Articles
Online Resources for Additional Study
The titles listed below link to articles from online journals and blogs from a variety of authors. They are included here as supplemental material for those who wish to dig deeper in their study of church history.
The Apostolic Period
An Introduction to Acts - Part 1 (MacArthur)
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An Introduction to Acts - Part 2 (MacArthur)
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Sermons on the Book of Acts (MacArthur)
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Are there Apostles in the Church Today? (Busenitz)
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The First Seminary (Busenitz)
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Upon This Rock (Busenitz)
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Why These 66 Books? [Article] (Busenitz)
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Why These 66 Books? [Audio] (Busenitz)
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Why These 66 Books? [Slides] (Busenitz)
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Patristic Period
The Church Fathers and Sola Scriptura (Busenitz)
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The Church Fathers and the Rock of Matthew 16 (Webster)
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The Gospel according to the Church Fathers (Busenitz)
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Getting Back to the Ancient Church (Busenitz)
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Did the Early Church Teach Transubstantiation? (Busenitz)
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The Arian Controversy (Needham)
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Did Constantine Invent the Trinity? (Busenitz)
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The Early Church and the Deity of Christ (Busenitz)
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Doctrine in Focus: The Trinity (Busenitz)
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Modalism and Oneness Theology (Busenitz)
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My Favorite Santa Claus Story (Busenitz)
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Christmas and Controversy (Busenitz)
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The Death of History's Worst Heretic (Busenitz)
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The Legacy of Athanasius (Piper)
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Chrysostom and Justification by Faith (Busenitz)
The Legacy of Augustine (Piper)
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Augustine: Bishop of Hippo (Murray)
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Augustine and Christian Longing (Riccardi)
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The Council of Chalcedon (Needham)
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The Medieval Period
When Did Praying to Saints Begin? (Busenitz)
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Is the Papacy Legitimate? (Webster)
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Forgeries and the Papcy (Webster)
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The Assumption of Mary (Webster)
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Penance and Confession (Webster)
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Gottschalk (Lawson)
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The Great Schism of 1054 (Nichols)
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Instructions to the Dying (Busenitz)
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How Many People Died in the Inquisition? (Busenitz)
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The Spanish Inquisition (Nichols)
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Is Christmas Day Rooted in Paganism? (Busenitz)
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Bernard of Clairvaux and Mysticism (Nichols)
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The Gospel in Church History (Busenitz)
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Examining the Doctrine of Justification (Webster)
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The Morning Star of the Reformation (Nichols)
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The Seventh Century (Needham)
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The Eighth Century (Needham)
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The Ninth and Tenth Centuries (Needham)
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The Eleventh Century (Needham)
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The Twelfth Century (Needham)
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The Thirteenth Century (Needham)
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The Fourteenth Century (Needham)
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The Fifteenth Century (Needham)
The Reformation Period
A Century of Change (Needham)
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What Caused the Reformation? (Busenitz)
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The Personal Reformation of Martin Luther (Busenitz)
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​A Mighty Fortress (Busenitz)
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The Legacy of Martin Luther (Piper)
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The Legacy of John Calvin (Piper)
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The Father of the English Bible (Lawson)
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The Legacy of William Tyndale (Piper)
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The Bible in English (Nichols)
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A Quiz for Reformation Day (Busenitz)
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The Geneva Bible (Nichols)
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The Scottish Reformation (Nichols)
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The Death of Thomas Cranmer (Busenitz)
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Persecution, Perseverance, and Hope (Busenitz)
17th and 18th Centuries
Overview of the 17th Century (Needham)
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The Legacy of John Owen (Piper)
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John Owen and the Fight Against Sin (Ferguson)
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John Owen on Conversion (Ferguson)
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The Legacy of John Bunyan (Piper)
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When Others Do You Wrong (Busenitz)
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The Legacy of George Whitefield (Piper)
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The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards (Piper)
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The Extraordinary Life of Jonathan Edwards (Murray)
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The Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards (Nichols)
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Jonathan Edwards and Broken Resolutions (Busenitz)
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The Legacy of David Brainerd (Piper)
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John Wesley's Failed Marriage (Busenitz)
Does Calvinism Discourage Evangelism? (Busenitz)
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19th and 20th Centuries
A Life Not Wasted: Adoniram Judson (Busenitz)
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The Legacy of Adoniram Judson (Piper)
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The Contagious Chain of Missionary Zeal (Busenitz)
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Living and Dying for the Glory of God (Busenitz)
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Spurgeon on the Call to Missions (Busenitz)
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The Legacy of Hudson Taylor (Piper)
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The Legacy of John Paton (Piper)
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Spurgeon on How to Respond to Sermon Feedback (Busenitz)
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The Legacy of Charles Spurgeon (Piper)
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Preachers on Preaching (Busenitz)
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The Legacy of John Newton (Piper)
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The Legacy of William Wilberforce (Piper)
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The Legacy of Robert Murray McCheyne (Piper)
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The Legacy of George Muller (Piper)
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The Legacy of J.C. Ryle (Piper)
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What Would Jesus Do? (Busenitz)
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Learning from Liberals (Busenitz)
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The Legacy of B. B. Warfield (Grier)
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The Legacy of J. Gresham Machen (Piper)
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Our Fundamentalist Future (Busenitz)
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The Legacy of C.S. Lewis (Piper)
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The Legacy of Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Piper)
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