IV Church History

Note: These are works that address the relationship between Ancient Hellenistic philosophy and the development of Christian theology over the first five centuries of Church history. Greg is most interested in those aspects of Hellenistic philosophy, primarily derived from Platonism and Stoicism that influenced early Christian thinkers to begin to embrace a Hellenistic model of perfection (e.g. God as timeless, impassible, immutable) and that influenced Christian thinking in a deterministic direction. His conviction is that both streams of influence culminate in the theology of Augustine.

T. Allin, The Augustinian Revolution in Theology (London: Clark & Co. 1911) 2

G. R. Boys-Stones, Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of Its Development from the Stoics to Origen (Oxford University Press, 2001) 3

K. Algra, Concepts of Space in Greek Thought (Brill, 1995) 4

D.E. Aune, Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1983) 3

C. P. Bammel, Christian Faith and Greek Philosophy in Late Antiquity (New York: Brill, 1993) 3

R. Vanden Brook, T. Baarda, J. Mansfeld, eds. Knowledge of God in the Graeco-Roman World (Brill, 1988) 3

Peter Brown, Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine (Harper & Row, 1972) 3

J. F. Callahan, Saint Augustine and the Greek Philosophers (Villanova University Press, 1967) 3

D. Carabine, The Unknown God: Negative Theology in the Platonic Tradition (Eerdmans, 1995) 4

H. Chadwick, History and Thought of the Early Church (Variorum Reprints, 1982) 3

Lane Cooper, ed., The Greek Genius and It's Influence (Cornell University Press, 1952) 3

J. Daniélou, Gospel Message and Hellenistic Culture (Westminster, 1973) 3

N.F.Denzey, "Under a Pitiless Sky: Conversion, Cosmology and the Rhetoric of 'Enslavement to Fate' in Second-Century Christian Sources,: PhD Dissertation, Princeton University" (1998) 3

John Dillon, The Middle Platonists (Cornell University Press, 1977) 3

J. Dillon, A. Long, eds., The Question of Eclecticism (University of California Press, 1988) 3

I. Dilman, Free Will: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 1999) 3

E. Ferguson, Backgrounds of Early Christianity (Eerdmans, 3d ed., 2003) 2

---- ed.,Recent Studies in Early Christianity (Garland Publishing, Inc. 1999) 3

T.Finan, V. Twomey, eds. The Relationship Between Neoplatonism and Christianity (Four Courts Press, 1992) 3

R. Grant: Greek Apologists of the Second Century (Westminster Press, 1988) 2

R. Greer, The Fear of Freedom: The Study of Miracles in the Roman Imperial Church (Pennsylvania State University Press 1989) 3

H. F. Hägg, Clement of Alexandria and the Beginnings of Christian Apophaticism (Oxford University Press, 2006) 3

E. Hatch, The Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church (Hendrickson, 1895) 3

C. R. Holladay, J.T. Fitzgerald, G. E. Sterling, J.W. Thompson, eds., Light from the Gentile: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity, 2 vols. (Brill, 2014) 3

W. Jaeger, Early Christianity and Greek Paideia (Harvard University Press, 1961) 3

S. Johnson, Ancient Greek Divination (Blackwell, 2008) 3

M. Joyal, ed. Studies in Plato and the Platonic Tradition (Ashgate, 2002) 4

S. R . C. Lilla, Clement of Alexandria: A Study in Christian Platonism and Gnosticism (Wipf & Stock, rpt. 2005 [1971]) 3

R. A. Markus, ed. Augustine (Doubleday, 1972) 3

J. C. McLelland, God the Anonymous (Philadelphia Patristic Foundation, 1976) 3

R. Mortley, From Word to Silence, 2 Vols (Hanstein: Bonn, 1986) 4

L.G. Patterson, God and History in Early Christian Thought (Seabury Press, 1967) 2

J. Pelikan, Christianity and Classical Culture (Yale University Press, 1993) 3

J. M. Rist, Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized (NY: C.U.P. 1994) 3

William R.. Schoedel, and Robert L. Wilken, eds., Early Christian Literature and the Classical Intellectual Tradition (Éditions Beauchesne, 1979) 3

G. Seel, ed., Ammonius and the Seabattle (Walter de gruyter, 2001) 4

J. Sheil, Greek Thought and the Rise of Christianity (Barnes & Noble, 1963) 3

C. Stead, Doctrine and Philosophy in Early Christianity (Ashgate/Vaviorum, 2000) 3

----Philosophy in Christian Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, rpt., 2003) 3

---- Substance and Illusion in the Christian Fathers (London: Variorum Reprints, 1985) 3

H. B. Timothy, The Early Christian Apologists and Greek Philosophy (Van Gorcum, 1973) 3

G. Vesey, ed., Philosophy in Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 1989) 3

G. Watson, Greek Philosophy and the Christian Notion of God (Columbia University Press,1996) 3

E .G. Weltin, Athens and Jerusalem: An Interpretative Essay On Christianity and Classical Culture (Scholars Press, 1987) 3

L.R. Wickham, C. P. Bammel, eds., Christian Faith and Greek Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Brill, 1993) 3

R. Williams, ed., The Making of Orthodoxy (Cambridge University Press, 1989) 3

D. Winston, The Ancestral Philosophy: Hellenistic Philosophy in Second Temple Judaism (Brown University Press, 2001) 3

Non-violence of the Early Church

Note: These are works that make the case that, prior to the fourth century "Constantian Revolution" when the church first embraced the power of the State, the church generally taught that Christians are called to abstain from all violence.

R. H. Bainton, Christian Attitudes toward War and Peace (Abingdon, 1960) 2

C. J. Cadoux, The Early Christian Attitude to War (Headley Bros., 1919) 2

H. A. Drake, Constantine and the Bishops (John Hopkins University Press, 2002) 3

J. Driver, How Christians Made Peace With War (Wipf & Stock, 2007) 2

J. Herrin, The Formation of Christendom (Princeton University Press, 1987) 3

J. M. Hornus, It is Not Lawful for Me to Fight (Herald, 1980) 2

G. Kalantzis, Caesar and the Lamb: Early Christian Attitudes on War and Military Service (Wipf & Stock, 2012) 3

A. Kee, Constantine Versus Christ (SCM, 1982) 3

R. MacMullen, Christianizing the Roman Empire (A.D. 100-400) (Yale University Press, 1984) 3

P. Middleton, Radical Martyrdom and Cosmic Conflict in Early Christianity (T&T Clark, 2006) 3

K. A. Raaflaub, ed., War and Peace in the Ancient World (Blackwell, 2007) 3

J. D. Roth, ed., Constantine Revisited: Leithart, Yoder, and the Constantinian Debate (Pickwick, 2013) 2

L. J. Swift, The Early Fathers on War and Military Service (Glazier, 1983) 3

The "Dark Side" of Christendom

Note: These are works that address the violence that was carried out by the Church of Christendom throughout history. While many Christians attempt to minimize the evils done by the Church throughout history, Greg's conviction is that followers of Jesus should openly acknowledge and denounce these evils in order to clearly distinguish the violent Church of Christendom from the true Church that follows the example of Jesus, who laid down his life for enemies.

K. Armstrong, Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence (Anchor, rpt.2015) 3

A. Archer, The Crusades (New Word City, 2015) 3

R. Bainton, Hunted Heretic: The Life and Death of Servetus (Beacon, 1953) 1

A. W. Bartlett, Cross Purposes: The Violent Grammar of Christian Atonement (Trinity, 2001) 3

J. Carroll, Constantine's Sword (Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002) 3

H. Ellerbie, The Dark Side of Church History (Morningstar and Lark, 1995) 1

M. Juergensmeyer. M. Kitts, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence (Oxford University Press, 2015) 3

J. Perez, J. Lloyd, The Spanish Inquisition (Yale University Press, 2006) 3

D. Nirenberg, Communities of Violence (Princeton University Press, 1998) 3

J. F. Sohm, Martyrs Mirror (Herald, 2nd rpt.ed., 2001) 2

C. Tyerman, God's War: A New History of the Crusades (Belknap, 2006) 2

Anti-Semitism in Church History

J. Carroll, Constantine's Sword (Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002) 3

E. C. Helmreich, The German Churches Under Hitler (Wayne State University, 1979) 2

E. H. Flannery, The Anguish of the Jews (Paulist, 1985) 3

J. G. Gager, The Origins of Anti-Semitism (Oxford University Press, 1985) 3

D. J. Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners and the Holocaust (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996) 2

L. Poliakov, The History of Anti-Semitism Elek, 1965) 2

D. A. Rausch, A Legacy of Hatred (Moody, 1984) 2

C. Roth, ed., The Dark Ages: Jews in Christian Europe, 711-1096 (Rutgers University Press, 1966) 3

D. Cohn-Sherbok, The Crucified Jew: Twenty Centuries of Christian Anti-Semitism (Eerdmans, 1997) 3

Works About or By Select Theologians in Church History

T. Allin, The Augustinian Revolution in Theology (Clark & Co. 1911) 2

P. Althaus, The Theology of Martin Luther, trans. R. Schultz (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1966) 3

Augustine, Confessions (Oxford University Press, 1991) 2

Augustine, City of God (Image Books, 1958) 2

R. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (Mentor Books, 1955) 1

---- Hunted Heretic: The Life and Death of Servetus (Beacon, 1953) 1

H. U. von Balthasar, Origen, Spirit and Fire (Catholic University of America Press, 1984) 3

B. J. Blosser, Become Like the Angels: Origen's Doctrine of the Soul (Catholic University of America Press, 2012) 3

Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (Random House, 1943) 3

D. Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (The Macmillan Co., rev. ed., 1967) 2

S. Boyd, Pilgram Mapeck (Duke University Press, 1992) 3

H. Chadwick, Augustine (Oxford University Press, 1986) 3

F. Coplestone, Aquinas (Pelican, 1975) 3

J. Daniélou, Origen (Sheed and Ward, 1955) 3

B. Davies, The Thought of Thomas Aquinas (Clarendon, 1992) 3

H. De Lubac, Histoire et Esprit (Aubier, 1950) 3

L. Elders, The Philosophical Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Brill, 1990) 3

G. R. Evans, Augustine On Evil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) 3

T. George, The Theology of the Reformers (Abingdon, 1988) 2

R. C. P. Hanson, Allegory and Event: A Study of the Sources and Significance of Origen's Interpretation of Scripture (Westminster John Knox, 2002 [1959]) 3

C. Kirwan, Augustine (London/New York: Routledge, 1991)

S. H. Lee, The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Princeton University Press, 1988) 3

W. von Loewenich , Luther's Theology of the Cross (Augsburg, 1967) 2

A. McGrath, Luther's Theology of the Cross (Baker, 1985) 2

D. Minns, Irenaeus (Chapman, 1994) 1

Origen, On First Principles (Torchbook, 1966) 3

B. Pascal, Pensées (Penquin Books, rpt. 1975) 2

J. Rist, Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized (Cambridge, 1994) 3

C. Schabel, Theology at Paris, 1316-1345: Peter Aurtol and the Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents (Ashgate, 2000).

G. Tomlin, The Power of the Cross: Theology and the Death of Christ in Paul, Luther and Pascal (Paternoster, 1999).

K.J. Torjesen, Hermeneutical Procedure and Theological Method in Origen's Exegesis (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1985)

H. Oberman, Masters of the Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 1981)

J. W. Trigg, Origen (Routledge, 1998);

--- Origen: The Bible and Philosophy in the Third Century Church (Atlanta: John Knox, 1983).

W. William, Augustine: Aspects of His Life and Thought (Scholars Choice, 2015) 3

A. S. Wood, Captive to the Word: Martin Luther, Doctor of Sacred Scripture (Paternoster, 1969) 2

J. H. Yoder, ed., The Legacy of Michael Sattler (Herald, 1973) 2

Historical Advocates of the Open View of the Future

Note: These are works that espouse an open view of the future (what is today generally known as "Open Theism") prior to the 20th century. In several instances works are anonymous and publisher information is not available.