The History of Christian Theology

Bibliography

Chadwick, Henry. The Early Church. rev. ed. New York: Penguin, 1993.

Good brief history of the ancient church until the fall of the Roman Empire.

Colson, Charles and Richard John Neuhaus, Richard, eds. Evangelicals and

Catholics Together: Toward a Common Mission. Nashville: Thomas Nelson,

1995. The initial statement of the most important ongoing theological dialog
      between Catholics and evangelicals.

Crossan, John Dominick. Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography. San Francisco:

HarperOne, 1995. Crossan, a member of the Jesus Seminar and one of the

most radical and interesting scholars on the revisionist end of the spectrum

of historical Jesus research, provides a popular summary of his lengthier

work, The Historical Jesus (1993).

Crouzel, Henri. Origen: The Life and Thought of the First Great

Theologian. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989. The best one-volume

introduction to this enormously important, controversial, and often poorly-

understood ¿ gure.

Cyril of Alexandria, Saint. On the Unity of Christ. Translated by John

McGuckin. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1995. This little

book contains a translation of one of Cyril’s major treatises on Christology;

the translator also provides a detailed and helpful scholarly introduction to

the issues.

Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy. vol. 1, Inferno. Translated by Mark

Musa. New York: Penguin, 1985. In the ¿ rst part of Dante’s medieval

Christian epic, he is taken on a journey through hell while still alive so that

he may understand the nature of God’s eternal justice. This is one of the

best of many translations of what is perhaps the greatest poem ever written.

It is accompanied by extensive notes and explanations, which modern

readers need.

———. The Divine Comedy. vol. 2, Purgatorio. Translated by Mark Musa.

New York: Penguin, 1985. Dante’s journey through purgatory shows the

medieval understanding of purgatory at its best, both poetically vivid and

theologically deep.