Classic Christian Books, Volume 7

by Philip Schaff

This is your ultimate collection of Christian books. Over 70 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):

Life and Death of Mr Badman (John Bunyan)
Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa (St. Catherine of Genoa)
Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (Alfred Edersheim)
Life for a Life (Henry Drummond)
Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself. (Henry Suso)
Life of David (Alexander MacLaren)
Life of Dr Owen (Andrew Thomson)
Life of God in the Soul of Man (Henry Scougal)
Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. (Augustus Neander)
Life of John Wesley Redfield (J. G. Terrill)
Life of Our Most Holy Father St. Benedict (Gregory the Great)
Life of St. Declan of Ardmore (St. Declan of Ardmore)
Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of The Order of Our Lady of Carmel (St. Teresa of Avila)
Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Anne Emmerich)
Life of the late Rev. Mr. John Flavel (John Flavel)
Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day (Evelyn Underhill)
Life of William Carey, Shoemaker and Missionary (George Smith)
Light and Peace (Carlo Giuseppe Quadrupani)
Light in the Dark Places: or, Memorial of Christian Life in the Middle Ages. (Augustus Neander)
Light Princess (George MacDonald)
Light, Life, and Love (W. R. Inge)
Lilith (George MacDonald)
Limits of Religious Thought Examined in Eight Lectures Delivered before the University of Oxford, in the Year MDCCCLVIII., on the Bampton Foundat (Henry Longueville Mansel)
Little Book of Eternal Wisdom (Henry Suso)
Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi ( Brother Ugolino)
Little Treasure of Prayers (Anonymous)
Lively Oracles Given to Us: or the Christians Birth-right and Duty in the Custody and Use of the Holy Scripture. (Richard Allestree)
Lord Teach Us To Pray (Alexander Whyte)
Lord's Prayer (Thomas Watson)
Lord's Table (Andrew Murray)
Love Enthroned (Daniel Steele)
Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man (Henry Drummond)
Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation (John Tulloch)
Luther's Little Instruction Book: The Small Catechism of Martin Luther (Martin Luther)
Lyra Germanica: Second Series: The Christian Life (Catherine Winkworth)
Lyra Germanica: The Christian Year (Catherine Winkworth)
Magic: A Fantastic Comedy (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Man Who Knew Too Much (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Man Who Was Thursday (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Manalive (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Marrow of Modern Divinity (Edward Fisher)
Martyrs Mirror (Thieleman J. van Braght)
Master and Man (Leo Tolstoy)
Master's Indwelling (Andrew Murray)
Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde (Frances Bevan)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible (Matthew Henry)
Maxims of the Saints (François Fénelon)
Meditating on Scripture with the Saints (Mark Pasko)
Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ (John Owen)
NPNF-211. Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian (Philip Schaff)
NPNF-212. Leo the Great, Gregory the Great (Philip Schaff)
NPNF-213. Gregory the Great (II), Ephraim Syrus, Aphrahat (Philip Schaff)
NPNF1-01. The Confessions and Letters of St.

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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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