Classic Christian Books, Volume 1

by Philip Schaff

This is your ultimate collection of Christian books. A total of 52 Classic Christian books have been collected in this single volume. The full range of material of interest to all denominations is covered, including many of the works of the early church fathers. The books are organized alphabetically giving you all the reading material you could possibly want outside of the Bible
itself.

The following titles are included in this volume (among others):

1677/89 London Baptist Confession of Faith (Anonymous)
Abandonment to Divine Providence (Jean-Pierre de Caussade)
Absolute Surrender (Andrew Murray)
Abstract of Systematic Theology (James P. Boyce)
Acts of the Apostles (Ellen G. White)
Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 (George MacDonald)
Adela Cathcart, Volume 2 (George MacDonald)
Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 (George MacDonald)
Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage (St. John of Ruysbroeck)
Against War (Desiderius Erasmus)
All of Grace (C. H. Spurgeon)
All Things Considered (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast. (Matthew Mead)
American Religious Movement: A Brief History of the Disciples of Christ (Winfred E. Garrison)
American Standard Version of the Holy Bible (1901) (Anonymous (Bible))
AN APPEAL To all that Doubt (William Law)
Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course of Nature to Which Are Added, Two Brief Dissertations (Joseph Butler)
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus (Philip Schaff)
ANF02. Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire) (Philip Schaff)
ANF03. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian (Philip Schaff)
ANF04. Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Part Fourth; Minucius Felix; Commodian; Origen, Parts First and Second (Philip Schaff)
ANF05. Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix (Philip Schaff)
ANF06. Fathers of the Third Century: Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius, and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arn (Philip Schaff)
ANF07. Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily (Philip Schaff)
ANF08. The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementia, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First (Philip Schaff)
ANF09. The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, the Vision of Paul, The Apocalypse of the Virgin and Sedrach, The Te (Philip Schaff)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (George MacDonald)
Antichrist (A. W. Pink)
Apology of the Augsburg Confession (Philipp Melanchthon)
Apostles' Creed (Adolf Harnack)
Apostolic Fathers (John Lightfoot)
Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11 (Thomas Watson)
Ascent of Mount Carmel (St. John of the Cross)
Ascent of the Son--The Descent of the Spirit: Kuyper Meditations (Abraham Kuyper)
Assorted Sermons By Martin Luther (Martin Luther)
At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald)
At The Master's Feet (Sadhu Sundar Singh)
Autobiography of George Fox (George Fox)
Autobiography of Madame Guyon (Madam Guyon)
Autobiography of St. Ignatius (St. Ignatius of Loyola)
Backslider in Heart (Charles G. Finney )
Ball and the Cross (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Ballad of the White Horse (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

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Published August 10th 2016

Philip Schaff

Philip Schaff was educated at the gymnasium of Stuttgart, and at the universities of Tübingen, Halle and Berlin, where he was successively influenced by Baur and Schmid, by Tholuck and Julius Müller, by David Strauss and, above all, Neander. At Berlin, in 1841, he took the degree of B.D., and passed examinations for a professorship. He then traveled through Italy and Sicily as tutor to Baron Krischer. In 1842 he was Privatdozent in the University of Berlin, where he lectured on exegesis and church history. In 1843 he was called to become professor of church history and Biblical literature in the German Reformed Theological Seminary of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, then the only seminary of that church in America.
On his journey he stayed in England and met Edward Pusey and other Tractarians. His inaugural address on The Principle of Protestantism, delivered in German at Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1844, and published in German with an English version by John Williamson Nevin was a pioneer work in English in the field of symbolics (that is, the authoritative ecclesiastical formulations of religious doctrines in creeds or confessions). This address and the "Mercersburg Theology" which he taught seemed too pro-Catholic to some, and he was charged with heresy. But, at the synod at York in 1845, he was unanimously acquitted.
Schaff's broad views strongly influenced the German Reformed Church, through his teaching at Mercersburg, through his championship of English in German Reformed churches and schools in America, through his hymnal (1859), through his labours as chairman of the committee which prepared a new liturgy, and by his edition (1863) of the Heidelberg Catechism. His History of the Apostolic Church (in German, 1851; in English, 1853) and his History of the Christian Church (7 vols., 1858-1890), opened a new period in American study of ecclesiastical history.
In 1854, he visited Europe, representing the American German churches at the ecclesiastical diet at Frankfort and at the Swiss pastoral conference at Basel. He lectured in Germany on America, and received the degree of D.D. from Berlin.
In consequence of the ravages of the American Civil War the theological seminary at Mercersburg was closed for a while and so in 1863 Dr. Schaff became secretary of the Sabbath Committee (which fought the “continental Sunday”) in New York City, and held the position till 1870. In 1865 he founded the first German Sunday School in Stuttgart. In 1862-1867 he lectured on church history at Andover.

Schaff was a member of the Leipzig Historical Society, the Netherland Historical Society, and other historical and literary societies in Europe and America. He was one of the founders, and honorary secretary, of the American branch of the Evangelical Alliance, and was sent to Europe in 1869, 1872, and 1873 to arrange for the general conference of the Alliance, which, after two postponements on account of the Franco-Prussian War, was held in New York in October 1873. Schaff was also, in 1871, one of the Alliance delegates to the emperor of Russia to plead for the religious liberty of his subjects in the Baltic provinces.

He became a professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York City in 1870 holding first the chair of theological encyclopedia and Christian symbolism till 1873, of Hebrew and the cognate languages till 1874, of sacred literature till 1887, and finally of church history, till his death. He also served as president of the committee that translated the American Standard Version of the Bible, though he died before it was published in 1901.
His History of the Christian Church resembled Neander's work, though less biographical, and was pictorial rather than philosophical. He also wrote biographies, catechisms and hymnals for children, manuals of religious verse, lectures and essays on Dante, etc. He translated Johann Jakob Herzog's Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche into English.
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