Theology
Recommended Resources: Christian Theology
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McFarland, Ian A. The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2011. With over 550 entries ranging from Abba to Zwingli composed by leading contemporary theologians from around the world, The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology provides an ecumenical introduction to the defining topics in Christian thought. |
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McGrath. Alister E. Christian Theology: An Introduction. 6th ed. Newark: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. Alister McGrath's Christian Theology offers a basic, but comprehensive, introduction to the concepts and key developments of 2,000 years of Christian thought. |
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Kurian, George Thomas. The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization. John Wiley & Sons., 2011. A comprehensive reference work on the history and impact of Christianity. Over 1,400 entries provide an in-depth and dynamic look at Christianity both through its history and the way it has shaped societies around the world. |
Lacoste, Jean-Yves, ed. Encyclopedia of Christian Theology. New York: Routledge, 2017. Provides a critical overview of the significant concepts, events, councils, theologians, philosophers, and movements in Christian theology. |
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A superb, standard Christian theology text for nearly a quarter century, Daniel Migliore's Faith Seeking Understanding explores all of the major Christian doctrines in freshly contemporary ways. |
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Introduces the fundamental historical, systematic, moral and ecclesiological aspects of the study of the church. |
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This comprehensive guide provides succinct definitions to thousands of theological terms, covering a broad range of theological studies and related disciplines. |
Databases, Dictionaries, and Handbooks
- Databases
- Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc. (off-campus access requires Austin Seminary login)
- Introductions, Handbooks, Charts, etc.
Databases
Atla Historical Monographs Collection: Series 1 (circa 1200 through 1893) and Series 2
Provides religious and theological literature from the late 13th century to 1922.
Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials PLUS (off campus access requires login)
The Atla Religion Database is the premier resource for journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with the largest collection of full text religion and theology journals. This database is produced by Atla, a membership association of collectors and connectors in religion and theology.
Credo Reference: Christian History and Theology (off campus access requires login)
Credo is an excellent place to begin when you are first learning about a topic. On this site, you will be able to search encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks on topics ranging from Christianity to other religions to the interactions between religion and society.
JSTOR: Religion and Theology archive collection (off campus access requires login)
This collection covers the history and philosophy of religious thought spanning traditions, periods, and critical approaches. As an archival collection, it includes the full text of journals from their inception through approximately five years ago.
Religion and Philosophy Collection (off campus access requires login)
A full-text collection of journal and magazine content on world religions, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and more.
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc. (off-campus access requires Austin Seminary login)
Introductions, Handbooks, Charts, etc.
Ezigbo, Victor I. Introducing Christian Theologies: Voices From Global Christian Communities. Introducing Christian Theologies. Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, 2016. vol. 1 and vol. 2.
Jones, Gareth, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004.
Kelly, J. N. D. Early Christian Doctrines. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Lamm, Julia A., ed. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2012.
McGrath. Alister E. Christian Theology: An Introduction. 6th ed. Newark: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
Olson, Roger E. The Mosaic of Christian Belief. 2nd Edition. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016.
Ward, Graham, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2001.
Historical Theology (by period)
Early Church
Bingham, D. Jeffrey. The Routledge Companion to Early Christian Thought. London: Routledge, 2011.
Glancy, Jennifer A. Slavery in Early Christianity. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Heffernan, Thomas J. The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Holman, Susan R. Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society. Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Hughes, Kyle R. How the Spirit Became God: The Mosaic of Early Christian Pneumatology. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2020. [access limited to three simultaneous readers]
Kelly, J. N. D. Early Christian Doctrines. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Koester, Helmut. History and Literature of Early Christianity. 2nd ed. New York: De Gruyter, 2000.
Rousseau, Philip. The Early Christian Centuries. Hoboken, NJ: Routledge, 2014.
Medieval
Biller, Peter and A.J. Minnis. Medieval Theology and the Natural Body. York Studies in Medieval Theology. Rochester, NY: York Medieval Press, 1997. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Davies, Brian. The Thought of Thomas Aquinas. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Evans, G. R. Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages. London: Routledge, 1993.
Gilson, Étienne. Medieval Essays. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011.
Madigan, Kevin. Medieval Christianity: A New History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
Rosemann, Philipp W. Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Vos, A. The Theology of John Duns Scotus. Studies in Reformed Theology. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Wickham, Chris. Medieval Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
Reformation
Atherstone, Andrew and Kate Benson. Reformation: A World in Turmoil. Oxford: Lion Books, 2015.
Bierma, Lyle D., Gunnoe, Charles D. Jr., Maag, Karin, and Fields, Paul W. An Introduction to the Heidelberg Catechism: Sources, History, and Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Hinlicky, Paul R. Lutheran Theology: A Critical Introduction. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2020. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
McGrath, Alister E. Reformation Thought: An Introduction. 3rd ed. Oxford, UK: John Wiley and Sons, 2000. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Rublack, Ulinka. The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Modern
Postmodern
Select Works by and about Individual Theologians
Augustine
Primary Sources (Augustine's works)
- - -. Christian Instruction; Admonition and Grace; The Christian Combat; Faith, Hope and Charity. Fathers of the Church. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2002.
- - -. The City of God, books I–VII, books VIII–XVI, books VIII–XVI. The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2008.
- - - Confessions. Translated by Sarah Ruden. New York: Modern Library, 2017.
- - -. The Happy Life; Answer to Skeptics; Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil; Soliloquies. The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation. New York: Catholic University of America Press, 2008.
- - -. The Teacher; The Free Choice of the Will; Grace and Free Will. The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2004.
Secondary Sources (works about Augustine and his works)
Aquinas
- Primary Sources (works by Thomas Aquinas)
- Secondary Sources (works about Thomas Aquinas and his works)
Primary Sources (works by Thomas Aquinas)
- - - . Commentary on the Gospel of John, chapters 1-5, chapters 6-12, chapters 13-21. Thomas Aquinas in Translation Series. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2010.
- - - . De Sortibus: A Letter to a Friend About the Casting of Lots. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021.
- - - . Summa Theologiae. Green Bay, WI: Emmaus Academic, 2017.
I, 1-49
I, 50-119
I-II, 1-70
I-II, 71-114
III, 1-59
III, 60-90
- - - . Treatise on Happiness. Translated by John A. Oesterle. Notre Dame Series in the Great Books. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983.
Secondary Sources (works about Thomas Aquinas and his works)
Emery, Gilles. The Trinitarian Theology of St Thomas Aquinas. Oxford: OUP Oxford, 2007.
Kerr, Fergus. Thomas Aquinas: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP Oxford, 2009.
McCabe, Herbert. On Aquinas. London: Burns & Oates, 2008.
Porro, Pasquale. Thomas Aquinas. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2016.
Regan, Richard J. Compendium of Theology By Thomas Aquinas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Karl Barth
- - - . Church Dogmatics, volume 4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, part 1: The Subject Matter and Problems of the Doctrine. Translated by G. T. Thompson and Harold Knight. Edited by Thomas F. Torrance and Geoffrey William Bromiley. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1956.
Guretzki, David. An Explorer’s Guide to Karl Barth. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Hunsinger, George. Karl Barth and Radical Politics. 2nd ed. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017.
John Calvin
Balserak, Jon. John Calvin As Sixteenth-Century Prophet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- - - . Calvin’s Institutes. Abridged Edition. Edited by Donald K. McKim. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Gordon, Bruce. Calvin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
Gordon, Bruce. John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion: A Biography. Lives of Great Religious Books. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Hart, D. G. Calvinism: A History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.
Helm, Paul. Calvin: A Guide for the Perplexed. Guides for the Perplexed. London: T&T Clark, 2008.
McKim, Donald K. Calvin and the Bible. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Piper, John. John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Steinmetz, David. Calvin in Context. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
James H. Cone
Carter, J. Kameron. Race: A Theological Account. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Cone, James H. The Cross and the Lynching Tree. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2011.
- - - . God of the Oppressed. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2012.
- - - ., and Cornel West. Black Theology and Black Power. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2018.
Martin Luther
Brewer, Brian C. Martin Luther and the Seven Sacraments: A Contemporary Protestant Reappraisal. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2017. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Helmer, Christine. The Global Luther: A Theologian for Modern Times. Fortress Press, 2009.
Kolb, Robert. Martin Luther and the Enduring Word of God: The Wittenberg School and Its Scripture-Centered Proclamation. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2016. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Luther, Martin. The Large Catechism. Grand Rapids, MI: Generic NL Freebook Publisher, 1999.
- - -. A Treatise on Good Works. Auckland, NZ: The Floating Press, 2009.
- - - and Desiderius Erasmus. Luther and Erasmus: Free Will and Salvation. Translated by Ernest Gordon Rupp, and Philip S. Watson. The Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox Press, 1969. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Schleiermacher
Theological Approaches and Traditions
- Asian
- Black
- Catholic
- Eastern Orthodox
- Evangelical
- Feminist
- Latina/o
- LGBTQ
- Liberation
- Presbyterian and Reformed
- Womanist
Asian
Black
Andrews, Dale P., and Robert London Smith. Black Practical Theology. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2015. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Carter, J. Kameron. Race: A Theological Account. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Cone, James H., and Cornel West. Black Theology and Black Power. Maryknoll, NY: ORBIS, 2018.
Jones, William R. Is God a White Racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Reddie, Anthony G. SCM Core Text Black Theology. London: SCM Press, 2012. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Catholic
Eastern Orthodox
Evangelical
Feminist
Althaus-Reid, Marcella. Indecent Theology. London: Routledge, 2000.
Coakley, Sarah. Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Ross, Susan A. Extravagant Affections: A Feminist Sacramental Theology. New York: Continuum, 2001.
Russell, Letty M., and J. Shannon Clarkson. Dictionary of Feminist Theologies. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Latina/o
LGBTQ
Cheng, Patrick S. Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology. New York: Seabury Books, 2011.
Edman, Elizabeth M. Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity. Boston: Beacon Press, 2016. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Loughlin, Gerard. Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. [access limited to three simultaneous readers]
Nolasco, Rolf R., Jr. God’s Beloved Queer: Identity, Spirituality, and Practice. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2019. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]
Liberation
Presbyterian and Reformed
Doctrine
History
Polity
Goncharenko, Simon V. Church Government According to the Bible. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2014.
Office of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A). Annotated Book of Order 2019-2020. Louisville, KY: Office of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), 2019.
Wilton, Carlos. Principles of Presbyterian Polity. Louisville, KY: Geneva Press, 2016.
Womanist
Smith, Mitzi J. I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader. Cascade Books, 2015. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]