CH601 Church History

Baptists
- Baptists
- Baptists: Their Historical Relation to the Protestant Reformation
Church History Resources
- Notes on Church History -- An exhaustive annotated timeline of the key events in church history from an Eastern Orthodox perspective
- Church History Study Helps -- Articles of varying quality and value, covering an eclectic range of topics.
- History of Christianity
- What did early Christians believe? (Before 500AD)
Documents
- Classics Ethereal Library
- The Ecole Initiative
- Historic Church Documents -- Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics (CRTA)
- Historical Texts
- Internet Christian Library
- The St. Pachomius Library : (original and reprinted translations of patristic texts and liturgical documents)
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
- Church Creeds and Doctrinal Statements
Early Church
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- Selected Sources -- This is an index of selected and excerpted texts for teaching purposes. Since it had grown too large for many users to manage, as of October 10 1998, it has been extensively reorganized. For teachers who wish to refer students to the Sourcebook, this page is the best starting point.
- Full Text Sources -- Full texts of medieval sources arranged according to type.
- Saints' Lives -- Devoted to Ancient, Medieval and Byzantine hagiographical sources.
- Maps and Images -- A Section of the Sourcebook providing a wide array of public domain, and copy-permitted maps and images. [US Law]
- Western Monasticism - After A.D. 900
- The Mendicant Orders
- The Secular Clergy
- Medieval Heresy
- Christian Spirituality
- For Papal history, see the Empire and Papacy section
- For Church as an economic entity, see the Economic Life section
Medieval Church
- The Labyrinth: A World Wide Web Server for Medieval Studies
- Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Index of Internet Resources
Monasticism
Reformation
- The Protestant Reformation
- The Catholic Reformation
- Luther Reformation
- Introduction to the 'History of the Reformed Church' -- Online Lessons
Spurgeon -- The largest collection of Spurgeon resources on the web
Timelines

The Path to Godliness Leads through the Valley of Suffering

1 Peter 5:8-10 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. 10 But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Rejoice in the midst of Sufferings

1 Peter 4:12-13 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; 13 but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 1 Peter 1:6-7 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith--more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.