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Holy Bible
Comprising the Old and New Testaments, stands as the sacred scripture for Christians worldwide.
1st Century
The apostles' own pupils: the Didache, Clement of Rome, and the letter of Barnabas.
2nd Century
The age of the martyrs and the first apologists, with Ignatius, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian.
3rd Century
Persecution and the first great scholarship, in Origen, Cyprian, Hippolytus, Dionysius of Alexandria, and Methodius.
4th Century
The century of Nicaea and the great Fathers: Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, Ambrose, Chrysostom, Jerome, and Augustine.
5th Century
Christ confessed at Ephesus and Chalcedon, with John Cassian, Leo the Great, Theodoret, and Vincent of Lerins.
6th Century
The turn from the ancient world to the medieval, in Gregory the Great and Boethius.
7th Century
Greek theology gathered and ordered, above all by John of Damascus.
8th Century
The last of the seven ecumenical councils, and the church's settled word on the holy images.
9th Century
The decretals gathered under the name of Isidore, which shaped medieval canon law for centuries.
13th Century
The great age of the schools and the mystics: Aquinas, Bernard, Eckhart, Dante, Julian of Norwich, and Thomas a Kempis.
15th Century
The eve of the Reformation, with Christian humanism finding its voice in Erasmus.
16th Century
The Reformation century: Luther, Calvin, Knox, Menno Simons, Cranmer, and Teresa of Avila.
17th Century
A century of Puritans, poets, and Quakers, with Owen, Baxter, Bunyan, Pascal, Donne, and George Fox.
18th Century
The awakenings and their aftermath, in Wesley, Whitefield, Edwards, Newton, and William Law.
19th Century
Victorian pulpits and searching questions, with Spurgeon, Ryle, Andrew Murray, Newman, and Kierkegaard.
20th Century
Modern voices on belief and doubt, including Chesterton, Evelyn Underhill, and Dorothy L. Sayers.