DOCTRINE AND HERESIES IN THE EARLY CHURCH

• A Hammer Struck at Heresy - by Robert Payne - Christian History, Summer 1996 - "What exactly happened at the famous Council of Nicea, when the Roman emperor convened some 250 quarreling Christian bishops?"
• Arianism
• Council of Chalcedon (451) Catholic Encyclopedia
• Council of Ephesus (431) Catholic Encyclopedia
• Church and State: Fathers of the Church and Heresies - Fr. Robert J. Fox
• Development of Christian Teachings: The Creeds - Prof. Felix Just, S.J.
  
  
  
• Development of Christian Teachings: The Ecumenical Councils - Prof. Felix Just, S.J.
• Early Christian Writings - Early Church Fathers
• Early Church Fathers - a 38-volume collection of writings from the first 800 years of the Church.
• Finding the Truth - by Justo Gonzalez, Jr.- Christian History, Summer 1996 - "How the earliest church decided Marcion and the Gnostics, among others, were wrong."
• Fine-Tuning the Incarnation - Bruce L. Shelley - Christian History, Summer 1996
• First Council of Nicaea (325) Catholic Encyclopedia
• First General Council of Constantinople 381) Catholic Encyclopedia
• Four Notorious Heretics
• Guide to Early Church Documents - "This hypertext document contains pointers to Internet-accessible files relating to the early church, including canonical
  documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts relevant to church history."
• Heresies
• Heresy - Catholic Encyclopedia
• Latin Literature in Early Christianity - Catholic Encyclopedia
• Monophysites
  
  
  
• Nestorius and the Chaldeaeans
• Pelagius and Pelagianism - Catholic Encyclopedia
• Pelagian Heresy
• St. Pachomius Library - "uncopyrighted English translations of the Church Fathers, the acts of the Christian martyrs, the proceedings of the Councils, the lives of the early saints"
• The First General Council of Nicaea, 325 - by Mgr. Philip Hughes, from "The Church in Crisis: A History of the General Councils, 325 - 1870
• The First General Council of Constantinople, 381 - by Mgr. Philip Hughes, from "The Church in Crisis: A History of the General Councils, 325 - 1870
• The Council of Ephesus
• The Council of Nicea
• The Fathers of the Church - New Advent site - Writings.
• The Great Heresies - By Hilaire Belloc
• The General Council of Ephesus, 431 - by Mgr. Philip Hughes, from "The Church in Crisis: A History of the General Councils, 325 - 1870
• The General Council of Chalcedon, 451 - by Mgr. Philip Hughes, from "The Church in Crisis: A History of the General Councils, 325 - 1870

Bibliographies for the Study of Early Christianity & Patristic Theology
Compiled by William Harmless, S.J., Creighton University

• Patristics #1: Surveys, Introductions & Reference Works
• Patristics #2: Ignatius of Antioch & the Church of the Martyrs
• Patristics #3: Origen & the Rise of Systematic Theology
• Patristics #4: Athanasius & the Trinitarian Controversy
• Patristics #5: Cyril of Alexandria & the Christological Controversy
• Patristics #6: Augustine & the Latin West
• Patristics #7: Antony & Early Monasticism
• Patristics #8: Cyril of Jerusalem & Early Christian Worship
• Patristics #9: Melania the Elder & Women in the Early Church

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