The following bibliography is indicative for the kinds of resources one might consult for research in the Evangelical tradition. This would include focussed studies on Evangelicalism and then wider studies in Protestantism and then still wider studies in orthodox Christianity. No bibliography can provide a bibliography that covers so much ground, so what is offered is simply indicative of the kinds of resources one might use. I have included Pentecostalism in the Evangelical tradition, which already has tensions between Reformed, Lutheran, Wesleyan, and Baptistic traditions. Not all authors are Evangelical, but scholarly work in the fields of Bible, Theology, Ethics, Church History, and Mission contributes toward study in the Evangelical tradition.
Tradition Enquiry: Scripture, Theology, Ethics, Church History, and Mission
An Indicative Bibliography
General Church History
Henry Chadwick, The Early Church: The Story of Emergent Christianity, rev. ed. (New
York: Penguin Books,
1993).
Owen Chadwick, The Penguin History of the Church: The Reformation (New York:
Penguin Books, 1990).
Carlos
M. N. Eire, Reformations: The Early
Modern World, 1450-1650 (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2016).
Donald
Fairbairn, The
Global Church—The First Eight Centuries: From Pentecost through the Rise of
Islam (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2021).
Justo L. González, The Story of Christianity, rev. ed. (New
York: HarperOne, 2014):
Vol. 1: The
Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation
Vol. 2: The Reformation
to the Present Day
R. W. Southern, The Penguin History of the Church: Western Society and the Church in
the Middle Ages (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).
Robert Louis Wilken, The First Thousand Years: A Global History
of Christianity (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2012). [Includes a selection of global persons in Christian
history.]
General Historical Theology
Creeds
Donald Fairbairn and Ryan
M. Reeves, The Story of Creeds and
Confessions: Tracing the Development of the Christian Faith (Grand Rapids,
MI: Baker Academic, 2019).
J. N. D. Kelly, Early Christian Creeds, 3rd ed.
(Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 1982).
Mark Noll, editor, Confessions and Catechisms of the
Reformation (Vancouver: Regent College Pub., 2004).
John Leith, Creeds of the Churches: A Reader in
Christian Doctrine from the Bible to the Present, 3rd ed. (Louisville, KY:
Presbyterian Pub. Corp., 1982).
Jaroslav Pelikan, Credo: Historical and Theological Guide
to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition (New
Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2005).
Philip Schaff, Creeds of Christendom, 3 vols., rev. ed.
(Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1984).
Historical Theology and Ethics
JND Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines, 5th rev. ed.
(New York: HarperOne, 1978).
Tony Lane, A Concise History of Christian Thought,
rev. and expanded (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006).
Louis Berkhof, The History of Christian Doctrines
(Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1983).
Alistair McGrath, Historical Theology: An Introduction to the
History of Christian Thought, 2nd ed. (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
Gregg Allison, Historical Theology: An Introduction to
Christian Doctrine (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2011).
Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition: A History of the
Development of Doctrine, 5 vols. (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press):
Vol.
1: The Emergence of the Catholic
Tradition (100-600) (1995)
Vol.
2: The Spirit of Eastern Christendom
(600-1700) (1977)
Vol.
3: The Growth of Medieval Theology
(600-1300) (1980)
Vol.
4: Reformation of Church and Dogma
(1300-1700) (1985)
Vol.
5: Christian Doctrine and Modern Culture
(Since 1700) (1991)
Justo Gonzalez, A History of Christian Thought, 3 vols.
(Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2014):
. 1:
From the Beginnings to the Council of
Chalcedon (1987)
Vol.
2: From Augustine to the Eve of the
Reformation (1987)
Vol.
3: From the Protestant Reformation to the
Twentieth Century (1987)
Also:
A
History of Christian Thought in One Volume (2014)
White, R. E. O., Christian Ethics:
The Historical Development (John Knox Press, 1981).
J. Philip Wogaman, ed., Christian Ethics:
A Historical Introduction (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993).
Histories of Various Christian Traditions (two mentioned)
Anglican
J. R. H. Moorman and John Moorman, History of the Church in England, 3rd
ed. (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Pub., 1980).
Pentecostalism
Allan Heaton Anderson, To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and
the Transformation of World Christianity (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press,
2013).
Vinson Synan, The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition: Charismatic Movements in the
Twentieth Century (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1997).
Theology
in Various Christian Traditions
Christian Orthodoxy from the Patristic
Era
Donald Fairbairn, Life in the Trinity: An Introduction to
Theology with the Help of the Church Fathers (Downers Grove, IL: IVP
Academic, 2010).
Baptist
Millard J. Erickson, Christian Theology, 3rd ed. (Grand
Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013).
Methodist
Thomas C. Oden, Classic Christianity: A Systematic Theology
(New York: HarperOne, 2009).
Presbyterian
Donald G. Bloesch, Christian Foundations (Downers Grove,
IL: IVP Academic):
A Theology of Word and
Spirit: Authority and Method in Theology (2005)
Holy Scripture:
Revelation, Inspiration & Interpretation (2005)
God the Almighty: Power,
Wisdom, Holiness, Love (2010)
Jesus Christ: Savior &
Lord
(2005)
The Holy Spirit: Works
Gifts
(2005)
The Last Things:
Resurrection, Judgment, Glory (2010)
Richard J. Plantinga,
Thompson R. Thompson, and Matthew D. Lundberg, An Introduction to Christian Theology, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 2022).
Pentecostal
Jonathan Black, Apostolic Theology: A Trinitarian
Evangelical Pentecostal Introduction to Christian Thought (Luton, UK: ACUK,
2016).
Frank D. Macchia, Introduction to Theology: Declaring the
Wonders of God (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023).
Christopher A. Stephenson,
Types of Pentecostal Theology: Method,
System, Spirit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1915).
Wolfgang Vondey, Pentecostal Theology: Living the Full Gospel
(London: T. & T. Clark, 2017).
History
and Theology of Mission
Dictionary
of African Christian Biography; online: https://dacb.org/.
‘Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center;
online: https://ifphc.org/.
Goheen, Michael
W. A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story.
Grand Rapids: Baker
Academic, 2011.
W. J. Larkin and
J. F. Williams, eds., Mission in the New
Testament: An Evangelical Approach. American
Society of Missiology Series 27 (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1998).
Wonsuk Ma, Veli-Matti Karkkainen, and J. Kwabena
Asamoah-Gyadu, eds., Pentecostal Mission and
Global Christianity (Edinburgh Centenary Book 20; Oxford: Regnum Studies in
Mission, 2014).
Stephen Neill, A History of Christian Missions (New
York: Penguin Books, 1991).
Mark Shaw and Wanjiru M. Gitau, The Kingdom of God in Africa: A History of
African Christianity (Carlisle, UK: Langham Global Library, 2020).
Eckhard J.
Schnabel, Paul the Missionary: Realities,
Strategies and Methods (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic,
2008).
Vinay Samuel and
Chris Sugden, Mission as Transformation (Regnum
Studies in Mission; Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2019).
Scott Sunquist, Explorations in Asian Christianity:
History, Theology, and Mission (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2017).
John Mark Terry and
Robert L. Gallagher.,Encountering the History of Missions: From the Early Church to Today (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic,
2017).
Wright, Christopher J. H. The
Mission of God’s People: A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission. Grand Rapids, MI:
Zondervan, 2010.
Studies
in Christian Traditions and Regions
Rollin G. Grams, Stewards
of Grace: A Reflective, Mission
Bibliography of Eugene and Phyllis Grams in South Africa: 1951-1962
(Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2015). [South Africa, Pentecostalism]
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, The Peculiarity of Prophetic Pentecostalism
in South Africa (Lausanne, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2022).
Jesse A. Zink, Christianity and Catastrophe in South Sudan:
Civil War, Migration, and the Rise of Dinka Anglicanism (Waco, TX: Baylor
Univ. Press, 2018).
Baptists in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Rollin G. Grams and Parush
R. Parushev, et al. Towards an Understanding
of European Baptist Identity: Listening to the Churches in Armenia, Bulgaria,
Central Asia, Moldova, North Caucasus, Omsk and Poland (Prague, CZ:
International Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006).
Nathan Feldmeth, S. Donald
Fortson, Garth M. Rosell, and Kenneth J. Stewart, Reformed and Evangelical across Four Centuries: The Presbyterian Story
in America (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2022).
S. Donald Fortson, The Presbyterian Creed: A Confessional
Tradition in America 1729-1870 (Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2015).
Contextual
Theologies
Elias Kifon Bongmba, ed., The Routledge Handbook of African Theology
(London: Routledge, 2020).
William Paul Bowers, ‘African
Theology,’ Africa Journal of Evangelical
Theology 21.2 (2002), pp. 109-125; online at: https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/ajet/21-2_109.pdf.
Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, K. K.
Yeo, eds., Majority World Theology: Christian
Doctrine in Global Context (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2020).
Hwa Yung, Mangoes or Bananas? The Quest for an Asian Christian Theology, 2nd
ed. (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2014).
Old
Testament Theology
W. J.
Dumbrell, The Faith of Israel: A
Theological Survey of the Old Testament.
2nd ed. (Downers Grove,
IL: IVP, 2002).
Stephen J. Gentry, Kingdom
Through Covenant: A Biblical Theological Understanding of the Covenant
(Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012).
Paul R. House, Old Testament Theology (Downers Grove, Il: Inter Varsity Press,
1998).
Hubbard, R. L., Jr., R. K. Johnston,
and R. P. Meye, eds., Studies in Old
Testament Theology (Dallas: Word, 1992).
H.D.
Preuss, Old Testament Theology
(Lexington, KY: Westminster, 1995-6).
Robin Routledge, Old Testament Theology: A Thematic Approach. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2009.
Gerhard Von Rad, Old Testament Theology, trans. D. M. G. Stalker (New York: Harper
and Row):
Vol.
1: The Theology of Israel's Historical
Traditions (1962).
Vol.
2: The Theology of Israel's Prophetic
Traditions. (1965).
Bruce Waltke, An Old Testament Theology.
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011.
New
Testament Theology
James D. G. Dunn, New
Testament Theology: An Introduction (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2009). [In Pauline theology, takes a New Perspective
approach.]
Donald
Guthrie, New Testament Theology
(Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1981).
[Evangelical.]
I. H.
Marshall, New Testament Theology:
Many Witnesses, One Gospel (Downers Grove, IL: IVP,
2004). [Evangelical.]
Brian Rosner, T. Desmond Alexander, and
Graeme Goldswothy, eds., New Dictionary
of Biblical Theology: Exploring Unity and Diversity in Scripture (Downer’s
Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2000).
Thomas Schreiner, New Testament Theology: Magnifying God in Christ (Grand Rapids, MI:
Baker Academic, 2008).
[Evangelical. Southern Baptist.]
Frank S.
Thielman, Theology of the New Testament: A Canonical and
Synthetic Approach (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005). [Evangelical.]
Pauline
Theology
James D. G. Dunn, The Theology of Paul the Apostle (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,
2006).
Gordon D. Fee, Jesus the Lord According to Paul the Apostle: A Concise Introduction (Grand
Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2018).
[Evangelical, Pentecostal.]
Douglas J. Moo, A Theology of Paul and His Letters: The Gift of the New Realm in Christ
(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2021). [Evangelical.]
Herman Ridderbos, Paul: An Outline of His Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,
1997). [A scholarly study of Paul’s
theology organised systematically and from a Reformed perspective.]
Evangelical
Christianity
Joshua Robert
Barron and Mary Kihuha Wanjiku, ‘Introducing the Africa Society of
Evangelical Theology,’ Evangelical Review
of Theology, Vol. 47.4 (2023); online: (99+) Introducing the Africa Society
of Evangelical Theology.
David William Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History
from the 1730s to the 1980s (London: Unwin Hyman, 1989).
Michael F. Bird, Evangelical Theology: A Biblical and Systematic Introduction (Grand
Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2013).
Timoteo D. Gener and Stephen T. Pardue,
eds. Asian Christian Theology:
Evangelical Perspectives (Langham Global Library, 2019).
Journal
of Asian Evangelical Theology; online: Journal of Asian Evangelical Theology – Asia
Theological Association.
Greg Kame, ‘African Theology for the
African Church: The Need for an Evangelical Approach,’ Conspectus (2022); online: African-Theology-for-the-African-Church-The-Need-for-an-Evangelical-Approach.pdf.
Timothy Larsen, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals Leicester,
UK: InterVarsity Press, 2003).
Timothy Larsen and Daniel J. Treier,
eds., The Cambridge Companion to
Evangelical Theology (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Richard F. Lovelace, Dynamics of Spiritual Life: An Evangelical
Theology of Renewal, expanded ed. (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2020).
George
M. Marsden, Fundamentalism and American
Culture, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Gerald
R. McDermott, ed., The Oxford Handbook of
Evangelical Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Leslie Newbiggin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,
1989).
Mark Noll, American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2000); online: American evangelical Christianity : an introduction :
Noll, Mark A., 1946- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Mark Noll, The Rise of Evangelicalism:
The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004).
James I. Packer, Knowing God (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 1973).
J. Daniel Salinas, Taking Up the Mantle: Latin American Evangelical Theology in the 20th
Century (Langham Global Library, 2017).
John R. W. Stott, Basic Christianity, rev. ed. (Grand
Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1981).
Douglas A. Sweeney, The American Evangelical Story: A History of
the Movement (Grand Rapids, MI: BakerAcademic, 2005).
Daniel J. Treier, Introducing Evangelical Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic,
2019).
Daniel J. Treier and Walter A. Elwell,
eds., Evangelical Dictionary of Theology,
3rd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2017).
Daniel J. Treier and Euntaek D. Shin, ‘Evangelical
Theology,’ St. Andrews Encyclopedia of
Theology, eds. Brendan N. Wolfe et.al. (online, 2022); online: Evangelical Theology - St Andrews Encyclopaedia of
Theology.
Amos
Yong, The Future of Evangelical Theology:
Soundings from the Asian American Diaspora (Downers Grove, IL: IVP
Academic, 2014).
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