CHURCH HISTORY ON THE WEB

Church History general sites

• Today in Church History from Christian History Institute
• Phil Johnson's Home Page - Phil has assembled a beautiful (and graphics-intensive!) library of original sources, including The Spurgeon Archive and The Hall of Church History
• Virtual Seminary has an excellent list of church history links, creeds, early writings. Use the table of contents on the left side of the main page, to find the major topics which lead to the details.
• Christian History Magazine always has interesting information
• The Ecole Initiative has many resources on the church up to 1500
• Yahoo's list of church history sites
• Christian History Institute site
• Scott Foutz has church history helps at his fun TheologyWebSite.
• Fr. William Harmless has a thorough bibliography of Church History and the rest of Theology.

Original Texts

• The Christians Classics Ethereal Library has the texts of lots of Christian classics including the Church Fathers. Many of them can be downloaded in various formats. Here is their Church Fathers site for example.
• The Fathers Of The Church from the New Advent site
• The Ecole Initiative has the original text of many early Christian writings
• Guide to Christian Literature on the Internet can get you to a copy of most anything!
• Papal Encyclicals Online has the texts of Encyclicals and Bulls
• Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica (or is it Summa Theologiae?) from New Advent
• Project Wittenberg has gathered many of Luther's works together, as well as those of other Lutherans
• Project Gutenberg, the grandaddy of all e-text projects, has many original works available
• Early Christian Writings has assembled a giant list of early texts. (Not all are Christian in the classical sense of the word, but hey, you are a student and you need to know this stuff!)

Secondary Sources

Sorry, most of the links that used to be here have died sometime in the last 7 years.

Early Church

Medieval Church

• Jan Hus as presented by the Moravian Church in America

Eastern Church

• See below under "Modern Orthodoxy." I should like some suggestions as to sites devoted particularly to the history of the Eastern churches.
• Time Line of Church History from an Orthodox perspective
• The Orthodox Church in America's take on Church history

Protestant Church - The Reformation

• Martin Luther - a good site from Germany. Also has Melancthon, Cranach, and Wittenberg information
• Reformation Picture Gallery
• The Lutheran Confessions of the Reformation, including Augsburg and Formula of Concord
• Swiss Reformation Bibliography
• Heidelberg Catechism - a nice Web version of possibly the greatest Protestant statement of faith
• The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
• The Moravian Church
• The Reformation Guide has tons of links to good Reformation data

Anabaptists

• The Schleitheim Confession, an important document of early Anabaptists
• The Canadian Mennonite Encyclopedia - from which the above link was taken

Protestant Church - Post Reformation

• Mark Trigsted's wonderful Jonathan Edwards On-Line page
• Were the Baptists Anabaptists? A good Masters' Thesis discussion is found here.
• Fire and Ice is the name of a site full of Puritan and Reformed writings
• The Character of an Old English Puritan or Non-conformist by John Geree, 1646
• The Victorian Web has an encyclopedic approach to the Victorian era in England, including its religious traditions.

The Modern Church

This section of links can in no way represent the vast diversity of sites on the Internet. Many of the sites noted above have considerable "modern" content to browse. The sites below have been added because they either represent major groups (e.g., the Vatican), or they make significant statements about the state of the modern church in its historical context. There is no attempt to represent any branch of "liberal" theology, since liberalism, whether Catholic or Protestant, represents a denial rather than an interpretation of any historic Christian faith.

Modern Orthodoxy

• The Orthodox Christian Information Center has lots of resources, including refutations of Protestant critiques of Orthodoxy
• Ancient Faith Radio is an Orthodox internet radio station
• The Orthodox Church in America's web site

Modern Roman Catholicism

• The official Vatican web site
• The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 has many good historical articles

Modern Conservative Protestantism

• The White Horse Inn radio program usually has topics which are rooted in history and which affect our lives today. We are so often unaware that the issues which seem so up-to-date have been discussed before. Mike Horton and his crowd will manage to offend you no matter where you stand, but will always educate!
• The Cambridge Declaration of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
• The Founders Online is a website devoted to the resurgence of the Doctrines of Grace ("Calvinism") in the Southern Baptist churches

Catholic or Protestant, or, It doesn't matter?

• Catholic Answers is a collection of pro-Catholic and anti-Protestant apologetics. Its chief target is the Protestant Fundamentalist, but ironically, like a lot of us, they end up resembling their opponents. Not a place for serious historical or doctrinal study.
• Good News for Catholics is a Protestant Evangelical site which takes the view that Catholicism is a false religion from which people should be saved by the Gospel.
• Evangelicals and Catholics Together is a statement, endorsed by many leaders both Catholic and Evangelical, of several things which should unite the two groups. The Gift of Salvation, also called "ECT II," is a further statement along the same lines. Both were published in the magazine First Things, edited by Richard John Neuhaus, himself a Lutheran pastor who converted to Catholicism and who is now a priest.
• An article (PDF format) by John Macarthur criticizing Evangelicals and Catholics Together.
• ProtestantErrors.com. The name says it all.

Christian Art & Music (just a few)

• The Christian Catacombs of Rome - This site, direct from Italy, has good graphics and is from a Catholic perspective.
• Hymns and Carols of Christmas - great resources for some of the best Christian music ever written.
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Copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006 by Mark S. Ritchie. Permission is granted to use materials herein for the building up of the Christian Church. Graphics are not original; they are swiped from the Web. Bibliographic entries for published works quoted may be found in Bibliography page.