Church Matters: Retrieving the Great Tradition

Bibliography For Further Study on Church History and the Great Tradition

Allsman, Don. Jesus Cropped from the Picture: Why Christians Get Bored and How To Restore them to Vibrant Faith . Wichita, KS: The Urban Ministry Institute (World Impact, Inc.), 2009.

Barnett, Paul. Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity . Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1999.

Bauckham, Richard. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006.

Brown, Peter. The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750 . London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1971.

------. Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

------. Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity . University of California Press, 1989.

------. The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity . New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

------. The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

------. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD 200-1000. Blackwell Publishing, 2003.

Buschart, W. David. Exploring Protestant Traditions: An Invitation to Theological Hospitality . Downers Grove: IVP Academic Press, 2006.

Clark, Elizabeth. Women in the Early Church . Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1983.

Coakley, John W. and Andrea Sterk. Readings in World Christian History . Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004.

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