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The Scriptures
Hypertext Bible Index
The King James Bible
The Vulgate (Latin Bible)
The ApocryphaBible Commentary
The Complete Sayings of Jesusby Arthur Hinds, int. by Norman Vincent Peale [1927]
Read everything Jesus says in the New Testament in one sitting.
Gnosticism, etc.
There is now a separate Gnosticism Index.
Pistis SophiaTranslated by G.R.S. Mead [1921].
Corpus HermeticumTranslated by G.R.S. Mead
The Hymn of Jesus, Echoes from the Gnosistr. by G.R.S. Mead [1907].
Gnostic John the BaptizerSelections from the Mandæan John-Book, tr. by G.R.S. Mead [1924].
Note: While the Mandaeans are not Christians, this text is important for the study of Gnostic beliefs -- editor.
The Book of GiantsA fragmentary Manichaean text.
Apocrypha Arabicaby Margaret Dunlop Gibson [1901]
Early Christian
The Gospel of Thomas [ca. 200 C.E.]
The Lord's Prayer
Hail Mary (Ave Maria)
The Apostles' Creed
Nicene Creed
The Athanasian Creed
The Confessions Of Saint Augustine
[401 C.E.]
Writings of the Early Church FathersThanks to the Christian Classics Ethereal Library
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite (ca. 400 C.E.)by Dionysius the Areopagite, tr. by John Parker [1897]
A very early Christian mystic writer with Neoplatonist influences.
Eastern Churches
The Book of the BeeEdited and translated by E. A. Wallis Budge [1886]
A Nestorian Christian sacred history.
The Book of the Cave of Treasurestranslated from the Syriac by E. A. Wallis Budge [1927]
The Kebra Nagasttr. by E. A. Wallis Budge [1932]
The legendary history of Ethiopia.
Mediaeval, Renaissance and Reformation
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England (731)by Bede, ed. by A.M. Sellar [1907]
Works of St. Anselm (b. 1033 d. 1109)by St. Anselm of Canterbury, tr. by Sidney Norton Deane [1903]
A medieval Italian scholar who originated the ontological argument for the existence of God.
The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise (1128)Tr. by Anonymous, edited by Israel Gollancz and Honnor Morten [1901]
The tragic romance of two top Christian intellectuals in 12th century France.
The Story of My Misfortunes: The Autobiography of Peter AbelardTr. by Henry Adams Bellows [1922]
The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi (b. 1181 d. 1226)by Paschal Robinson [1905]
Includes the Canticle of the Sun, a moving prayer of praise to "Brother Sun, Sister Moon."
The Little Flowers of St. FrancisTrans. by W. Heywood [1906]
The legends of St. Francis and the early Franciscans.
Summa Theologica (1265-1274)by St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. by The Fathers of the English Dominican Province [1948]
An encylopedia-length work which deals with every concievable aspect of Catholic theology.
The Divine Comedy (1306-21)by Dante Alighieri, tr. by Henry F. Cary, [1888]
The Cloud of Unknowing (ca. 1400)by Anonymous, ed. by Evelyn Underhill [1922]
Meditations of an anonymous 14th century Christian mystic.
Imitation of Christ (ca. 1418)by Thomas a Kempis, tr. by William Benham [1886]
A contemplative classic of Christian mysticism.
Texts of Martin Luther (b. 1483 d. 1546)
Texts of John Calvin (b. 1509 d. 1564)
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
by John Foxe
[ca. 1560]
Synod of Dordrecht [1618-9]
Heidelberg Catechism
The Second Helvetic Confession
Church Order(Reformed Churches of the Netherlands) [1618-9]
Liturgy of the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands
Westminster Shorter Catechism
[1674]
The Westminster Confession Of Faith
Westminster Larger Catechism
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regainedby John Milton [1667 and 1671]
Pilgrim's Progressby John Bunyan [1678]
Bunyanby James Anthony Froude [1901]
A biography of the author of Pilgrim's Progress.
Angelus Silesius
Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderertrans. with intro. by J. E. Crawford Flitch [1932]
Alexandrines: translated from the "Cherubinischer Wandersmann",Julia Bilger [1944]
The Interior Castleor, The Mansions, by St. Teresa of Avila [1921]
A roadmap to mystical union with God.
Ordinary of the Mass[1921] [Latin and English]
The core text of the Catholic liturgy, in parallel Latin and English.
Modern
Unitarian ChristianityBy William Ellery Channing [1819]
New England Primer[1843]
Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christby William Miller [1842]
Miller predicted that Jesus would return in 1844.
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christby Anne Catherine Emmerich [1843]
The primary source for the movie 'The Passion of the Christ.'
The Great Controversyby Ellen G. White [1858]
One of the earliest documents of the movement which became the Seventh-day Adventists.
Notes on the Book of the Revelationby John Nelson Darby [1876] (2nd ed.)
The Man of Sorrowsby John Nelson Darby [no date (pre-1882)]
Shaker documents
The Unknown Life of Jesus Christby Nicolas Notovitch, trans. by J. H. Connelly and L. Landsberg [1890]
Did Jesus spend his lost years in India?
The Baltimore (Catholic) Catechism
[1891]
Lives of the Saintsby Alban Butler, John Gilmary Shea (Benziger Bros. ed.) [1894]
400 Catholic Saints' days from around the year
The Doctrine of the Last Thingsby W.O.E. Oesterley [1908]
Eschatology for everyone.
The Seeming Unreality of the Spiritual Lifeby Henry Churchill King [1908]
Jesus, the Last Great Initiateby Edouard Schuré, tr. by F. Rothwell [1908]
The historical context of Jesus, and the esoteric significance of his teachings.
Folk-lore of the Holy Landby J. E. Hanauer [1909]
Moslem, Christian and Jewish tales from old Palestine.
Science and Health with Key to the Scripturesby Mary Baker Eddy [1910]
John Wesley's Place in Historyby Woodrow Wilson [1915]
The Book of Revelationby Clarence Larkin [1919]
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christby Levi H. Dowling [1920]
The Gist of Swedenborgby Julian K. Smyth and William F. Wunsch [1920]
The Political Aspects of S. Augustine's 'City of God'by John Neville Figgis [1921]
Human Nature in the Bible
by William Lyon Phelps [1922]
Pageant of the Popesby John Farrow [1942]
Two thousand years of papal history in one continuous narrative.
The Trial of Christby David K. Breed [1948]
Could Jesus have been acquitted on a technicality?
The Theological Declaration of Barmen[1934]
The (Episcopal) Book of Common Prayer[1979]
External Sites
The community of Christian etext redactors is very active,
and transcriptions of public domain books on the topic are abundant.
The following are archives of public domain etexts about Christianity and
related topics, which contain much more material than we have
room or bandwidth for at this site.
Some of these are:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
This is probably the largest general purpose archive of Christian texts.
Additional Early Church Fathers at the Tertullian Project website.
This dovetails with the 'Early Church Fathers' collection at CCEL.
The Unbound Bible
has the best collection of downloadable Bible data files anywhere. Highly recommended.
Digital Christian Library
and related topics,
with many unique items, by a very active scanner who has
The Gnostic Society
A collection of shorter texts on Gnosticism.
Also has a collection of Dead Sea Scroll translations.
The Catholic Encyclopeda
This is a project to put online this huge work from 1913.
Project Wittenberg
A comprehensive archive of Lutheran texts, of general interest
for the study of Protestantism.
Quaker Heritage Press
publishes etexts of rare and out-of-print Quaker documents.
Restoration Movement Texts.
Primary texts of a 19th century American
religious movement,
predecessor of Churches of Christ,
the Christian Churches,
and the Disciples of Christ, among other groups.
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