Introduction
1. Bruce L. Shelley, Church History in Plain Language (Waco: Word, 1982), 9.
Chapter 1 Peter
1. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, 3.1.2.
2. Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis, 7.11.
Chapter 2 Paul
1. Shelley, Church History in Plain Language, 32.
2. See Acts 14:19.
3. Henry Van Dyke, The Works of Henry Van Dyke: Counsels by the Way, vol. XV (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921), 87.
4. John Adams, letter to Benjamin Waterhouse, May 21, 1821. As quoted in Eugene Ehrlich, Marshall De Bruhl, eds, The International Thesaurus of Quotations, rev. ed. (New York: HarperCollins, 1996), 253.
5. Clifton J. Allen, gen. ed., The Broadman Bible Commentary, vol. 10 (Nashville: Broadman, 1970), 124. See Acts 21:15–26.
Chapter 3 Josephus
1. Flavius Josephus, Jewish War, 3.9.
2. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 17.5.2, from The Works of Josephus, trans. William Whiston (Lynn, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1980), 382.
3. Ibid., 18.3.3, 379.
4. Ibid., 20.9.1, 423.
Chapter 4 Polycarp
1. “World Stadiums,” accessed October 1, 2013, http://www.worldstadiums.com/.
2. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, 4.15.1 ff.
1. Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, 8.
2. Justin Martyr, First Apology, 67.
3. Alexander Roberts et al, The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Justin Martyr. Irenaeus (New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1885), 306.
Chapter 6 Clement of Alexandria
1. Edwin Markham, “Outwitted!” The Shore of Happiness and Other Poems (New York: Doubleday, 1915), 1.
2. Shelley, Church History in Plain Language, 96.
3. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, 1.5.
4. Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation, 6.
5. Clement, Miscellanies, 6.8.
6. Ibid.
Chapter 7 Origen
1. Origen, Against Celsus, 8.73.
Chapter 8 Diocletian
1. Tertullian, Apologeticus, 50.
Chapter 9 Eusebius of Caesarea
1. Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977), 23.
2. Eusebius, The History of the Church, 1.1.4.
3. Paraphrase of Epiphanius of Salamis, The Panarion, 5.8.
Chapter 10 Constantine
1. Eusebius, The Life of Constantine, 24.
Chapter 11 Athanasius
1. Athanasius, Thirty-Ninth Festal Epistle, 6.
Chapter 12 Ambrose of Milan
1. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 2, scene 5, lines 156–59.
2. Theodosius, The Theodosian Code (February 28, 380), 16.1.2.
3. Ambrose, Epistle XX, 8.
4. Ambrose, Letter LI, from Phillip Schaff, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, vol. XI (New York: Cosimo, 2007), 451.
5. Theodoret, Ecclesiastical History, 18.
6. Augustine, Confessions, 9.7.
Chapter 13 Jerome
1. Jerome, To Eustochium, 22, 7.
2. Jerome, Address to Pope Damasus (383).
1. Socrates and Sozomenus, Ecclesiastical Histories, 2.1.
2. John Chrysostom, Homilies Concerning the Statues to the People of Antioch, 2.2, trans. J. B. Morris (Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1877), 564.
3. Ibid, 582.
Chapter 15 Augustine of Hippo
1. Augustine, Confessions, 8.7.
2. Ibid., 13.12.
3. Ibid., 9.12.
Chapter 16 Pope Leo I
1. Shelly, Church History in Plain Language, 149.
2. Adapted from Jordanes, The Origins and Deeds of the Goths, trans. Charles Christopher Mierow (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1908), chap. 56.
3. Friedrich Gontard, The Chair of Peter (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964), 142–43.
Chapter 17 The Venerable Bede
1. J. A. Giles, ed., The Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England (London: George Bell & Sons, 1887), 24.
2. Ibid., xx.
3. Ibid.
Chapter 18 Anselm
1. Anselm, Cur Deus Homo, in Henry Bettenson, ed., Documents of the Christian Church, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1963), 137–38.
Chapter 19 Francis of Assisi
1. Adapted from Murray Bodo, OFM, Tales of St. Francis: Ancient Stories for Contemporary Living (New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1988), 24–25.
2. Philip Schaff and David Schley Schaff, History of the Christian Church, vol. 5 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1960), 402.
3. Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, vol. 4 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1960), 70.
4. Francis of Assisi, The Canticle of Brother Sun, in Regis J. Armstrong and Ignatius Brady, eds., Francis and Clare: The Complete Works (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1982), 38.
Chapter 20 Thomas Aquinas
1. D. Kennedy, “St. Thomas Aquinas,” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 14 (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912), accessed October 1, 2013, www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm.
2. Ibid.
3. J. James Dixon Douglas, Philip Wesley Comfort, and Donald R. Mitchell, Who’s Who in Christian History (Wheaton: Tyndale, 1992), 34.
Chapter 21 John Wycliffe
1. Gotthard Victor Lechler, John Wiclif [sic] and His English Precursors, vol. 1 (London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878), 256.
2. Thomas Murray, The Life of John Wycliffe (Edinburgh: John Boyd, 1829), 113.
3. Bruce Shelly, Church History in Plain Language, 3rd ed. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2008), 229.
4. Ibid.
Chapter 22 Nicolaus Copernicus
1. Nicolaus Copernicus, “Preface and Dedication to Pope Paul III,” On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, trans. Charles Glen Wallis, ed. Stephen Hawking (Philadelphia: Running Press Books, 2002), 2.
2. Ibid., 4.
Chapter 23 Martin Luther
1. Shelly, Church History in Plain Language, 239.
2. Ibid., 241.
3. Douglas, Comfort, and Mitchell, Who’s Who in Christian History, 434.
4. Shelly, Church History in Plain Language, 263.
Chapter 24 Ulrich Zwingli
1. Ulrich Zwingli, Sixty-Seven Articles, article 1.
Chapter 25 King Henry VIII
1. Charles Dickens, A Child’s History of England (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1880), 237.
Chapter 27 William Tyndale
1. John Foxe, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, ed. William Byron Forbush (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1978), 184.
2. Erasmus, “Preface,” Novum Instrumentum Omne, in Douglas, Comfort, and Mitchell, Who’s Who in Christian History, 239.
Chapter 28 Menno Simons
1. Menno Simons, “Renunciation of the Church of Rome,” The Complete Works of Menno Simons (Amazon Digital Services, 2011), loc. 182.
2. Ibid., loc. 215.
3. Ibid., loc. 194.
4. Ibid., loc. 182.
5. Ibid., loc. 231.
6. Menno Simons, The Complete Works of Menno Simons, ed. J. C. Wenger, trans. Leonard Verduin (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1974), 670–71.
7. Simons, “Renunciation of the Church of Rome,” loc. 319.
1. Roderick Graham, John Knox, Man of Action (Edinburg: Saint Andrew Press, 2001), 104.
2. John Calvin, personal letter to William Farel, August 20, 1553.
Chapter 31 Jacob Arminius
1. Carl Bangs, Arminius: A Study in the Dutch Reformation (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 1998), 42.
2. Ibid.
Chapter 32 Francis Bacon
1. Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning.
2. Francis Bacon, Of Atheism.
Chapter 33 Galileo Galilei
1. Galileo, Letter to Grand Duchess Christiana, 1615.
2. Galileo, Letter to Benedetto Castelli, 1613.
3. Galileo, Letter to Grand Duchess Christiana.
Chapter 34 Brother Lawrence
1. Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God (Grand Rapids: Revell, 1958), 30–31.
2. Ibid., 97.
3. Ibid., 31.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., 47.
6. Ibid., 39.
Chapter 35 Blaise Pascal
1. Blaise Pascal, The Mind on Fire, ed. James M. Houston (Portland, OR: Multnomah, 1989), 41.
2. Ibid., 129–34.
Chapter 36 John Bunyan
1. John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (New York: Random House/Vintage Spiritual Classics, 2004), 284.
2. John Brown, John Bunyan: This Life Times and Work (New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888), 240.
3. Ibid., 64.
4. Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 284.
Chapter 38 George Frideric Handel
1. Patrick Kavanaugh, Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996), 27.
1. Jonathan Edwards and Henry Rogers, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 1 (London: William Ball, 1839), lxii.
2. Jonathan Edwards, A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God, section 1.
Chapter 40 John Wesley
1. John Wesley, The Journal of the Reverend John Wesley, June 6, 1742.
2. Ibid., January 24, 1738.
3. Ibid., May 19, 1738.
4. Ibid., March 29, 1739.
5. Ibid., June 28, 1774.
Chapter 41 Charles Wesley
1. Charles Wesley, journal entry, May 17, 1738.
Chapter 42 George Whitefield
1. George Whitefield, “A Short Account of God’s Dealings with George Whitefield,” George Whitefield’s Journals (repr., Mulberry, IN: Sovereign Grace Publishers, 2000), 17.
2. Ibid., 26.
3. Ibid., 132.
4. Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard Woods Labaree (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1964 ), 175.
5. Ibid., 91.
6. Ibid., 90.
7. Ibid., 148.
Chapter 43 John Newton
1. John Newton, Thoughts on the Slave Trade (London: J. Buckland, 1788), 2.
2. Richard Cecil, Works of the Rev. John Newton (New York: Robert Carter, 1844), 53.
Chapter 44 William Wilberforce
1. William Wilberforce, On the Question of the Slave Trade (London: J. Walter, 1789), 18.
2. John Hippisley, Essays (London: T. Lowdes, 1764), 17–18.
3. Stephen Tomkins, William Wilberforce: A Biography (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007), 95.
Chapter 45 William Carey
1. Eustace Carey and Francis Wayland, Memoir of William Carey, D.D. (London: Jackson and Walford, 1836), 623.
Chapter 46 Charles Finney
1. The City-Road Magazine, October 5, 1876 (Oxford: Oxford University), 256.
2. Charles Grandison Finney, Memoirs of Rev. Charles G. Finney (New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1876), 15.
1. William Gladstone, The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture (Philadelphia: John D. Wattles & Co., 1896), 7.
2. H. C. G. Matthew, Gladstone 1809–1898 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 336.
3. William Gladstone, personal letter to Sir A. Panizzi, February 8, 1874.
4. Roy Jenkins, Gladstone (New York: Random House, 1997), xvii.
Chapter 48 Fanny Crosby
1. Fanny Crosby, Fanny Crosby’s Life-Story (New York: Every Where Publishing Co., 1903), 13.
2. Ibid., 126.
3. Ibid., 52.
4. Ibid., 127.
Chapter 51 Hudson Taylor
1. David Howard Adeney, China, the Church’s Long March (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1985), 39.
2. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret (Chicago: Moody, 1989), 114.
Chapter 52 Charles Spurgeon
1. Charles H. Spurgeon et al., Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon, vol. 1 (Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1898), 105.
2. Ibid., 106.
3. Ipswich Express, February 27, 1855.
4. C. H. Spurgeon, letter to the editor, The Chelmsford Chronicle, April 24, 1855.
Chapter 53 Dwight L. Moody
1. William R. Moody, The Life of Dwight L. Moody (Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1900), 149.
2. Ibid., 523.
3. Dwight Lyman Moody, Day by Day with D. L. Moody (Chicago: Moody, 1977), 133.
4. Ibid., 554.
Chapter 54 Billy Sunday
1. William Thomas Ellis and Billy Sunday, Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message (Madison, WI: J. C. Winston Co., 1917), 41.
Chapter 55 Oswald Chambers
1. As quoted in Wesley L. Duewel, Ablaze for God (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989), 304.
Chapter 56 G. K. Chesterton
1. G. K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News, March 10, 1906.
2. G. K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1910), 48.
3. G. K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News, April 19, 1930.
1. “T. S. Eliot—Biography,” Nobelprize.org., April 26, 2013, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/eliot-bio.html.
Chapter 58 C. S. Lewis
1. C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (Orlando: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995), 8.
2. C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald: An Anthology (New York: HarperCollins, 1946, repr. 1973), xxxviii.
3. Lewis, Surprised by Joy, 228.
4. Ibid., 237.
Chapter 59 Henry Morris
1. Henry M. Morris, Scientific Creationism (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 1974), iii.
Chapter 60 Billy Graham
1. Richard Nixon, “Memorandum for Bob Haldeman,” December 30, 1969 (Nixon Library).
2. Merle Miller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman (New York: Putnam, 1974), 63.
3. Billy Graham, “Item 9,” Why We Must Go to New York (Minneapolis: BGEA, 1957).