Bibliography

I have a far more extensive bibliography at the other blog, to include many books from authors like GK Chesterton and CS Lewis, along with dozens of other books I have reviewed and written about on the Middle Ages, war, and general history and political thought.

This bibliography below includes posts from both my other blog and this current one, specifically related to my Christian journey – my learning of doctrine and theology through history, and, most importantly, my desire to grow in Christ.

You will see posts without links. These have been written but either a) not yet published at the time of updating this page, or b) have been published, but I just haven’t come around to the administrative task of updating this page.

• Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, Jesus Christ: His Life and Teaching, Vol.2 - The Sermon on the Mount

• D. Martin Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

  • How Should We Then Live?

  • The Beatitudes

  • Blessed are the Poor in Spirit…

  • Blessed are They That Mourn…

  • Blessed are the Meek…

  • Blessed are They Which do Hunger and Thirst After Righteousness…

  • Blessed are the Merciful…

  • Blessed Are the Pure in Heart…

  • Blessed are the Peacemakers…

  • Blessed are They Which are Persecuted for Righteousness’ Sake….

  • The Teaching That is Foolishness: Summarizing the Beatitudes

  • Salt

  • Light

  • The Law and the Prophets

  • Ye Have Heard That It Was Said…

  • Thou Shalt Not Kill…

  • The Look of Lust

  • Keep it Simple

  • Resist Not Evil

  • Love Your Enemies

  • Be Ye Therefore Perfect…

  • Sanctification

  • The Christian Life in This World

  • Lord, Teach Us To Pray

  • Praying to God and His Glory

  • Some “Me” Time

  • God or Mammon

  • What, Me Worry?

  • Judge Not

  • Dogs and Swine

  • Ask, Seek, Knock

  • We Just Have One Job…

  • What Are You Doing About It?

  • The Narrow Gate

  • The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

  • Rock and Sand

  • The People Were Astonished

  • Christianity Without Effort

• Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, Jesus Christ: His Life and Teaching, Vol.4 - The Parables of Jesus

  • Parables

  • The Sower

  • Wheat and Tares

  • Seeds

  • Leaven

  • The Treasure and a Pearl

  • The Net

  • The Two Debtors

  • The Lost Sheep

  • The Unmerciful Servant

  • The Good Samaritan

  • Persistence

  • The Rich Fool

  • The Watchful Servants

  • The Barren Fig Tree

  • Count the Cost

  • The Prodigal Son

  • The Prodigal Son (Part Two)

  • The Unjust Steward

  • The Rich Man and Lazarus

  • Faith AND Works

  • The Publican and the Pharisee

  • The Laborers in the Vineyard

  • The Two Sons

  • The Wicked Tenants

  • The Wedding Feast

  • The Wise and Foolish Virgins

  • The Talents and Minas

  • Awaiting the Master of the House

• St. Anselm, Cur Deus Homo: Why God Became Man (also online)

  • Repaying Stolen Honor

  • What Man Took From God…

  • Partakers of His Reward

• St. Athanasius, Against the Heathen (Contra Gentiles) (html)

  • Contra Gentiles

  • The Problem of Evil

  • Idols

  • Pagan Worship

  • The Knowledge of God

  • The Word of God

• St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation

  • The Value of the Ancients

  • In the Beginning was the Word

  • He Had to Be

  • The Divinity of the Word

  • Death and Resurrection

• Matthew Barrett, The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church

  • Reforming the Reformation

  • Just Who is Catholic?

  • Quit Blaming Luther for the Ills of Today

  • Reformation Myth-Busting

  • From Monasticism to Reformation

  • Anselm and the Reformation…

  • Sentences

  • The “Sounder Scholastic”

  • Luther and Thomas

  • Thematic Continuity

  • The Provocation

  • Christian Platonism

  • A Capricious God?

  • The Flourishing of Nominalism

  • The Role of Humanism

  • Tradition?

  • Deviating From the Faith

  • Luther’s Mentor

  • The Hammer

  • The Printing Press

  • Birthing Pains

  • Unwitting Allies

  • Giving Form to The Reformation

  • Swiss Reform

  • A Man With Conviction

  • Repairing the Breach

  • The Zwickau Prophets

  • Radical Reformers

  • Distinct but not Separate

  • Rehabilitation

  • Return

  • Two Kingdoms

  • Hope and Discouragement…

  • William Tyndale

  • The Church of England

  • Scotland

  • Trent

· John Behr, The Way to Nicaea

o Who Do You Say That I Am?

o The Two Main Challenges

o The Hypothesis

o Tradition Grounded in Scripture

o The Christ of Scripture

o The Word

o Salvation

o Ignatius of Antioch

o Justin Martyr

o Justin Martyr, Part Two

o Irenaeus of Lyons

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· Daniel Boyarin, The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ

o Jewish Christology

o The Son of Man

o Daniel 7

o Why Would Jews Believe Jesus Was God?

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· Francis Dvornik, The Ecumenical Councils (html)

o It Seemed Good to the Holy Spirit

o Describing Christ’s Nature

· R. Kent Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Man

o Spiritual Discipline

o Fatherhood and Friendship

o Discipline the Mind

o A Fruitful Interior Life

o Disciplined Worship

o Integrity

o Work

o Church

· Philip Jenkins, The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died

o Those Other Christians

o Loss…and a Remnant

o Go East Young Man

o Claiming Tradition

o Neither Rome nor Constantinople

o Obliteration and Destruction

o The Cleansing

o Heading Toward the Grave

o Refuge in the Hills…

• C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

  • Mere Christianity

  • Human Nature’s Law

  • What Christians Believe

  • Three Parts of Morality

  • The Cardinal Virtues

  • Morality

  • Pride

  • Forgiveness

  • Charity & Hope

  • Faith

  • Theology

  • Christ and Man

  • Practice Makes Perfect

• Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will; translation and introduction by J. I. Packer & O. R. Johnston

  • Standing at the Crossroads

  • Sympathy and Confrontation

  • The Final Divide

• Michael Massing, Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

  • Translation Transformation

  • Indulge Me

  • Luther’s “Road to Damascus” Moments

  • The Critical Juncture in the West

  • Making Slaves of Freed Men

  • Mere Christianity: The Prequel

• Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

  • Humility

  • Overcoming Pride

  • Beyond Our Reach

  • To Die is To Live

  • Jesus is the Proof

• Andrew Murray, Absolute Surrender

  • Absolute Surrender

  • The Fruit of the Spirit is Love

  • Separated Unto the Holy Spirit

  • Peter’s Repentance

  • Only Possible With God

  • O Wretched Man That I Am

  • Having Begun in the Spirit

  • Kept By the Power of God

  • Ye Are the Branches

• James R. Payton, Jr., Editor, A Patristic Treasury: Early Church Wisdom for Today

  • Early Church Wisdom

  • The Apostolic Fathers

  • The Letters

  • Rhetoricians

  • Justin Martyr

  • Irenaeus

  • Rome From Greek to Latin

  • Alexandria

  • Tertullian

  • From Persecution to Empire

  • The Desert Fathers

  • The Sayings of the Fathers

  • Pseudo-Macarius

  • Athanasius

  • Cyril of Jerusalem

  • Basil of Caesarea

  • Gregory Nazianzen

  • Gregory of Nyssa

  • John Chrysostom

  • John Chrysostom, On the Priesthood

  • John Chrysostom, On the Incomprehensible Nature of God

  • Cyril of Alexandria

  • Hilary of Poitiers

  • Ambrose

  • Jerome & Rufinus

  • Augustine

  • Augustine, Part Two

  • Augustine, Part Three

  • Southern France

  • Leo the Great

  • Julianus Pomerius

  • Gregory the Great

  • Pseudo-Dionysius

  • Maximus the Confessor

  • John of Damascus

• Fr. V. C. Samuel, The Council of Chalcedon Re-Examined

  • Developing Doctrine

  • Framing the Controversy

  • Man or Flesh?

  • Reunion … Sort of ….

  • The Trial

  • Your Serve

  • The Road to Chalcedon: A Review

  • Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards

  • Agreement or Power?

  • Words Cannot Explain…

  • The Dust Doesn’t Settle

  • Politics, Empire, War

  • Chalcedon: The Aftermath

· Karekin Sarkissian, The Council of Chalcedon and the Armenian Church

o Rejecting Chalcedon

o Nestorianism and Chalcedon

o A New Language

o A Nestorian Redux?

o Post-Chalcedon

o Living Between Two Worlds

o Living Between Two Worlds II

o Between Ephesus and Chalcedon

o Between Ephesus and Chalcedon: An Analysis

o The Historical Situation Post-Chalcedon

o The Doctrinal Situation

o Rejection

· Stuart Scott, From Pride to Humility

o From Pride to Humility