Bibliography of Principal Resources
For the Saints’ Meditations Archive
Anglican & Anglo-Catholic Tradition · 1928 BCP & People’s Anglican Missal
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A Note on the Selection
The works listed here are those of established and durable authority — primary sources in critical editions, standard scholarly reference works, and devotional classics whose value has been confirmed by generations of use. The selection follows the principle stated in the archive’s title: non-ephemeral. No works published after 1990 are included except where they represent the definitive modern critical edition of a much older text. No internet resources are included. The works are arranged by the series they most directly support, with general reference works listed first.
Editions noted are those of greatest accessibility and reliability. Where a work exists in multiple translations, the translator recommended is the one whose English prose best serves devotional as well as scholarly use. Where the Latin or Greek original is the standard of reference, it is noted.
I. Primary Liturgical Texts
The living documents of the tradition from which all meditations draw their language and their theology.
The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 (American) and 1662 (English). Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press publish authoritative editions of both — The 1928 BCP and the 1662 are the twin fountains of the liturgical language used throughout the archive. The 1928 should be read alongside the 1662 to understand what was retained, what was recovered, and what was added.
The People’s Anglican Missal, 5th edn, Frank Gavin Liturgical Foundation. Standard Anglo-Catholic supplementary missal based on the 1928 BCP — Contains the Kalendar with saints’ collects, the propers for all feasts, the Canon, Benediction, and the full sacramental life of the Anglo-Catholic tradition.
The Sarum Missal, ed. J. Wickham Legg (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916). Critical edition of the pre-Reformation English rite — The root from which Cranmer’s prayer book grew. Essential for understanding the continuity of the Anglican liturgy with the medieval Western rite.
The Roman Breviary, Various editions. The standard Latin breviary — For comparison with the BCP Daily Office, and for the Latin texts of the antiphons and canticles.
Cranmer, Thomas, The Two Liturgies of Edward VI. Parker Society edition; reprinted Cambridge University Press — The 1549 and 1552 Prayer Books in critical edition with notes. Indispensable for understanding the theology of the BCP.
II. The Holy Scriptures
The translations that have formed the English-speaking Church’s theological imagination.
The Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorised Version), 1611. Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press publish the standard text — The translation whose rhythms and phrases animate the entire archive. The Tyndale debt (80–90% of the New Testament) is discussed in the William Tyndale meditation.
The Revised Standard Version, National Council of Churches, 1952; Catholic Edition 1966 — The most widely used modern scholarly translation for serious study. The RSV Catholic Edition is especially useful for Patristic and devotional cross-reference.
Tyndale, William, The New Testament (1526) and Pentateuch (1530). Modern edition: David Daniell, ed. (Yale University Press) — The original translations from which the KJV springs. The Daniell editions are the standard scholarly texts.
The Septuagint, Various editions; the Brenton parallel edition (Hendrickson) is standard. Greek Old Testament with English translation — Essential for understanding the Patristic citations and the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament.
III. Hagiography & Kalendar Reference
The standard reference works for the lives and feasts of the saints.
Butler, Alban, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints. Ed. Herbert Thurston and Donald Attwater, 4 vols. (London: Burns & Oates, 1956) — The standard English Catholic reference for saints’ lives, season by season. The Thurston-Attwater edition is critical and reliable where earlier editions were credulous. Indispensable for the archive.
Farmer, David Hugh, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. 5th edn (Oxford University Press, 2003) — The standard scholarly reference for saints in the English and Welsh tradition. Concise, reliable, and invaluable for the Northumbrian and Celtic series.
Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend. Tr. William Granger Ryan, 2 vols. (Princeton University Press, 1993) — The medieval hagiographical encyclopaedia. Not critically reliable but enormously important for understanding how the tradition received and transmitted the saints’ stories. The Ryan translation is the standard modern English edition.
Bede, the Venerable, Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Tr. Leo Sherley-Price, rev. R. E. Latham (Penguin Classics, 1990) — The primary source for the Northumbrian series. The Sherley-Price translation in the Penguin Classics edition is the standard accessible version. The Latin critical edition is in the Bede’s Opera Historica (Oxford, Plummer).
Eusebius of Caesarea, The History of the Church. Tr. G. A. Williamson, rev. Andrew Louth (Penguin Classics, 1989) — The primary Patristic source for the apostolic and sub-apostolic tradition. The Williamson translation revised by Louth is the standard English edition.
Walton, Izaak, Lives. Ed. S. B. Carter (Oxford: Oxford University Press) — The lives of Donne, Herbert, Hooker, Wotton, and Sanderson by the seventeenth-century biographer. Charming, sometimes inaccurate, and irreplaceable as primary testimony.
IV. The Patristic Tradition
Primary texts and standard reference works for Series II.
Series Editions
Roberts, Alexander, and Donaldson, James, eds., The Ante-Nicene Fathers. 10 vols. (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1867–72; reprinted Hendrickson, 1994) — The standard English edition of the Fathers before Nicaea, including Ignatius, Polycarp, Justin, Irenaeus, Cyprian, and Clement. The Hendrickson reprint is the most accessible current edition.
Schaff, Philip, ed., A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. 28 vols. in two series (New York: The Christian Literature Company, 1886–90; reprinted Hendrickson, 1994) — The standard English edition of the Fathers from Nicaea onward, including Athanasius, the Cappadocians, Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine, Leo, and John of Damascus. Series I covers Augustine; Series II covers the Greek and Latin Fathers.
Migne, Jacques-Paul, ed., Patrologia Latina. 221 vols. (Paris: 1844–64) — The standard Latin collection of Western patristic texts. Accessible in major research libraries and increasingly online. The primary source for critical work on the Latin Fathers.
Migne, Jacques-Paul, ed., Patrologia Graeca. 161 vols. (Paris: 1857–66) — The standard Greek collection of Eastern patristic texts.
Individual Works
Ignatius of Antioch, The Letters. In Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1; also tr. Cyril Richardson in Early Christian Fathers (Library of Christian Classics, 1953) — Seven letters written on the road to martyrdom. The Library of Christian Classics edition by Richardson is especially recommended.
Irenaeus of Lyon, Against Heresies (Adversus Haereses). In Ante-Nicene Fathers, vols. 1–2 — The foundational argument against Gnosticism and the first systematic statement of the rule of faith.
Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation (De Incarnatione). Tr. Penelope Lawson, introduction by C. S. Lewis (St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1993) — Lewis’s introduction is a classic statement of the case for reading old books. The Lawson translation is standard.
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions. Tr. Henry Chadwick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991) — The Chadwick translation in Oxford World’s Classics is the standard modern scholarly English edition.
Augustine of Hippo, The City of God. Tr. Henry Bettenson (Penguin Classics, 1972) — The Bettenson Penguin is the most accessible single-volume English translation.
John of Damascus, The Fount of Knowledge. In NPNF Series II, vol. 9; also tr. Frederic Chase (Catholic University of America Press, 1958) — The Fount of Knowledge, comprising the Philosophical Chapters, the Heresies, and the Orthodox Faith.
Cyril of Alexandria, On the Unity of Christ. Tr. John McGuckin (St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1995) — The McGuckin translation is the standard modern English edition of Cyril’s Christological writings.
V. The Medieval Tradition
Primary texts for Series III, including the Scholastic, mystical, and devotional traditions.
Anselm of Canterbury, The Major Works. Ed. Brian Davies and G. R. Evans (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) — Contains the Proslogion, Cur Deus Homo, the prayers and meditations. The standard accessible edition.
Bernard of Clairvaux, On the Song of Songs. Tr. Kilian Walsh and Irene Edmonds, 4 vols. (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1971–80) — The standard English translation of Bernard’s masterwork.
Bernard of Clairvaux, Selected Works. Tr. G. R. Evans (New York: Paulist Press, 1987) — A single-volume selection including On Loving God and On Consideration.
Francis of Assisi, The Complete Works. Tr. Regis Armstrong and Ignatius Brady (New York: Paulist Press, 1982) — The standard English edition of Francis’s writings.
Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologiae. Ed. Timothy McDermott, 1-vol. concise edition (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1989); complete 60-vol. edition Blackfriars/Eyre & Spottiswoode — The McDermott single-volume concise edition is the best introduction; the Blackfriars bilingual edition is the standard scholarly text.
Bonaventure, The Soul’s Journey into God. Tr. Ewert Cousins (New York: Paulist Press, 1978) — The standard English translation of the Itinerarium.
Rolle, Richard, The Fire of Love. Tr. Clifton Wolters (Penguin Classics, 1972) — The standard accessible English translation.
Hilton, Walter, The Scale of Perfection. Tr. John Clark and Rosemary Dorward (New York: Paulist Press, 1991) — The standard modern scholarly translation.
The Cloud of Unknowing, Ed. James Walsh (New York: Paulist Press, 1981); also Clifton Wolters tr. (Penguin Classics, 1961) — The Walsh edition in the Classics of Western Spirituality series is the standard scholarly text; the Wolters Penguin is the most accessible.
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love. Tr. Clifton Wolters (Penguin Classics, 1966); scholarly edn. Edmund Colledge and James Walsh (New York: Paulist Press, 1978) — The Wolters Penguin for accessibility; the Colledge-Walsh edition for scholarship.
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ. Tr. Leo Sherley-Price (Penguin Classics, 1952) — The most widely used modern English translation. Innumerable other translations exist; all are reliable.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy. Tr. Dorothy L. Sayers, 3 vols. (Penguin Classics, 1949–62) — The Sayers translation remains the most theologically informed and literarily satisfying English version of the supreme work of medieval Christian imagination.
Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship. Tr. Mary Eugenia Laker (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1974) — The standard English translation.
VI. The Anglican Tradition
Primary texts for Series IV, and the standard works of Anglican theology and devotion.
Foundational Documents
Hooker, Richard, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. Ed. W. Speed Hill, Folger Library Edition, 6 vols. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977–93) — The standard critical edition. The Everyman’s Library edition (Dent) provides the most accessible single-volume text of Books I–IV.
Andrewes, Lancelot, Preces Privatae. Tr. F. E. Brightman (London: Methuen, 1903; reprinted) — The standard English translation of Andrewes’s private prayers. Brightman’s introductory notes are themselves a minor classic.
Andrewes, Lancelot, Sermons. Ed. G. M. Story (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967) — A selection of the Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide sermons in the standard scholarly edition.
Herbert, George, The Complete English Works. Ed. Ann Pasternak Slater (Everyman’s Library, 1995) — The standard single-volume edition of Herbert’s poetry and prose, including The Temple and A Priest to the Temple.
Donne, John, The Complete English Poems. Ed. A. J. Smith (Penguin, 1971) — The standard Penguin edition of the poems.
Donne, John, Selected Prose. Ed. Evelyn Simpson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967) — Selected sermons and Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.
Taylor, Jeremy, Holy Living and Holy Dying. Ed. P. G. Stanwood, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989) — The standard critical edition. The Woodhead reprint (1835, frequently reprinted) is the most accessible single-volume text.
Ken, Thomas, Morning and Evening Hymns, with the Doxology. In various hymnal editions; the original text in Poems and Prose (London, 1838)
Keble, John, The Christian Year. First published 1827; Everyman’s Library edition (Dent, 1914) — The Everyman edition with notes is the standard accessible text.
Pusey, Edward Bouverie, A Letter to the Bishop of Oxford (Tract 18). In Tracts for the Times, vol. I (London: Rivington, 1834) — Pusey’s foundational contribution to the Oxford Movement.
Newman, John Henry, Apologia Pro Vita Sua. Ed. Martin Svaglic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967) — The standard critical edition of Newman’s spiritual autobiography, indispensable for understanding the Oxford Movement.
Tracts for the Times, 6 vols. (London: Rivington, 1833–41). Facsimile reprint New York: AMS Press, 1969 — The foundational documents of the Oxford Movement.
Anglican Theology
Ramsey, Michael, The Gospel and the Catholic Church. 2nd edn (London: Longmans, 1956) — The twentieth century’s most important statement of Anglican ecclesiology. Ramsey as Archbishop of Canterbury embodied what he wrote here.
Kirk, Kenneth, The Vision of God. 2nd edn (London: Longmans, 1932) — The Bampton Lectures on the Christian life and the beatific vision, one of the great works of Anglican moral theology.
Mascall, E. L., Christ, the Christian and the Church. (London: Longmans, 1946) — The finest Anglican systematic theology of the twentieth century, rooted in Thomist metaphysics and Anglican devotion.
Farrer, Austin, The Glass of Vision. (Westminster: Dacre Press, 1948) — Bampton Lectures on biblical inspiration and theological method; the most original Anglican theological work of the mid-twentieth century.
Dix, Gregory, The Shape of the Liturgy. (Westminster: Dacre Press, 1945) — The most important work of liturgical theology in the twentieth century, foundational for understanding the BCP and the Catholic tradition of the Eucharist.
VII. Mystical & Devotional Theology
Works that trace the interior tradition across both Catholic and Anglican streams.
Underhill, Evelyn, Mysticism. 12th edn (London: Methuen, 1930; reprinted Oneworld Publications) — The foundational modern study. Part I is the theoretical analysis; Part II traces the mystic way through the principal figures of the tradition.
Underhill, Evelyn, Worship. (London: Nisbet, 1936; reprinted Harper & Row) — The most comprehensive Anglican account of Christian worship, drawing on Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions.
Underhill, Evelyn, The Letters of Evelyn Underhill. Ed. Charles Williams (London: Longmans, 1943) — Her letters as spiritual director are among the most practically valuable documents of Anglican spiritual direction.
von Hügel, Friedrich, The Mystical Element of Religion. 2 vols. (London: Dent, 1908; reprinted Clarke) — The major work of the Catholic lay theologian who directed Underhill. The fullest study of Catherine of Genoa and one of the most significant works of modern mystical theology.
Butler, Cuthbert, Western Mysticism. 3rd edn (London: Constable, 1967) — The study of mystical prayer in Augustine, Gregory, and Bernard that provided the theological grounding for the English mystical tradition.
Pourrat, P., Christian Spirituality. 4 vols. (Westminster MD: Newman Press, 1953–55) — The standard Catholic historical survey of Christian spirituality from the New Testament to modern times.
Knowles, David, The English Mystical Tradition. (London: Burns & Oates, 1961) — The standard study of the fourteenth-century English mystics: Rolle, Hilton, Julian, and the Cloud-author.
VIII. The Northumbrian & Celtic Tradition
Primary and secondary works for Series I.
Bede, the Venerable, Life of St Cuthbert; Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow. In The Age of Bede, tr. J. F. Webb (Penguin Classics, 1965; rev. edn with D. H. Farmer, 1983) — The Age of Bede volume contains Bede’s Life of Cuthbert, the anonymous Life of Cuthbert, Bede’s Lives of the Abbots, the Voyage of St Brendan, and Eddius Stephanus’s Life of Wilfrid.
Adomnán of Iona, Life of St Columba. Tr. Richard Sharpe (Penguin Classics, 1995) — The standard modern English translation of the primary source for Columba.
Colgrave, Bertram, tr., Two Lives of Saint Cuthbert. (Cambridge University Press, 1940; reprinted) — The anonymous monk’s Life and Bede’s prose Life of Cuthbert, in parallel Latin and English.
Fell, Christine, et al., Women in Anglo-Saxon England. (London: British Museum Publications, 1984) — The standard scholarly account of women including Hild, in the Anglo-Saxon context.
Stenton, F. M., Anglo-Saxon England. 3rd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971) — The standard history of the Anglo-Saxon period, covering the context of the Northumbrian series comprehensively.
IX. The Apostolic Tradition
Standard works on the New Testament period and apostolic history.
Josephus, Flavius, Jewish Antiquities; The Jewish War. Tr. H. St J. Thackeray et al., Loeb Classical Library, 10 vols. (Harvard University Press) — The primary non-Christian source for the New Testament period, including the death of James the Less and the Herodian dynasty.
Lightfoot, J. B., The Apostolic Fathers. 2 parts in 5 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1889–90; reprinted Baker) — The standard critical edition of Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, the Didache, and related texts. Lightfoot’s introductions and notes remain unsurpassed.
Lake, Kirsopp, tr., The Apostolic Fathers. 2 vols. (Loeb Classical Library; Harvard University Press) — The standard Loeb parallel text edition.
Bruce, F. F., The Book of Acts. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1954; revised 1988) — The standard English evangelical commentary on Acts, reliable and accessible.
Harnack, Adolf von, The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries. Tr. J. Moffatt, 2 vols. (London: Williams & Norgate, 1908; reprinted Harper) — The standard historical study of the geographical spread of early Christianity. Harnack’s conclusions have been modified but his scholarship remains foundational.
X. Biography of Principal Figures
Standard lives of the saints and figures treated in the archive.
Asser, Life of King Alfred. Tr. Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge in Alfred the Great (Penguin Classics, 1983) — The primary source for Alfred, with excellent translations of Alfred’s own prefaces.
Eadmer, Life of St Anselm. Ed. and tr. R. W. Southern (Oxford Medieval Texts; Clarendon Press, 1972) — The primary source for Anselm, by his disciple. Southern’s edition is the standard text.
Aelred of Rievaulx, Life of St Edward, King and Confessor. Tr. Jerome Bertram (Guildford: St Edward’s Press, 1990) — The primary hagiographical source for Edward the Confessor.
Thomas of Celano, First Life of St Francis. In St Francis of Assisi: Writings and Early Biographies, ed. Marion Habig (Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1972) — The standard collection of Franciscan sources in English translation.
Jordan of Saxony, On the Origin of the Order of Preachers. Tr. Simon Tugwell (Dublin: Dominican Publications, 1982) — The primary source for the early Dominican tradition, including Dominic.
Roper, William, The Life of Sir Thomas More. Ed. R. S. Sylvester (Early English Text Society; Oxford University Press, 1959) — The primary source for More, by his son-in-law.
Wordsworth, John, Bishop of Salisbury, Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding. (London: SPCK, 1907) — The standard early biography of Ferrar.
Hester, Marcus, Florence Nightingale. See: Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale (London: Constable, 1950) — The standard full biography.
Furneaux, Robin, William Wilberforce. (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974) — The standard biography.
Williams, Charles, The Figure of Beatrice. (London: Faber, 1943) — Williams on Dante, by the Inkling and colleague of C. S. Lewis. An extraordinary work of lay Anglican theology.
XI. Liturgical & Calendrical Reference
Works on the structure, history, and theology of the Christian Calendar and liturgy.
Dix, Gregory, The Shape of the Liturgy. (Westminster: Dacre Press, 1945) — See above. Also listed under Anglican Theology; its importance warrants a second citation.
Procter, Francis, and Frere, Walter Howard, A New History of the Book of Common Prayer. Rev. edn (London: Macmillan, 1902) — The standard historical and liturgical commentary on the BCP.
Brightman, F. E., The English Rite. 2 vols. (London: Rivington, 1915) — The definitive parallel-text comparison of the Sarum Rite with the successive Prayer Books. Indispensable for understanding the liturgical continuity of the Anglican tradition.
Adam, Adolf, The Liturgical Year. Tr. Matthew O’Connell (New York: Pueblo, 1981) — The standard scholarly account of the development of the Christian year, from Advent through Pentecost, drawing on both Catholic and Protestant scholarship.
Gladstone, W. E., The Psalter with a Concordance and Other Auxiliary Matter. (London: John Murray, 1895) — The last great work of Gladstone’s public life, published three years before his death: a full concordance to the Coverdale Psalter with thematic titles for all 150 Psalms and other auxiliary matter. Revised for the 1928 Psalter by Pepper (q.v.). The thematic titles and concordance form the basis of the archive’s Psalter Companion and Concordance to the Psalter.
Jones, Bayard Hale, The American Lectionary. (New York: Morehouse-Gorham, 1944) — The authoritative commentary on the 1943 revision of the Daily Office Lectionary of the 1928 BCP, written by one of its principal architects. Jones explains the principles of selection governing the new lectionary, including the decision to abbreviate certain passages and the shift toward thematic harmony between the two lessons at each office. Essential background for understanding why the APCK’s continued use of the pre-1945 lectionary represents a deliberate and theologically grounded choice. Available for borrowing through the Internet Archive (archive.org); x + 163 pages.
Pepper, George Wharton, An Analytical Index to the Book of Common Prayer and a Brief Account of its Evolution. Together with a Revision of Gladstone’s Concordance to the Psalter. (Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1948) — The final work of George Wharton Pepper (1867–1961), United States Senator for Pennsylvania and lifelong churchman, published in his eighty-first year. Contains a complete alphabetical index to every prayer, rubric, service, and liturgical text in the 1928 BCP; thematic titles for all 150 Psalms after Gladstone (used with the concurrence of Gladstone’s family); and a table of principal changes in the 1928 Psalter revision. A rare volume, not currently available in digital form. Three documents in the archive are drawn directly from it: the Psalter Companion with Thematic Titles, the Table of Principal Changes in the Psalter, and the Subject Index to the Prayers of the 1928 BCP.
Scott, Melville, The Harmony of the Collects, Epistles and Gospels. (London: SPCK, 1903) — Scott, Vicar of Castlechurch in Stafford, produced the most useful of all Anglican harmonies of the Sunday propers, showing for each Sunday of the 1662 BCP year the devotional and doctrinal coherence of the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel as a unity. Isaac Walton records that George Herbert followed precisely this method in preparing his sermons. The archive’s Harmony of the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels is based on Scott’s method, applied to the propers of the 1928 BCP.
Parry, Kenneth, ed., Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999) — Indispensable for understanding the Eastern liturgical tradition as it appears in Andrewes’s Preces Privatae and in the Patristic meditations.
XII. General Reference Works
Standard works of reference for the archive as a whole.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, Ed. F. L. Cross; 3rd edn ed. E. A. Livingstone (Oxford University Press, 1997) — The standard single-volume reference work for all questions of Christian history, theology, and biography. The Cross-Livingstone third edition is the standard text.
Pelikan, Jaroslav, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine. 5 vols. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971–89) — The standard history of Christian doctrine from the Apostolic Fathers to the twentieth century. The five volumes cover the Patristic, medieval, Reformation, Catholic, and modern periods respectively. Nothing else covers the full span of the archive’s theological tradition with equal comprehensiveness.
Southern, R. W., The Making of the Middle Ages. (London: Hutchinson, 1953; reprinted Yale) — The most accessible introduction to the spiritual and intellectual world of the medieval period covered in Series III.
Southern, R. W., Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. (Penguin History of the Church, vol. 2; Penguin, 1970) — The standard account of the institutional Church in the period of the medieval series.
Chadwick, Henry, The Early Church. (Penguin History of the Church, vol. 1; Penguin, 1967) — The standard accessible account of the Church in the Patristic period.
Chadwick, Owen, The Reformation. (Penguin History of the Church, vol. 3; Penguin, 1964) — The standard account of the Reformation period, including the English Reformation.
Chadwick, Owen, The Victorian Church. 2 vols. (London: A & C Black, 1966–70) — The standard history of the Victorian Church, indispensable for Series IV (the Oxford Movement) and Series VI (Wilberforce, Nightingale, Butler).
Stevenson, J., ed., A New Eusebius. Rev. edn by W. H. C. Frend (London: SPCK, 1987) — The standard sourcebook of documents from the early Church, complementing Eusebius’s own Ecclesiastical History.
Stevenson, J., ed., Creeds, Councils and Controversies. Rev. edn by W. H. C. Frend (London: SPCK, 1989) — The standard sourcebook for the Conciliar period from Nicaea through Chalcedon.
A Note on Availability
Most of the works listed here are available in permanent editions from university libraries and theological college libraries, and many are in print or available in reliable reprint editions. The Ante-Nicene Fathers and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series are freely available in the public domain and have been digitised in several reliable scholarly formats. The Loeb Classical Library editions (Harvard University Press) provide reliable bilingual texts of most Greek and Latin authors cited. The Paulist Press Classics of Western Spirituality series provides high-quality critical translations of mystical texts across the Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and Jewish traditions and is the single most useful series for the mystical theology section of this bibliography.
The works of Butler (Lives of the Saints), Farmer (Oxford Dictionary of Saints), the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, and Pelikan (The Christian Tradition) constitute the essential four-volume reference shelf for the archive as a whole and should be consulted first for any saint or doctrine not immediately addressed by the primary sources.