Church History Books

Can anyone recommend any good church history books? Most of the ones I have found in the used bookstore seem to have a Catholic slant to them. :-(

Jordan

This series was edited by some rather (theologically) liberal editors, but the Ante-Nice and Post-Nicene Fathers (here: [url=http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/?show=worksBy]http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/?show=worksBy[/url]) provide a free access to many first-hand accounts, including Eusebius's 4th-century history of the Church.

Phillip Schaff, editor of the series, also wrote an 8-volume history of the church, available at the same link.

Hi Jason,
Here is a very good overall book on Church History,

Vos, Harold F. Exploring Church History. Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson Publishers, Inc. Distributed in Canada by Nelson/Word Inc. 1994

Also a very extensive list to keep you reading for ……
Hope this helps
pastorfrin

GENERAL
Bainton, Roland H. The Medieval Church. New York: Van Nostrand, 1926.
Barrett, David. World Christian Encyclopedia. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Bedell, Kenneth B., ed. Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, 1995. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.
Bettenson, Henry, ed. Documents of the Christian Church. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford, 1963.
Cairns, Earle E. Christianity Through the Centuries. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1981.
Chadwick, Henry. The Early Church. London: Penguin, 1967.
Chadwick, Henry and Evans, G. R., eds. Atlas of the Christian Church. New York: Facts on File, 1987.
Cheetham, Nicolas. Keepers of the Keys (a history of the popes). New York: Scribner’s, 1983.
Cross, F. L. and Livingstone, E. A., eds. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Detzler, Wayne A. The Changing Church in Europe. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1979.
Douglas, J. D., ed. The New International Dictionary of the Christian Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1974.
______. New 20th-Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991.
Dowley, Tim. Eerdman’s Handbook to the History of Christianity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977.
Elwell, Walter A., ed. Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1984.
Falk, Peter. The Growth of the Church in Africa. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1978.
Ferguson, Everett, ed. Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. New York: Garland, 1990.
Ferguson, Sinclair, ed. New Dictionary of Theology. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1988.
Gail, Marzieh. Avignon in Flower. London: Victor Gollancz, 1966.
Grousset, René. The Epic of the Crusades. New York: Orion, 1970.
Hastings, Adrian, ed. Modern Catholicism, Vatican II and After. New York: Oxford, 1991.
Heick, Otto W. A History of Christian Thought. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1965.
Hill, Bennett D., ed. Church and State in the Middle Ages. New York: Wiley, 1970.
Hillgarth, J. N., ed. Christianity and Paganism, 350–750. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1986.
Hoke, Donald E., ed. The Church in Asia. Chicago: Moody, 1975.
Jedin, Hubert, and Dolan, John, ed. History of the Church. 10 vols. New York: Crossroad/Continuum.
Johnstone, Patrick. Operation World. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993.
Kelley, J. N. D. The Oxford Dictionary of the Popes. New York: Oxford, 1986.
Latourette, Kenneth Scott. Christianity Through the Ages. New York: Harper, 1965.
______. A History of Christianity. Rev. ed. 2 vols. New York: Harper, 1975.
McManners, John, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity. New York: Oxford, 1990.
Margoulias, Harry J. Byzantine Christianity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982.
Markus, Robert. The End of Ancient Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Marty, Martin E. A Short History of Christianity. Cleveland: Collins World, 1959.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. Rev. ed. New York: Penguin, 1986.
O’Brien, John M. The Medieval Church. Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams, 1968.
Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine. 5 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Vol. 1, 1971; 2, 1974; 3, 1978; 4, 1984; 5, 1989.
Renwick, A. M. The Story of the Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1958.
Roberts, W. Dayton, and Siewert, John A. Mission Handbook. 15th ed. Monrovia, CA: MARC, 1993.
Schaff, Philip. The Creeds of Christendom. 3 vols. 6th ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1985.
______. History of the Christian Church. 8 vols. New York: Scribner’s, 1910. Reprint. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1960.
Southern, R. W. Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970.
Stevenson, J. Creeds, Councils, and Controversies. London: SPCK, 1966.
Tucker, Ruth A. Daughters of the Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987.
______. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1983.
Urban, Linwood. A Short History of Christian Thought. New York: Oxford, 1986.
VanElderen, Marlin. Introducing the World Council of Churches. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.

Walker, Williston. A History of the Christian Church. 3d ed. New York: Scribner’s, 1970.
Ware, Timothy. The Orthodox Church. New York: Penguin, 1984.
Welch, Claude. Protestant Thought in the Nineteenth Century. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press; vol. 1, 1972; vol. 2, 1985.
Woodbridge, John D. Great Leaders of the Christian Church. Chicago: Moody, 1988.
Wuthnow, Robert. Christianity in the 21st Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
THE REFORMATION
Bainton, Roland. Here I Stand. New York: New American Library, 1950.
______. The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. Boston: Beacon Hill, 1952.
______. Women of the Reformation. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1971.
Brigden, Susan. London and the Reformation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
Cameron, Euan. The European Reformation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
Chadwick, Owen. The Reformation. New York: Penguin, 1972.
Chaunu, Pierre, ed. The Reformation. New York: St. Martin’s, 1986.
Daniel-Rops, H. The Catholic Reformation. New York: Dutton, 1962.
Dickens, A. G. The English Reformation. New York: Schocken, 1964.
George, Timothy. Theology of the Reformers. Nashville: Broadman, 1988.
Grimm, Harold J. The Reformation Era. Rev. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1965.
Holl, Karl. The Cultural Significance of the Reformation. Cleveland: World, 1959.
Jones, R. Tudur. The Great Reformation. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1985.
LeHuray, Peter. Music and the Reformation in England. New York: Oxford, 1967.
McNeill, John T. The History and Character of Calvinism. New York: Oxford, 1954.
Meeter, H. Henry. The Basic Ideas of Calvinism. 6th ed. Rev. by Paul A. Marshall. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1990.
Moss, George L. The Reformation. 3d ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1963.
Ozment, Steven E. Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
______. The Reformation in the Cities. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Thirty Years War. London: Routledge Chapman, 1985.
Parker, Noel Geoffrey. The Dutch Revolt. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977.
Powicke, Maurice. The Reformation in England. London: Oxford, 1941.
Rabb, Theodore. The Thirty Years War. 2d ed. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1981.
Reid, W. Stanford, ed. The Reformation—Revival or Revolution? New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1968.
Reardon, Bernard M. G. Religious Thought in the Reformation. New York: Longman, 1981.
Spitz, Lewis W. The Protestant Reformation. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
Tikkamen, Henrik. The Thirty Years War. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
Wedgewood, C. V. The Thirty Years War. New York: Penguin, 1957.
Williams, George H. The Radical Reformation. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1962.
Wright, A. D. The Counter-Reformation. New York: St. Martin’s, 1982.
THE AMERICAN CHURCH
Ahlstrom, Sydney. A Religious History of the American People. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975.
Banks, William. The Black Church in the United States. Chicago: Moody, 1972.
Bedell, George, et. al. Religion in America. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
Bedell, Kenneth B. & Jones, Alice M. Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. Nashville: Abingdon, published annually.
Bonomi, Patricia U. Under the Cope of Heaven. New York: Oxford, 1986.
Brauer, Jerald. Protestantism in America. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1972.
Bushman, Richard. The Great Awakening. New York: Norton, 1972.
Cairns, Earle E. Christianity in the United States. Chicago: Moody, 1964.
______. Christianity Through the Centuries. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1981.
Carden, Allen. Puritan Christianity in America. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1990.
Curry, Thomas J. The First Freedoms. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Gaustad, Edwin S. Faith of our Fathers. New York: Harper, 1987.
______. The Great Awakening in New England. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1965.
______. A Religious History of America. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.
Gewehr, Wesley. The Great Awakening in Virginia. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1930.
Handy, Robert T. A History of the Churches in the United States and Canada. New York: Oxford, 1976.
Hardman, Keith J. Charles Grandison Finney. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987.
Hatch, Nathan O. and Stout, Harry S., eds. Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience. New York: Oxford, 1988.
Heimert, Alan. Religion and the American Mind. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1966.
Jenson, Robert W. America’s Theologian. New York: Oxford, 1988.
Lloyd-Jones, D. Martyn. The Puritans. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1987.
McGiffert, Michael, ed. Puritanism and the American Experience. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1969.
Marty, Martin E. Modern American Religion. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1986.
______. Pilgrims in Their Own Land. New York: Penguin, 1984.
Maxson, Charles. The Great Awakening in the Middle Colonies. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1920.
Mead, Frank S. Handbook of Denominations in the United States. 9th ed. Rev. by Samuel S. Hill. Nashville: Abingdon, 1990.
Murray, Iain H. Jonathan Edwards. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1987.
Noll, Mark A. A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1992.
Noll, Mark A. and others, eds. Eerdman’s Handbook to Christianity in America. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983.
Olmstead, Clifton E. History of Religion in the United States. Rev. ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960.
Orr, J. Edwin. Campus Aflame. Glendale, CA: Regal, 1972.
______. Eager Feet. Chicago: Moody, 1975.
______. Fervent Prayer. Chicago: Moody, 1974.
______. Flaming Tongue. 2d ed. Chicago: Moody, 1975.
Pollock, John. George Whitefield and the Great Awakening. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1973.
Reid, Daniel G. and others, eds. Dictionary of Christianity in America. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1990.
Riss, Richard M. A Survey of 20th-Century Revival Movements in North America. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1988.
Smith, Timothy L. Revivalism and Social Reform. Magnolia, MA: Peter Smith, n.d.
Stout, Harry S. The New England Soul. New York: Oxford, 1986.
Sweet, William W. Religion in Colonial America. New York: Cooper Square, 1942.
______. The Story of Religion in America. Rev. ed. New York: Harper, 1950. Reprint. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1973.
Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
ISLAM
Andrae, Tor. Mohammed. Salem, NH: Ayer Co, 1936.
Brockelmann, Carl. History of the Islamic Peoples. London: Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1980.
Denny, Frederick M. Islam. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
Glassé, Cyril. The Concise Encyclopedia of Islam. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
Glubb, John. A Short History of the Arab Peoples. New York: Dorset, 1969.
Hodgson, Marshall G. S. The Venture of Islam. 3 Vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Hourani, Albert. A History of the Arab Peoples. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1991.
Jansen, G. H. Militant Islam. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
Mahmud, S. F. A Short History of Islam. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford, 1988.
Mortimer, Edward. Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam. New York: Random House, 1982.
Payne, Robert. The History of Islam. New York: Dorset, 1959.
Pickthall, Mohammed M., trans. The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. New York: New American Library, 1953.
Shorrosh, Anis A. Islam Revealed. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1988.
Von Grunebaum, Gustav E. Muhammadan Festivals. New York: Olive Branch, 1988.
Von Grunebaum, Gustav E. Muhammadan Festivals. New York: Olive Branch, 1988.

I've been considering Schaff's church history series, but I've heard he was twice tried for heresy as an ecumenical, and welcomed other faiths as having "lesser truth"... so I wonder, is there someone who has read it and may know more?

Check out David Bercot's [url=http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=33571&netp_id=134918&event=AFF&item_code=WW][i]Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs[/i][/url]. I have found it to be very beneficial in knowing what the early Church (first 400 years) believed.

It's not comprehensive but you'll profit a lot from it:

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