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One-volume Dictionaries of Church History

Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church by F.L. Cross
Call Number: BR95 .O912 2005 Ref.
ISBN: 0192802909
Publication Date: 2005
The new Westminster dictionary of church history by Robert Benedetto, James O Duke
Call Number: BR95 .B76 2008 Ref
ISBN: 9780664224165
Publication Date: 2008
The New international dictionary of the Christian Church by J.D. Douglas
Call Number: BR95 D746N Ref.
Publication Date: 1974
Dictionary of Christianity in America by Daniel G Reid, Robert Dean Linder, Bruce L Shelley, Harry S Stout, Robert Dean Linder
Call Number: BR515 .D53 1990
Publication Date: 1990

Early Christianity

Encyclopedia of the Ancient Christianity: 3 vols. by Angelo Di Berardino; T. Oden et al.
Call Number: BR66.5 .D58 Ref
Publication Date: 2014
Dictionary of Early Christian Literature
Call Number: BR66.5 .L4913 Ref
Publication Date: 2000
The Oxford handbook of early Christian studies by Susan Ashbrook. Harvey, David G. Hunter
Call Number: BR121.3 .O93
Publication Date: 2008
The Westminster dictionary of New Testament and early Christian literature and rhetoric by David Aune
Call Number: BS2312 .A96 Ref.
Publication Date: 2003

Medieval Christianity/ Patristics

Atlas of the medieval world by Rosamond. McKitterick
Call Number: G1034 .M24
Publication Date: 2004
The historical atlas of Eastern and Western Christian monasticism by Juan María. Laboa, Richard Čemus
Call Number: G1046.E4 L32 Fol.
Publication Date: 2003
Augustine through the ages : an encyclopedia by Allan. Fitzgerald, John C. Cavadini
Call Number: BR65.A74 A93 Ref.
Publication Date: 1999
The Oxford guide to the historical reception of Augustine: 3 vols. by Karla Pollmann, Willemien Otten
Call Number: BR65 .A75 O93 Ref
Publication Date: 2013
Nicene and post-Nicene Fathers. Second series: 14 vols. by Philip Schaff
Call Number: BR60 .N52 1994 Ref.
Publication Date: 1994
Ante-Nicene fathers : the writings of the fathers down to A.D. 325: 10 vols by Alexander Roberts, ed.
Call Number: BR60 .A5 1994
Publication Date: 1994

American Christianity

Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States: 5 vols by Mark Lamport, George Kurian
Call Number: BR515 .E498 Ref.
Publication Date: 2016
Encyclopedia of religious controversies in the United States. by Bill Leonard
Call Number: BR515 .E52 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Lutherans in America: A New History (eBook) by Mark Granquist
Call Number: BX8041 .G726 ebook
ISBN: 9781451494297
Publication Date: 2015

Global Christianity

Global dictionary of theology : a resource for the worldwide church by William A. Dyrness, Veli-Matti. Kärkkäinen, Juan Francisco Martínez
Call Number: BR95 .G58 Ref.
Publication Date: 2008
Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran traditions by Timothy J Wengert (Editor.), Mark Alan Granquist (Editor.), Mary Jane Haemig (Editor.), Robert Kolb (Editor.), Mark C Mattes (Editor.), Jonathan Strom (Editor.)
Call Number: BX8007 .D52
ISBN: 9780801049699
Publication Date: 2017
A dictionary of Asian christianity by Scott Sunquist
Call Number: BR1065 .D52 Ref.
Publication Date: 2001
Historical dictionary of the Coptic Church by Gawdat. Gabra, Birger A. Pearson, Mark Swanson
Call Number: BX130.5 .G32
Publication Date: 2008
The first thousand years : a global history of Christianity by Robert Wilken
Call Number: BR162.3 .W54
Publication Date: 2012
The Wiley Blackwell companion to world Christianity by Lamin O. Sanneh, Michael J. McClymond
Call Number: an eBook
Publication Date: 2016
Ancient African Christianity : an introduction to a unique context and tradition by David Wilhite
Call Number: BR190 .W54
Publication Date: 2017
The Oxford encyclopaedia of South Asian Christianity by Roger Hedlund
Call Number: BR1143 .O93 Ref
Publication Date: 2012

History of Doctrine

Early Christian creeds by J. N. D. Kelly
Call Number: BT990 .K431 2006
Publication Date: 2006
Creeds & confessions of faith in the Christian tradition: 4 vols by Pelikan & Hotchkiss
Call Number: BT990 .C83 Ref.
Publication Date: 2003

Atlases and Geographical Sources

Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman world by Richard J. A. Talbert, Roger S. Bagnall
Call Number: G1033 .B37 Ref.
Publication Date: 2000
Brill's New Pauly Historical Atlas of the Ancient World
Call Number: G1033 .H5713 Ref
Atlas of global Christianity 1910-2010 by Todd M. Johnson, Kenneth R. Ross, Sandra S. K. Lee
Call Number: BR479 .A844 Ref.
Publication Date: 2009
The sacred bridge : Carta's atlas of the Biblical world by Anson F. Rainey, R. Steven. Notley,
Call Number: BS630 .R34 Fo
Publication Date: 2006
Historical atlas of Christianity by Franklin H. Littell
Call Number: G1046.E4 L5 2001
The Routledge historical atlas of religion in America by Bret Carroll
Publication Date: 2000

Reformation studies (also see 'Martin Luther' LibGuide)

Atlas of the European Reformations by Tim Dowley
Call Number: BR307 .D68
Publication Date: 2015
Historical dictionary of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation by Hans Hillerbrand
Call Number: BR302.8 .H54
Publication Date: 2000
The Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation (eBook format) by Hans Joachim. Hillerbrand
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 1996

Key Journals and Databases for Church History

Church History (print & online)
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Anglican and Episcopal History
Christian History & Biography
Early Christianitiy
Fides et Historia (in ATLA database only)
Archive for Reformation History

Key Databases for research in the History of Christianity:

Augustine: The Works of St. Augustine

Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Post-Reformation Digital Library

Religious and Theological Abstracts