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Church history

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Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017), ed. by George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou (PDF files at Project MUSE)
Ancient, Medieval and Modern Christianity: The Evolution of a Religion (New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, c1961), by Charles Guignebert (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Short History of Christianity (New York et al.: New American Library, c1959), by Martin E. Marty (page images at HathiTrust)
The Trail of Blood (c1931), by J. M. Carroll (PDF at baptistbecause.com)
The History of Christianity in the Light of Modern Knowledge: A Collective Work (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1929) (page images at HathiTrust)
Church History for Busy People (third edition, 1928), by George A. Klingman (PDF at brendanu.org)
The Church: Its Origin, its History, its Present Position (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1867), by Chr. Ernst Luthardt, Karl Friedr. Aug. Kahnis, and Benno Bruno Brückner, trans. by Sophia Taylor
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Church, Past and Present: A Review of its History by the Bishop of London, Bishop Barry, and Other Writers (New York: T. Whittaker, ca. 1899), ed. by Henry Melvill Gwatkin (multiple formats at archive.org)
History of the Christian Church (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1890), by George Park Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the Christian Church (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922), by George Park Fisher (multiple formats at archive.org)
History of the Christian Church, by Philip Schaff
- Volume I: multiple formats at CCEL
- Volume II: multiple formats at CCEL
- Volume III: multiple formats at CCEL
- Volume IV: multiple formats at CCEL
- Volume V: multiple formats at CCEL
- Volume VI: multiple formats at CCEL
- Volume VII: multiple formats at CCEL
- Volume VIII: multiple formats at CCEL
A Short History of Christianity (London: Watts and Co., 1902), by J. M. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
A Short History of Christianity (second edition; London: Watts and Co., 1913), by J. M. Robertson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Sketches of Church History, From A. D. 33 to the Reformation, by James Craigie Robertson (multiple formats at CCEL)
An Outline History of the Church by Centuries (From St. Peter to Pius XII) (seventh revised edition; St. Louis and London: B. Herder Book Co., 1948), by Joseph McSorley, contrib. by John B. Peterson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
An Outline History of the Church by Centuries (From St. Peter to Pius XII) (fifth revised edition; St. Louis and London: B. Herder Book Co., 1946), by Joseph McSorley, contrib. by John B. Peterson (multiple formats at archive.org)
Church Questions: Historical and Moral Reviews (London: J. Snow; Manchester, UK: Thomson and Baxter, ca. 1862), by Joseph Parker (multiple formats at Google)
Die Christliche Religion, Mit Einschluss der Israelitisch-Jüdischen Religion (Kultur der Gegenwart v1, pt. 4; 2 volumes in German; Berlin and Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1906), contrib. by Julius Wellhausen, Adolf Jülicher, Adolf von Harnack, G. Nathanael Bonwetsch, Karl Müller, Franz Xaver von Funk, Ernst Troeltsch, Joseph Pohle, Joseph Mausbach, Cornelius Krieg, Wilhelm Herrmann, Reinhold Seeberg, Wilhelm Faber, and Heinrich Julius Holtzmann
- Part 1 (Geschichte der Christlichen Religion): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part 2 (Systematische Christliche Theologie): multiple formats at archive.org
Lectures on Modern History, by John Acton (PDF at McMaster)
On the Church of Christ: The Person of the Church and Her Personnel, by Jacques Maritain, trans. by Joseph W. Evans (HTML at Notre Dame)
Fox's Book of Martyrs: A History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs (Philadelphia and Chicago: J. C. Winston Co., c1926), by John Foxe, ed. by William Byron Forbush (page images at HathiTrust)
The Baptist Annual Register (4 volumes, covering 1790-1802), by John Rippon (page images at HathiTrust)
Earlham Lectures: 1. A Compend of Christian Doctrine; 2. The Ritualistic Law and its Antitype in Christ; 3. History of Christianity to Constantine (Richmond, IN: Nicholson and Bro., 1885), by Barnabas C. Hobbs (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online (variorum online edition of Foxe's "Book of Marytrs", with transcriptions of four 16th century editions and modern commentary), by John Foxe (HTML at johnfoxe.org)

Filed under: Church history -- 16th century

Annales Ecclesiastici (37 volumes in Latin; Barri-Ducis et al., 1864-1883), by Cesare Baronio, Odorico Rinaldi, Giacomo Laderchi, and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Church history -- 18th century

German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (New York: C. Scribner, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Church history -- 19th century

New Views of Christianity, Society, and the Church (Boston: J. Munroe and Co., 1836), by Orestes Augustus Brownson (multiple formats at archive.org)
What I Believe, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Constantine Popoff (HTML at nonresistance.org)
The New Epoch for Faith (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1901), by George A. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
New Star Papers: or, Views and Experiences of Religious Subjects, by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at MOA)
German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (New York: C. Scribner, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Church history -- England

John de Wycliffe: The First of the Reformers, and What He Did For England (New York: R. Carter and Bros., ca. 1884), by Emily Sarah Holt (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Church history -- Historiography

Mooted Questions of History (revised edition; Boston: Marlier and Co., 1902), by Humphrey J. Desmond (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Church history -- Juvenile literature

The Chosen People: A Compendium Of Sacred and Church History For School-Children, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
The Chosen People: A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children (5th edition; New York: Pott and Amery, 1868), by Charlotte M. Yonge (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
Stories From Church History, From the Introduction of Christianity to the Sixteenth Century (London: Seeley and Burnside, 1828), by Selina Bunbury (multiple formats at Google)

Filed under: Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500

The Afterlife of Pope Joan: Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Craig M. Rustici (page images at HathiTrust)
A New World in a Small Place: Church and Religion in the Diocese of Rieti, 1188-1378 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Robert Brentano (HTML at UC Press)
Conflict and Coexistence: Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Medieval Spain (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, c2004), by Lucy K. Pick (page images at HathiTrust)
The Church and the Empire: Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304, by D. J. Medley (Gutenberg text)
The Plain Man's Religion in the Middle Ages (Medieval Studies #13, reprinted from the Hibbert Journal; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1916), by G. G. Coulton (page images at HathiTrust)
Veterum Aliquot Scriptorum Qui in Galliae Bibliothecis, Maximè Benedictinorum, Latuerant, Spicilegium (13 volumes, in Latin; Paris: C. Savreux (for most volumes), 1655-1677), ed. by Luc d' Achery
Annales Ecclesiastici (37 volumes in Latin; Barri-Ducis et al., 1864-1883), by Cesare Baronio, Odorico Rinaldi, Giacomo Laderchi, and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)
Chronique de Michel le Syrien, Patriarche Jacobite d'Antioche (1166-1199) (4 volumes; first 3 in French, last in Syriac; Paris: E. Leroux, 1899-1904), by Michael the Syrian, ed. by Jean-Baptiste Chabot
The Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia, by Paul Freedman (frame-dependent PDF files at Libro)
Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain: The Order of Merced on the Christian-Islamic Frontier, by James Brodman (PDF files at Libro)
The Gnostics and Their Remains, Ancient and Mediaeval (second edition; London: David Nutt, 1887), by C. W. King (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911), by George Hodges (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

Filed under: Church history -- Modern period, 1500-

Asia's Message to Europe: A Lecture Delivered on the Occasion of the Fifty-third Anniversary of the Brahmo Somaj at the Town Hall, Calcutta, on Saturday the 20th January, 1883 (Kolkata: R.S. Bhatta, 1883), by Keshub Chunder Sen

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