Reformed Church History Bibliography

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General History

Dorner, Isaak. History of Protestant Theology, Particularly in Germany. Vol. 2. See also the original German.

Gass, Wilhelm. Geschichte der christlichen Ethik.

Gass, Wilhelm. Geschichte des Protestantischen Dogmatik. Vol. 2. Vol. 3. Vol. 4.

Goebel, Max. Die Religiöse Eigenthümlichkeit der Lutherischen und Reformirte Kirche.

Good, James I. Famous Places of the Reformed Church: A Religious Guidebook of Europe.

________. Famous Reformers of the Reformed and Presbyterian Churches.

________. The Reformed Reformation.

Graham, J.A. The Missionary Expansion of the Reformed Churches.

Hagenbach, K.R. A History of the Church in the 18^th and 19^th Centuries. Vol. 2.

________. A Text-Book of the History of Doctrines. Vol. 2.

Hallam, Henry. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15^th, 16^th, and 17^th Centuries. Vol. 2. Vol. 3.

Kurtz, Johann Heinrich. Church History. Vol. 2. Vol. 3.

Massebieau, L. Les colloques scolaires du seizième siècle et leurs auteurs (1480-1570).

McGiffert, A.C. Protestant Thought Before Kant.

Plumley, Gardiner Spring. The Presbyterian Church Throughout the World: From the Earliest to the Present Times.

Rauwenhoff, L.W.E. Geschiedenis van Het Protestantisme. Vol. 2. Vol. 3.

Ritschl, Albrecht. A Critical History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation.

________. Geschichte des Pietismus. Vol. 2. Vol. 3.

Schwane, Joseph. Histoire des Dogmes. Multi-volume. Only the first is currently available.

Schweizer, Alexander. Die Glaubenslehre der Evangelisch-Reformirten Kirche. Vol. 2.

________. Die Protestantischen Centraldogmen. Vol. 2.

Venema, Herman. Institutiones Historiae Ecclesiae. Vol. 2. Vol. 3. Vol. 4. Vol. 5. Vol. 6. Vol. 7. Latin.

French/Genevan

Anderson, William, tr. Jean Migault; or, the Trial of a French Protestant Family.

Annals of the Rise, Persecution, and Progress of the Famous Reformed Churches of France.

Anquez, Léonce. Histoire des Assemblées Politiques des Réformés de France.

Anthologie Protestante Français. A collection of writings from the first couple centuries of French Proestantism.

Armand, Émile. Essai sur la vie de Du Moulin.

Beaujour, Sophronyme. Essai sur l’ Histoire de l’Église Réformée de Caen.

Benoît, Élie. Histoire de l’Édit de Nantes. Vol. 2. Vol. 3. Vol. 4.

Berthault, E.A. J. Saurin et La Prédication Protestante.

Blackburn, William. Admiral Coligny and the Rise of the Huguenots.

Browning, William. A History of the Huguenots.

Borrel, A. Histoire de l’Église Reformée de Nîmes.

Bourchenin, P. Daniel. Étude sur les Académies Protestantes en France au XVIe et XVIIe siècles.

Borrel, A. Histoire de l’Église Réformée de Nîmes.

Cart, J. Pierre Viret, le Réformateur Vaudois: Biographie Populaire.

Claparède, Théodore. Histoire des Églises Réformées du Pays du Gex.

Claude, Jean. Cruel Persecutions of the Protestants in the Kingdom of France. This is a book by the famous French Reformed theologian, Jean Claude, explaining to Europe what happened to the Protestants at the end of the 17^th century. It also includes a biographical essay on Claude. See the original French version.

Corbière, Philippe. Histoire de l’Église Réformée de Montpellier.

Crottet, A. Histoire des Églises Réformées de Pons, Gemozac, et Mortagne.

Cuno, F.W. Daniel Tossanus der Ältere. German.

Daillé, Jean, ed. Memoires de Phillippe Du Plessis Mornay. Mornay was one of the political leaders of the Huguenots. He also founded the Academy of Saumur.

De Budé, Eugène. Vie de Bénédict Pictet.

________. Vie de François Turrettini.

________. Vie de Jean-Alphonse Turrettini.

________. Vie de Jean Diodati.

De Félice, Guillaume. Histoire des Synodes Nationaux des Eglises Reformée de France.

________. History of the Protestants of France. This is a very good overview of Huguenot history in English! See also the original French.

________. Les Protestants D’Autrefois: Vies Intérieures des Églises.

De Félice, Paul. Lambert Daneau. French.

De la Garde, Henry. Le Duc de Rohan et les Protestants sous Louis XIII. Duke Henry of Rohan was the heroic military leader of the Protestants in their last battles against the kings of France. See his memoirs in English below.

Delmas, L. The Huguenots of La Rochelle. Rochelle was a sort of republic to its own in France and was committed to the Protestant faith. It valiantly defended itself against the onslaught of the imperial armies as one of the Huguenot’s last bastions of political power. See also the French version, L’Église Réformée de Rochelle.

Deschamps, Arsène. La Genèse du Sceptisme Érudite Chez Bayle.

Drion, Charles. Histoire Chronologique de l’Église Protestante de France.

DuBois, Lucien. Bayle et la Tolérance.

Farel, William. Various Biographies Available. English and French.

Frossard, Charles L. Les Origines de la Faculté de Théologie de Montaubon.

Gabarel, J. Histoire de l’Église de Genève depuis le Commencement de la Réformation jusqu’à nos jours. Vol. 2. Vol. 3.

Haag, Eugène et Emil. La France Protestante, first edition, 1846-1858. Vol. 2. Vol. 3. Vol. 4. Vol. 5. Vol. 6. Vol. 7. Vol. 8. Vol. 9. Vol. 10. The massive biographical dictionary of French Protestantism. Vol. 1 – Abbadie-Banchi. Vol. 2 – Basnage-Brodeau. Vol. 3 – Brossier-Colivaux. Vol. 4 – Colla-Essen. Vol. 5 – Etienne-Huault. Vol. 6 – Humer-Lesage. Vol. 7 – L’Escale-Mutonis. Vol. 8 – Nagel-Rosenstiel. Vol. 9 – Rossel-Zorn. This is an extremely helpful book. It contains extensive bibliographic and biographical information.

Haag, Eugène, La France Protestante, second edition. Vol. 2. Vol. 3. Vol. 5. Vol. 6.

Heppe, Heinrich. Theodor Beza. German. Biography.

Henri, Duc de Rohan. Memoires of the Duke of Rohan. See also the French. Memoires et Lettres. Vol. 2. Vol. 3.

Jaquinet, Paul. Des prédicateurs du XVIIe siècle avant Bossuet.

Keizer, Gerrit. François Turrettini: Sa Vie et Ses Oeuvres.

La Febvre, Jacques. Examen Critique des Ouvrages de Bayle.

Lafon, Jean Bernard. Histoire d’une Ville Protestante. The story of Montaubon.

Laval, Stephen Abel. A Compendiuos History of the Reformation in France. A history from the beginning of the Reformation to the repeal of the Edict of Nantes.

Lenient, Charles. Études sur Bayle.

Lièvre, Auguste. Histoire des Protestants et des Églises Réformées du Poitou. Vol. 2. Vol. 3.

Maury, Léon. Le Réveil Religieux dans l’Église Réformée à Genève et en France. Vol. 2. Vol. 3.

Monastier, Antoine. Histoire de l’Église Vaudoise. Vol. 2.

Musset, René. L’Église de France au XVIIe Siècle.

Pannier, Jacques. L’Église Réformée de Paris sous Henri IV.

Pattison, Mark. Isaac Casaubon 1559-1614. English.

Peyran, Charles. Histoire de l’Ancienne Académie Réformée de Sedan. This is where Du Moulin and Jurieu taught, among others.

Ramus, Petrus. Various books on him. Various languages including English by Frank Graves.

Read, Charles. Daniel Chamier (1564-1621): Journal de Son Voyage a la Cour de Henri IV et sa Biographie.

Sandras, Gatien. La Vie du Vicomte du Turenne. The story of the famous General de Turenne, who was a victorious military leader in the French army and a Protestant who became Catholic at the end of his life. See an English biography here. See also his Memoirs in French here.

Van Oordt, C. Pierre Jurieu, Historien Apologiste de la Réformation. French.

Vaurigaud, B. Histoire de l’Église Réformée de Nantes.

Vinet, Alexandre. Histoire de la Prédication parmi les Réformées de France au Dix-septième siècle.

German/German Swiss

Cust, Edward. Lives of the Warriors of the Thirty Years War.

Freedman, Joseph. “The Career and Writings of Bartholmew Keckermann” in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (Vol. 141, no. 3, 1997). Read only.

Good, James I. History of the Reformed Church of Germany 1620-1890.

_________. History of the Swiss Reformed Church since the Reformation.

_________. The Origin of the Reformed Church in Germany.

Hagenbach, K.R. Johann Oekolampad und Oswald Myconius: Leben und ausgewählte Schriften.

Heppe, Heinrich. Dogmatik des Deutschen Protestantismus im sechzehnten Jahrhundert.

________. Geschichte des Deutschen Protestantismus (1555-1581).

________. The Reformers of England and Germany in the 16^th Century. English.

________. Zur Geschichte der Evangelischen Gemeinden der Graffshaft Mark.

Hautz, Johann Friedrich. Geschichte der Universität Heidelberg. Both volumes can be found here.

Hottinger, J.J. Geschichte der Republik Zürich. Vol. 2. Vol. 3.

________. The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli. English. German.

Lasco, Johannes à. Various works on him and by him. None in English.

Leclercq, J.B. Une Église Réformée au 17e Siècle ou Histoire de l’ Église Wallonne de Hanau.

Schmidt, Charles. Peter Martyr Vermigli: Leben und Ausgewählte Schriften.

Steiner, Heinrich. Der Zürcher Professor Johannes Heinrich Hottinger in Heidelberg 1655-1661.

Sudhoff, Karl. C. Olevianus und Z. Ursinus: Leben und ausgewählte Schriften.

Dutch

Cramer, Jan Anthony. Abraham Heidanus en Zijn Cartesianisme. Heidanus was a leading Cocceian theologian at Leiden in the middle of the 17^th century.

Dibbits, H.C. Jacob Revius, Zijn Leven en Werken.

Duker, A.C. Gisbertus Voetius. Vol. 2. Vol. 3. Vol. 4. Dutch biography.

Glasius, B. Godgeleerd Nederland. Vol. 2. Vol. 3. An excellent biographical dictionary covering theologians who were born in or taught in the Netherlands.

Huussen, A.H. Onderwijs en Onderzoek: Studie en Wetenschap aan de Academie van Groningen in de 17e en 18e Eeuw.

Krull, A.F. Jacobus Koelman: Eene Kerkhistorische Studie.

Kuyper, Abraham, Disquisitio Historico-Theologico Exhibens Joannis Calvino et Joannis à Lasco de Ecclesia Sententiarum inter se Compositionem.

Los, Franz Johannes. Wilhelmus à Brakel.

Oppenraij, Théodore van. La Doctrine de la Predestination dans l’Église Réformée des Pay-Bas Depuis l’Origine Jusqu’au Synode National de Dordrecht 1618-1619.

________. Geschiedenis van de Hervorming en de Hervormde Kerk.

Reitsma, J. Franciscus Junius: Een Levensbeld uit den Eerste Eeuw der Kerkhervorming.

Sepp, Christiaan. Het Godgeleerd Onderwijs in Nederland gedurende de 16e en 17e Eeuw. Vol. 2.

Schotel, J.D.G. De Academie te Leiden in de 16e, 17e, en 18e Eeuw.

Ter Haar, H.W. Jacobus Trigland.

Visscher, Hugo. Guilielmus Amesius: Zijn Leven en Werken.

Wijminga, Pieter Jan. Festus Hommius. A biography of the early 17^th century theologian.

Ypeij, A. en Dermout, I.J. Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Hervormde Kerk. Vol. 2. Vol. 3. Vol. 4.

British

Henderson, Henry. The Religious Controversies of Scotland.

Heron, James. A Short History of Puritanism.

Hetherington, W.M. History of the Westminster Assembly.

Hunt, John. Religious Thought in England from the Reformation to the End of the Last Century. Vol. 2. Vol. 3.

Neal, Daniel. History of the Puritans. Vol. 2. This is an abridged edition.

Thomson, Andrew. The Life of John Owen.

_________. Thomson, Andrew. Samuel Rutherford.

Walker, James. The Theology and the Theologians of Scotland Chiefly in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries. This is a very helpful work in showing why common conceptions of the 17^th century theologians are wrong.

Other Reformed Histories

Ball, J.T. The Reformed Church of Ireland (1537-1889).

Blackburn, George. The Life Work of John Girardeau.

Dubbs, Joseph Henry. Historic Manual of the Reformed Church in the United States.

Good, James I. The Early Fathers of the Reformed Church in the United States.

________. History of the Reformed Church in the U.S. in the 19^th Century.

Lampe, Friedrich Adolphe. Historia Ecclesiae Reformatae in Hungaria et Transylvania. Lampe’s story on how Dracula became Reformed.

Mayer, Lewis. History of the German Reformed Church. 1851.

McCarter, John. The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa.

Melon, Alfred. Notice sur l’Église Réformée de Pologne.

Moordyk, Henry. History of the First Reformed Church of Grand Rapids.

Morse, Alice Earle. The Sabbath in Puritan New England.

Palmer, Benjamin. The Life and Letters of James Henry Thornwell.

History of Reformed Opponents

Calder, Frederick. Memoirs of Simon Episcopius. He was the leader of the Remonstrants after Arminius.

Couderc, J.B. Le vénérable Cardinal Bellarmin. Vol. 2.

Crouslé, Léon. Bossuet et le Protestantisme. Bossuet was the leading Catholic apologist in France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He is famous for his scholarship and oratory.

Fock, Otto. Der Socinianismus. German.

Fuzet, Edmond. Les Jansénistes du XVIIe Siècle.

Haentjens, A.H. Simon Episcopius. Dutch biography.

Knijff, Philip and Sibbe, Jan Visser. Bibliographia Sociniana. This is in English and a 2004 book on Google.

Krauth, Charles. The Conservative Reformation.

Lear, H.L. Sidney. Bossuet and His Contemporaries.

Mornay, Philippe du Plessis. Mysterium Iniquitatis seu Historia Papatus.

Quesnel, Pierre. Histoire Abregée de la Vie et des Ouvrages de Monsieur Arnauld. Arnauld was one of the leading Jansenists in the latter part of the 17^th century in France.

Ranke, Leopold von. The History of the Popes. Vol. 2. Vol. 3.

Richard, James. The Confessional History of the Lutheran Church.

Romanes, Ethel. The Story of Port Royal. Port Royal was the center of Jansenism in France in the 17^th century.

Sanders, Kathleen. Jacques Bénigne Bossuet: A Study.

Sartolo, Bernardo. El eximio doctor y venerable padre Francisco Suarez. Spanish. A biography.

Schmid, Heinrich. The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Tollemache, Marguerite. French Jansenists.

Visser, Pete. Socinianisme in de Nederlands.

Werner, Karl. Franz Suarez und die Scholastik der letzten Jahrhunderte. Vol. 2.

Wielema, Michiel. The March of the Libertines: Spinozists and the Dutch Reformed Church (1660-1750).