Hurtado, Larry. At the Origins of Christian Worship. Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 2000. A leading scholar traces the worship of the exalted Jesus
back to the earliest days of Jewish Christianity.
Jefferson, Thomas. The Jefferson Bible. With an introduction by F. Church
and an afterward by Jaroslav Pelikan. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989 (reissued).
A fascinating document, the product of a few evenings after work at the
White House when Jefferson literally took scissors and paste and produced
a volume he called “The life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth,” shorn of
miracles, messianism, and anything else a Deist would ¿ nd offensive in
the Bible.
John of the Cross. The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross. Translated by
Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez. Washington DC: ICS Publications,
- Includes The Ascent of Mount Carmel, The Dark Night, The Spiritual
Canticle, and The Living Flame of Love.
Jonas, Hans. The Gnostic Religion. 2nd ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 1963. A
classic and still the deepest introduction to how the Gnostics thought.
Klaassen, Walter. Anabaptism in Outline. Kitchener, ON: Herald Press, 1981.
A collection of 16th-century documents written by Anabaptists, covering the
whole range of their theology.
Layton, Bently. The Gnostic Scriptures. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
Contains translations of the most important and best-preserved of the ancient
Gnostic texts, including the Gospel of Thomas and other major ¿ nds from
Nag Hammadi, with helpful scholarly notes and introductions.
Liardon, Roberts. The Azusa Street Revival. Shippensburg, PA: Destiny
Image Publishers, 2006. A history of Pentecostalism from a theological
advocate of the movement, including biographies of key ¿ gures, sermons
and articles, and eyewitness testimony of the Azusa Street revival.