writings. Chief among these are the three treatises written in 1520. In these writings Luther tried to frame his ideas in terms...
The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity
AuthorPeter R.L. Brown
ISBN0231061013
I read this book a few years ago and just realized that I never reviewed it. Brown is everything one could desire from a scholar of Mediterranean culture in the several centuries after Christ. He founded the field of Late Antique studies as such, and this book is one of the key contributions he made earlier...
On the Apostolic Preaching
AuthorIrenaeus of Lyons
ISBN0881411744
St. Irenaeus, undisputedly the most important theologian of the second century, laid a firmer foundation for all future Christian thinkers. Both in his work, Against the Heresies and in this present study, Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, St. Irenaeus explains that there is but one God,...
Augustine of Hippo: A Biography
AuthorPeter R.L. Brown
ISBN0520227573
This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last...
Early Christian Doctrines
AuthorJ.N.D. Kelly
This revised edition of the standard history of the first great period in Christian thought has been thoroughly updated in the light of the latest historical findings. Dr. Kelly organizes an ocean of material by outlining the development of each doctrine in its historical context. He lucidly summarizes...
The Reformation: A History
AuthorDiarmaid MacCulloch
At a time when men and women were prepared to kill—and be killed—for their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch's award-winning history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles...
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
AuthorEusebius
ISBN0140445358
Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years.

Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the History and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians....
The Christian Tradition 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition 100-600
AuthorJaroslav Pelikan
ISBN0226653714

A definitive history of Christian Doctrine.

This is probably not the best place to begin learning about the subject, since Pelikan assumes an acquaintance with such terms as Sabellianism, Pelagianism, hypostasis, ousia, etc, but I believe that even a beginner--at least one equipped...
C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
AuthorAlister E. McGrath
ISBN1414339356
Fifty years after his death, C. S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions. His legacy remains varied and vast. He was a towering intellectual figure, a popular fiction author who inspired a global movie franchise around the world of Narnia, and an atheist-turned-Christian thinker.

In...
Christ and Culture
AuthorH. Richard Niebuhr
ISBN0061300039
This 50th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by the distinguished historian Martin E. Marty, who regards this book as one of the most vital books of our time, as well as an introduction by the author never before included in the book, and a new preface by James Gustafson, the premier Christian ethicist...
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