History of Christianity Reading Room

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This page is designed to help make History of Christianity resources available to those without easy access to a theological library. Many of the links below connect you to scanned, published books and articles made across the world-wide web, including those Google Books with significant preview and searchable content.

Encyclopedia, Dictionaries, Handbooks of Church History

• Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Ed. Gerald H. Anderson. Eerdmans, 1999.
• Encyclopedia of Christianity, Vol. 1, A-D; Vol. 2, E-I; Vol. 3, J-O; Vol. 4, P-Sh; Vol. 5, Si-Z. Erwin Fahlbusch, ed. G.W. Bromiley, trans. Brill/Eerdmans, 2001; 2008 (very good).
• New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. 15 vol, 2003, available as Tyndale eBook - Gale Virtual Reference; those outside the Tyndale community may wish to use the Catholic Encyclopedia (1917) Kevin Knight, on-line ed. (academic, but dated).
• New Westminster Dictionary Of Church History: Vol. 1: The Early, Medieval, and Reformation Eras. Robert Benedetto, ed. Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.
• OSV`s Encyclopedia of Catholic History. Ed. Matthew Bunson and Margaret Buson. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 2004.
• Oxford History of Christian Worship. Ed. Geoffrey Wainwright and Karen B. Westerfield Tucker. Oxford, 2006.
• Routledge Companion to the Christian Church. Gerard Mannion, Lewis S. Mudge, eds. Routledge, 2008.
• Who`s who in Christian History. Douglas, James D. and Philip W. Comfort, eds. Tyndale House, 1992.
• Who`s who in Christianity. Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok, ed. Routledge, 1998 (also copy 1 and copy 2).
• See also numerous links to dictionaries and encyclopedia of theology and religion.
• NetLibrary: Tyndale students only have access to the following full-text resources via NetLibrary eBooks:
  • Historical Dictionary of Seventh-Day Adventists. Ed. Gary Land. Scarecrow, 2005.
  • Historical Dictionary of the Salvation Army. Ed. John Merritt. Scarecrow, 2005.
  • Historical Dictionary of the Orthodox Church. Ed. Micheal Prokurat et al. Scarecrow, 1996.
  • Historical Dictionary of the Crusades. Ed. C.K. Slack. Scarecrow, 2003.

Church History: Methods, Introduction to Research

• Bradley, James, and Richard A. Muller, Richard A. Church History: An Introduction to Research, Reference Works, and Methods. Eerdmans, 1995.
• Cameron, Euan. Interpreting Christian History: The Challenge of the Churches` Past. Blackwell, 2005 (and copy).
• Church, F. Forrester, and Timothy George, eds. Continuity and Discontinuity in Church History: Essays Presented to George H. Williams on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Brill, 1979.
• Wengert, Timothy J., and Charles W. Brockwell, eds. Telling the Churches` Stories: Ecumenical Perspectives on Writing Christian History. Eerdmans, 1995.
• Williams, Rowan. Why Study the Past?: The Quest for the Historical Church. Eerdmans, 2005.

Survey Texts of Church History and Readers

• Atwood, Craig D. Always Reforming: A History of Christianity Since 1300. Mercer University, 2001.
• Bainton, Roland H. Christianity. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000.
• Balling, Jakob. The Story of Christianity: From Birth to Global Presence. Eerdmans, 2003.
• Bettenson, Henry, ed. Documents of the Christian Church. 2nd Revised Edition. Oxford, 1967.
• Cairns, Earle E. Christianity Through the Centuries: A History of the Christian Church. Third revised edition. Zondervan, 1996.
• Dwyer, John C. Church History: Twenty Centuries of Catholic Christianity. Revised edition. Paulist, 1998.
• Dowley, Tim, ed. Introduction to the History of Christianity: First Century to the Present Day. Fortress, 2006.
• Hastings, Adrian, ed. A World History of Christianity. Eerdmans, 2000.
• Herring, George. An Introduction to the History of Christianity: From the Early Church to the Enlightenment. Continuum, 2006 (also copy).
• Jolly, Karen Louise, ed. Tradition & Diversity: Christianity in a World Context to 1500. M.E. Sharpe, 1997.
• Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A History of Christianity, vol. VI: The Great Century in Northern Africa and Asia a.d. 1800- a.d. 1914. Taylor & Francis (and copy).
• Koschorke, Klaus, et al., eds. A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: A Documentary Sourcebook. Eerdmans, 2007.
• Kuiper, B.K. The Church in History. Eerdmans, 1988.
• Landers, John M. A Summary of Christian History. Third edition. B&H, 2005.
• Lindberg, Carter. A Brief History of Christianity. Revised edition. Blackwell, 2005 (and copy).
• Marty, Martin E. The Christian World: A Global History. Random House, 2007.
• McGonigle, Thomas D., and James F. Quigley. A History of the Christian Tradition, Vol. 1: From its Jewish origins to the Reformation; Vol. 2: From the Reformation to the Present. Paulist, 1988, 1996.
• McGrath, Alister E. Christian Literature: An Anthology. Blackwell, 2001 (copy 1; copy 2).
• Orlandis, Jose. A Short History of the Catholic Church. Michael Adams, trans. 2nd edition. Scepter Publishers, 1993.
• Reid, Patrick. Readings in Western Religious Thought: The Ancient World. Paulist, 1987; Readings in Western Religious Thought: The Middle Ages through the Reformation. Paulist, 1995.
• Sanneh, Lamin O. Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity. Oxford, 2008.
• Stark, Rodney. The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History. Princeton, 1996; For the Glory of God: How Monotheism led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery. Princeton, 2003 (also copy 1; copy 2).
• Tomkins, Stephen. A Short History of Christianity. Eerdmans, 2006.
• Woodhead, Linda. An Introduction to Christianity. Cambridge, 2004.

 Why Study History Through Primary Sources? (Adapted from James Harvey Robinson, "The Historical point of View", in Readings in European History, Vol I, [Boston: Ginn, 1904], 1-13)

Resources for Tyndale's History of Christianity I

(Kinkos Reader -Selections ["K"] by Donald Goertz and Ronald Kydd)

Tip: For screen "snapshots" and note-taking while reading the texts below, try using Zotero ("a free, easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources"), or the "Snipping Tool" in the Microsoft Office "Accessories" program folder)-ANF

I. THE EARLY CHURCH

• Reading K1: Early Christian Fathers. Early Christian Fathers. Vol. 1, LLC. Ed. C.C. Richardson. Westminster, 1953.
  • Read Didache (pp.171-179) only; also interlinear Greek/English, 162-218, with pdf option)
  • Read Ignatius, "Letter to the Ephesians" (pp.87-93) only (also here, pp. 38-52, with full-text cut, past and print option)
  • Read Clement, "First Corinthian Letter" (pp.62-65) only (also here, with pdf or plain-text, cut/paste option)
• Reading K2: Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas. Tr. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.
  • Read The Passion of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas, all (text can be cut, pasted and printed)
• Reading K3: Athanasius of Alexandria. "The Life of St. Antony." Athanasius: Select Works and Letters. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers II. Vol 4. Ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Eerdmans, 1924.
  • Read 1-20, 53-58, and 65-94 only (this is a printable format).
• Reading K4: Augustine of Hippo. Confessions. Tr. F.J. Sheed. Continuum International Publishing Group, 1943.
  • Read Book II and Book III only (printable [but older] translation here, pp. 55-67).

II. THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH

• Reading K5: St. Patrick. The Confession of St. Patrick. Tr. Ludwig Bieler. CCEL.
  • Read The Confession (printable)
• Reading K6: The Jesus Sutras. The Jesus Sutras: Rediscovering the Lost Scrolls of Taoist Christianity. Ed. Martin Palmer. Ballantine, 2001. NB: available as Ebrary e-book to Tyndale students & faculty only.
  • Read pp. 224-232; 139-146; 147-150; 159-168 only of Ebrary e-book (click InfoTools top left to print)
• Reading K7: Timothy I and Caliph Mahdi. "The Debate on the Christian Faith between Timothy I and Caliph Mahdi in 781 A.D." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 12. Vol 2. Cambridge W. Heffer & Sons Limited, 1928.
  • Read Preface, Edition, and Translation by A. Mingana (pp.11-12; can be cut, pasted and printed).
  • Read Timothy I, Apology for Christianity (pp.60-90; can be cut, pasted and printed).
  • Read "71*. Timothy I" (pp.218-222) and "44*. Martyrius Sahdona" (pp.245-250) (To Be Supplied) in A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature." Ed. Sebastian P. Brock, 1997.
• Reading K8: Benedict of Nursia. The Rule of St. Benedict. Tr. Boniface Verheyen. OSB, 1949.
  • Read The Rule of St. Benedict, all (with pdf option)
• Reading K9: The First Crusade (texts can be cut, pasted and printed)
  • Read Pope Urban II (1088-1099): Speech at Council of Clermont; Four Versions of the Speech.
    • Read The Version of Robert the Monk. "Urban and the Crusaders." Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History. Vol 1:2. Tr. Dana C. Munro. University of Pennsylvania, 1895.
    • Read The Gesta Version. The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants. Ed. August. C. Krey. Princeton, 1921.
    • Read The Version of Baldric of Dol. The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants. Ed. August. C. Krey. Princeton, 1921.
    • Read The Version of Guibert of Nogent. The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants.. Ed. August. C. Krey. Princeton, 1921.
    • Read Urban II's Letter of Instruction to the Crusaders, Dec. 1095. The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants. Ed. August. C. Krey. Princeton, 1921.
  • Read The Siege and Capture of Antioch: The Discovery of the Holy Lance.
    • Read "The Gesta Version" (#5) and "The Version of Raymond d'Aguiliers" (#6) The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants. Ed. August. C. Krey. Princeton, 1921.
  • Read The Siege and Fall of Jerusalem.
    • Read The Fall of Jerusalem, The Version of Raymond d`Aguiliers. The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants. Ed. August. C. Krey. Princeton, 1921.
    • Read The Fall of Jerusalem, The Gesta Version. The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants. Ed. August. C. Krey. Princeton, 1921.
    • Read The Frankish Victory, The Version of Raymond d`Aguiliers. The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants.. Ed. August. C. Krey. Princeton, 1921.
    • Read "The Vision of Peace," The Gesta Version. The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants. Ed. August. C. Krey. Princeton, 1921.
    • Read "The Vision of Peace," The Version of Raymond d`Aguiliers. The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants. Ed. August. C. Krey. Princeton, 1921.
    • Read The News Spreads: The Letter of Manasses II, Archbishop of Reims. The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants. Ed. August. C. Krey. Princeton, 1921.
• Reading K10: St. Francis of Assisi. The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi. Tr. Constance de la Warr. London, 1907.
  • Read First Rule of the Friars Minor (1221), pp. 1-27 only (here, or as pdf)
• Reading K11: Luther, Martin. Concerning Christian Liberty, 1520. Tr. R.S. Grignon. Collier and Son, 1910.
  • Read Part II and Part III (text can be cut, pasted and printed)

Resources for Tyndale's History of Christianity II

(Kinkos Reader - Selections ["S"] by Donald Goertz and Ronald Kydd)

I. THE REFORMATION CHURCH

• Reading S1: Afonso, King of the Kongo. "Selected Letters"
  • Read Selected Letters (pdf).
• Reading S2: Knox, John. The History of the Reformation in Scotland. Ed. William C. Dickinson. Thomas Nelson, 1949.
  • Read pp.7-20 and pp.104-131 only (also pdf)
• Reading S3: Herbert, George. A Priest to the Temple, or A Country Parson. Ed. John Randolph. Clarendon Press, 1824.
  • Read Chp.I-Chp.XXIII (pp.37-70) only (also pdf)
• Reading S4: Ignatius of Loyola. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Tr. Elder Mullan, S.J. Kennedy & Sons, 1914.
  • Read "First Week" - "First Exercise" (pp. 24-32)
  • Read "Second Week" (pp. 40-58)

• Reading S5: de las Casas, Bartolomé.The Tears of the Indians. Tr. John Philips. Academic Reprints, 1656.
  • Read pp.1-5 and pp.76-134 (currently unavailable; note for instructor - check here)
• Reading S6: Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim`s Progress. Harper and Brothers, 1837
  • Read pp.152-181 (top) only (with download/pdf option).

II. THE MODERN CHURCH

• Reading S7: Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus. Thirty Four Conferences Between the Danish Missionaries and the Malabarian Bramans (or Heathen Priests) in the East Indies, Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion: Together with Some Letters Written by the Heathens to the Said Missionaries. Tr. Jenkin Thomas Philipps, H. Clements, W. Fleetwood, and J. Stephens, 1719.
  • Read pp. 5-17, pp. 37-61, and pp. 75-99 only (also pdf).
• Reading S8: Jesuit Fathers. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in North America, 1610-1791. Ed. R.G. Thwaites. The Burrows Brothers Co., 1898 (also pdf).
  • Read pp. 25-37 by Regnaut, Christophe in Vol. XXXIV. NB: Read even-numbered pages only.
  • Read pp. 79-85, pp. 107-143, and pp. 147-161 by Ragueneau, Paul in Vol. XXXV. NB: Read even-numbered pages only.
• Reading S9: Wesley, John and Charles Wesley. John and Charles Wesley; Selected Prayers, Hymns, Journal Notes, Sermons, Letters, and Treatises. Ed. F. Whaling. Paulist, 1981.
  • Read pp.77-89 (also here for download/pdf) and pp. 99-110 only.
• Reading S10: Edwards, Jonathan. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: In Three Parts. Ed. John E. Smith. James Crissy, 1821 (with download/pdf option)
  • Read pp.13-49 and pp.123-128 (top) only.
• Reading S11: Alline, Henry. The Journal of Henry Alline. Ed. James Beverley. Lancelot Press, 1982.
  • Read pp. 9-39 (with download/pfd option)
• Reading S12: Palmer, Phoebe.
  • Read pp.31-49 (to be supplied) in Tongues of Fire on the Daughters of the Lord. Ed. Thomas C. Oden. Paulist Press, 1988.
  • Read pp.17-70 in The Way of Holiness. University of Michigan, 1854 (with download/pdf option)
  • Read Introduction-Sec.III (pp.v-24) and Sec.XV-XVI (pp.96-105) in Entire Devotion to God. Oxford University, 1857 (with download/pdf option)
• Reading S13: Finney, Charles G. Reflections on Revival. Ed. Donald Dayton
  • Read January 21, 1846 (cut and paste; or original)
  • Read February 4, 1846.
  • Read February 18, 1846.
  • Read April 29, 1846.
  • Read March 4, 1846.
  • Read March 18, 1846.
  • Read April 1, 1846.

The Medieval Church in Europe

• Deanesly, Margaret. A History of the Medieval Church: 590-1500. Routledge, 1969 (also copy 1 and copy 2).
• Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Vol. 1: the Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600). 2nd ed.; Vol. 2: The Growth of Medieval Theology (600-1300). University of Chicago Press, 1971.
• Swanson, Robert N. Religion and devotion in Europe, c.1215-c.1515. 2nd ed. Cambridge, 1995.

Resources for the Medieval and Early Church on the WWW

• Horsley, Richard A. Christian Origins. Fortress, 2005.
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
• ICLnet Guide to Early Christian Documents
• Internet Jewish History Sourcbook
• Ecole Initiative - Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History
• Patristic Links (Canadian Society of Patristic Studies)
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• The Labyrinth- Resources for Medieval Studies.
• Index of Historical Maps available on-line.
• Athena: Authors and Texts (very thorough on-line bookshelf)

The Church in Eastern Europe

• Davis, Nathaniel. A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy. 2nd rev`d ed. Westview, 2003.
• Knox, Zoe Katrina. Russian Society and the Orthodox Church: Religion in Russia After Communism. Routledge, 2005.
• Pospielovsky, Dimitry. The Orthodox Church in the History of Russia. St. Vladimir`s Seminary Press, 1998.
• Shubin, Daniel H. A History of Russian Christianity, Vol. 1: From the Earliest Years to through Tsar Ivan IV (also copy; Vol. 3: The Synodal Era And the Sectarians 1725 to 1894 (also copy); Vol. 4: The Orthodox Church 1894-1990. Algora Publishing, 2004.

The Church in Africa

• Agbeti, J. Kofi. West African Church History. Christian Missions and Church Foundations: 1482-1919, Vol. 1. Brill, 1986.
• Ayandele, Emmanuel Ayankanmi. African Historical Studies. Routledge, 1979.
• Anderson, Allan. African Reformation: African Initiated Christianity in the 20th Century. Africa World Press, 2002.
• De Gruchy, John W. and Steve De Gruchy. The Church Struggle in South Africa. 25th Anniv. ed. Fortress, 2005.
• Elphick, Richard, and T. R. H. Davenport, eds. Christianity in South Africa: A Political, Social & Cultural History. University of California, 1997.
• Githieya, Francis Kimani. The Freedom of the Spirit: African Indigenous Churches in Kenya. Oxford, 1997.
• Hastings, Adrian. The Church in Africa, 1450-1950. Oxford, 1994(also copy).
• Isichei, Elizabeth Allo. A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present. Eerdmans, 1995.
• Kirsch, Thomas G. Spirits and Letters: Reading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity. Berghahn, 2008.
• Koschorke, Klaus, et al., eds. Africa, in: A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: A Documentary Sourcebook. Eerdmans, 2007. Pp. 139-276.
• Maxwell, David, ed. Christianity and the African Imagination: Essays in Honour of Adrian Hastings. Brill, 2002.
• Reed, Colin. Pastors, Partners, and Paternalists: African Church Leaders and Western Missionaries in the Anglican Church in Kenya, 1850-1900. Brill, 1997.
• Sundkler, Bengt, and Christopher Steed. A History of the Church in Africa. Cambridge, 2000.
• Thornton, John K. The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian movement, 1684-1706. 2nd ed. Cambridge. Cambridge, 1998 (also copy).
• Tilley, Maureen A. Donatist Martyr Stories: The Church in Conflict in Roman North Africa. Liverpool University, 1996.
• Ward, Kevin. Africa, A World History of Christianity. Ed. Adrian Hastings. Eerdmans, 2000. Ch. 6, pp. 192-237.
  Other
• Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. Oxford, 2002.

The Church in Asia

• Angold, Michael. Eastern Christianity. Cambridge, 2006 (also copy).
• Baum, Wilhelm, and Dietmar W. Winkler. The Church of the East: A Concise History. Routledge, 2003 (also copy).
• Browne, Laurence E. The Eclipse of Christianity in Asia. From the Time of Muhammad till the Fourteenth Century. Cambridge, 1933.
  Published by CUP Archive
• Griffith, Sidney H. The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam. Princeton, 2007.
• Joseph, John. The Modern Assyrians of the Middle East: Encounters with Western Christian Missions, Archaeologists, and Colonial Power. 2n ed. Brill, 2000; also Muslim-Christian Relations and Inter-Christian Rivalries in the Middle East: The Case of the Jacobites in an Age of Transition. SUNY, 1983.
• Koschorke, Klaus, et al., eds. A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: A Documentary Sourcebook. Eerdmans, 2007.
• Rassam, Suha. Christianity in Iraq: Its Origins and Development to the Present Day. Gracewing, 2005.
• Takahashi, Hidemi. Barhebraeus: A Bio-bibliography. Gorgias Press LLC, 2005.
• Walker, Joel T. The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq. University of California, 2006.
• Wigram, W.A. An Introduction to the History of the Assyrian Church: Or the Church of the Sassanid Persian Empire, 100-640 A.D.. Gorgias Press LLC, 2004 (reprint).
• Wilmshurst, David. The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913. Peeters, 2000.
• Ye-or, Bat. The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude. Seventh to Twentieth Century. Tr. Miriam Kochan. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1996; Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide. Tr. Miriam Kochan and D. Littman. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2002 (and copy).
• ... under construction

The Church in India

• Frykenberg, Robert E. Christianity in India: From Beginnings to the Present. Oxford, 2008.
  India, A World History of Christianity. Ed. Adrian Hastings. Eerdmans, 2000. Ch. 5, pp. 147-192.
• Frykenberg, Robert E., et al, eds. Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-Cultural Communication Since 1500, with Special Reference to Caste, Conversion, and Colonialism. Eerdmans, 2003.
• Hudson, D. Dennis. Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835. Eerdmans, 2000.
• Neill, Stephen. A History of Christianity in India: The Beginnings to AD 1707. Cambridge, 2004 (copy 1; copy 2).
• Robinson, R., ed. Sociology of Religion in India. Sage, 2004.
• Ziegenbalg, B. (see above).
• Županov, Ines G. Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontier in India (16th-17th Centuries). University of Michigan Press, 2005.
• ... under construction

The Church in the Far-East

• Cheung, David. Christianity in Modern China: The Making of the First Native Protestant Church. Brill, 2004.
• De Jong, Gerald F. The Reformed Church in China, 1842-1951. Eerdmans, 1992.
• Lozada, Eriberto P. God Aboveground: Catholic Church, Postsocialist State, and Transnational Processes in a Chinese Village. Stanford, 2001.
• ... under construction ...

The Church in the Americas

The Church in Latin America

• Batstone, David B. From Conquest to Struggle: Jesus of Nazareth in Latin America. SUNY, 1991.
• Burdick, Michael A. For God and Fatherland: Religion and Politics in Argentina. SUNY, 1995.
• Caldecott, Alfred. The Church in the West Indies (1898). Routledge, 1970 (reprint).
• Cleary, Edward L., and Hannah W. Stewart-Gambino. Power, Politics, and Pentecostals in Latin America. Westview, 1997.
• Dussel, Enrique. A History of the Church in Latin America. Eerdmans, 1981.
• Freston, Paul. Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America. Oxford, 2008.
• Koschorke, Klaus, et al., eds. Latin America, in: A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: A Documentary Sourcebook. Eerdmans, 2007. Pp. 277-418.
• Patterson, Eric. Latin America`s Neo-Reformation: Religion`s Influence on Contemporary Politics. Routledge, 2005
• Schwaller, John F. The Church in Colonial Latin America. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
• Westmeier, Karl-Wilhelm. Protestant Pentecostalism in Latin America: A Study in the Dynamics of Missions. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1999.
  Other
• Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. Oxford, 2002.

The Church in Canada

• See the extensive link collection in our Canadian Church Reading Room

The Church in the United States

• Finke, Roger, and Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in our Religious Economy. 2nd rev`d ed. Rutgers, 2005 (and copy; 1st ed., 1993).
• Gaustad, Edwin S., and Mark A. Noll, ed. A Documentary History of Religion in America. Vol. 1: To 1877; Vol. 2: Since 1877. 3rd ed. Eerdmans, 2003.
• Noll, Mark A. The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity. Eerdmans, 2002; A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada. Eerdmans, 1992.
• ... under construction ...

Religion in North America

• Canadian Encyclopedia (includes Macleans Magazine, Youth Encyclopedia of Canada, and Encylopedia of Music in Canada)
• Contemporary American Religion. Wade Clark Roof, ed. Macmillan, 2000. 2 vols. (available as eBook to the Tyndale community only over the Gale Virtual Reference Library).
• Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Marie Cantlon, eds. Indiana University, 2006. 3 vols. (available as eBook to the Tyndale community only over the Gale Virtual Reference Library).
• Melton`s Encyclopedia of American Religions. J. Gordon Melton, ed. Eighth edition. Gale, 2009. Pp. 1386 (available as eBook to the Tyndale community only over the Gale Virtual Reference Library).
• ... under construction ...

General Sources on the WWW

• Virtual Religion Index
• Internet Christian Library (Guide to Christian Resources, Literature, Organizations on the net)
• Religion Online (full-texts by scholars)
• Christian Resources (General & by denomination)
• Coptic Network (archive of prayers, hymns and academic writings from the Coptic tradition)
• Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity
• Church History Resources (Trinity College, Univ of Toronto)
• Hall of Church History
• Theological Journals Search (journals with free full text articles-- links to many good articles on the history of Christianity)
• See Tyndale`s eJournal Database --thousands of full-text articles on aspects of Church history freely available for Tyndale students and faculty only. (Choose EBSCOhost database; log in; choose "EBSCOhost" and then "All" databases; over 170 full-text theological journals available to you from home; for a few additional journals, go back to Tyndale Journal Database and choose the ProQuest Religion or JSTOR databases); see list of Tyndale`s academic ejournals with full-text articles for download.
• PDF Search Engine; try searches for "Augustin", "Aquinas", "Anabaptist", etc.