Theology - Primary Resources

Creeds and Confessions: The Apostles' Creed and the creeds from the following councils: Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon, Constantinople II, and Constantinople III. The following summaries of faith: Augsburg Confession, Formula of Concord, Tridentine Creed, Westminster Confession, Thirty-Nine Articles, London Baptist Confession of 1689, and the decisions of Vatican Council II.

Irenaeus: On the Apostolic Preaching and Against Heresies

Clement: The Stomata

Tertullian: Apology

Origen: On First Principles

Athanasius: On the Incarnation

Gregory of Nazianzus: Theological Orations and On the Holy Spirit

Basil: On the Holy Spirit

Gregory of Nyssa: Catechetical Discourse

Chrysostom: Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew

Augustine: Confessions, On the Trinity, On Christian Teaching, and The City of God

Cyril: On the Unity of Christ

Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy

Benedict: Rule

Gregory the Great: Pastoral Rule

John of Damascus: An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith

Anselm: Monologion, Proslogion, On the Fall of the Devil, and Why God became Man

Abelard: Glosses on Porphyry, Ethics (or Know Thyself), the Preface to Sic et Non, and the Story of My Misfortunes

Lombard: Four Books of Sentences

Bonaventure: The Itinerary of the Mind into God and The Reduction of the Arts to Theology

Aquinas: Summa Theologiae and De Ente et Essentia

Duns Scotus: Ordinatio I, dist. 2, qu. 1; I, dist. 3, qu. 1; II, dist. 3, part 1, qu. 1–6, and "The Immaculate Conception of Mary"

Ockham: "Proofs for the Existence of God" and "On the Two Powers of God"

Palamas: The Triads

Kempis: The Imitation of Christ

Luther: "95 Theses," Lectures on Romans, Commentary on Galatians, The Freedom of a Christian, On the Bondage of the Will, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, and Table Talk

Zwingli: "The Sixty-Seven Articles" and "This is my Body"

Cranmer: "The Thirty-Nine Articles" and the Book of Common Prayer

Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion

Beza: "Causes of Predestination"

Grotius: On the Truth of the Christian Religion

Owen: Death of Death in the Death of Christ and the Mortification of Sin

Pascal: Pensees

Wesley: A Plain Account of Christian Perfection

Edwards: Religious Affections, The Freedom of the Will, and The End for Which God Created the World

Schleiermacher: The Christian Faith

Newman: "On the Grounds of Faith" and "On the Role of Tradition"

Barth: Church Dogmatics