REcOMMENdEd booKS: EArLy CHuRcH RELatEd

 

“But when God; who had chosen me and set me apart before I was born, and called me by His grace; was pleased to reveal His Son in me,that I might preach Him among the Gentiles,

 

my immediate decision was to not consult with any human being. 

 

I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went at once to Arabia, and afterwards returned again to Damascus;

 

after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.”

 

-The Apostle Paul (Galatians 1:15-18)   

 

Areopagus ("Mars Hill"). Facing the Acropolis in Athens, Paul preached atop it in 51 A.D. (Acts 17:16-34). Lay Monk Preston & Lay Monk Linda climbed it: a hill of marble, worn slippery smooth by millions of pilgrims over the past 2,000 years.
"Appian Way" in Rome.
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Cappadocia: Early Christians hid here from Roman persecution.

 “You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.”

-St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria

   (296-373 A.D.) 

   

         Our Monastery Library contains our 200 favorite Christian Books.     

                              In the past, we have Reviewed all of them on our website.                             

For our Site Visitors,

we have narrowed them down to these that we consider to be the Best of the Best!

 These Books may Be Available in Print, Audio, or Ebook Formats, and Free at Your Public Library.

 

EArLy CHuRcH ReLatEd - prActicE

"Christ, Baptism, and the Lord's Supper: Recovering the Sacraments for Evangelical Use" by Leonard J. Vander Zee
"Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World" by Robert E. Webber
"Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God's Narrative" by Robert E. Webber
"Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year" by Robert E. Webber
"A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church" by Calvin R. Stapert
"Beyond Smells and Bells: The Wonder and Power of Christian Liturgy" by Mark Galli

Practice

EArLy CHuRcH RELatEd - tEAching

(Click On/See Review) "The Sign of the Cross: The Gesture, The Mystery, The History" by Andreas Andreopoulos
"Getting to Know the Church Fathers: An Evangelical Introduction" by Bryan M. Litfin
"Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers" by Christopher A. Hall
"Learning Theology with the Church Fathers" by Christopher A. Hall
"Worshipping with the Church Fathers" by Christopher A. Hall
"Living Wisely with the Church Fathers" by Christopher A. Hall

CHuRcH HiStoRiiES

HiStORy of doctRiNE & LituRGy

"Church History in Plain Language" by Bruce L. Shelley
"History of the Christian Church" (Vol. 1-8) by Philip Schaff
"The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine" by Eusebius (Scholarly)
"The Christian Tradition" (Vol.1-5) by Jaroslav Pelikan (History of Doctrine: Scholarly)
"Credo" by Jaroslav Pelikan (History of Creeds & Confessions: Scholarly)
"The Shape of the Liturgy" by Dom Gregory Dix (Scholarly)

cOMMENtaRiiES & EARLY CHURCH cLaSSiCS

"The Treasury of David" by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Christ in the Psalms" by Patrick Henry Reardon
"Ancient Christian Commentary On Scripture" Editors: Charles C. Oden & Christopher A. Hall (29 Volumes)
"On the Incarnation" by St. Athanasius Foreward by C.S. Lewis (Written Before 397 A.D.: Scholarly)
"Confessions" by St. Augustine (The Second Autobiography ever Written 397-400 A.D.)
"'I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, says the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." -Revelation 1:8
Our Worship Service

c.S. LEwiS ON REAdiNG OLd booKS:

“It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

 

If that is too much for you, you should at least read one old one

to every three new ones.”

“On the Incarnation” by St. Athanasius  –With an Introduction by C.S. Lewis

 

“We may be sure that…the blindness about

which posterity will ask,

‘But how could they have thought that?”’

-lies where we never suspected it…

 

None of us can fully escape this blindness, 

but we shall certainly increase it…

 

…if we read only modern books.

 

Where they are true they will give us truths

which we half knew already. 

 

Where they are false they will

aggravate the error with

which we are already dangerously ill. 

 

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea

breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds,

 

and this can be done only

by reading old books.” 

____________________

                                           

-C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

From his Introduction to:

 “On the Incarnation” by St. Athanasius

 

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