Most Important General Church Historians:Atlases and ChronologiesDictionaries and Encyclopedias
- A.—English:
- I.—Protestant:
- 1.—Abbott and Conant, Dictionary of Religious Knowledge.
N. Y., 1875.
- 2.—Benham, Dictionary of Religion. Lond. and N. Y., 1887.
- 3.—Blunt, A Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical
Theology. Lond. and Phil., 2d ed., 1891.
- 4.—Blunt, A Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical
Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought. Lond. and
Phil., 2d ed., 1886.
- 5.—Buck, A Theological Dictionary. Lond., 1847.
- 6.—Cheyne and Black, Encyclopædia Biblica. 4 vols. N. Y.,
1905.
- 7.—Eadie, The Ecclesiastical Cyclopædia. Lond., 1847.
- 8.—Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Phil., 1870.
- 9.—Farrar, An Ecclesiastical Dictionary. Lond., 1853.
- 10.—Gardner, The Christian Cyclopedia. Lond., 1854.
- 11.—Hastings, A Dictionary of the Bible. N. Y. and
Edinburgh.
- 12.—Herzog, A Protestant, Theological, and Ecclesiastical
Encyclopædia. 2 vols. Phil., 1858-60.
- 13.—Hook, A Church Dictionary. N. Y., 1875.
- 14.—Hook, Ecclesiastical Biography. 4 vols. Lond., 1845.
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15.—Jackson, Concise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge and
Gazetteer. N. Y., 1893.
- 16.—McClintock and Strong, Cyclopædia of Biblical,
Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. 10 vols. N.
Y., 1867-81. 2 sup. vols. 1884-86.
- 17.—Marsden, A Dictionary of Christian Churches and Sects. 2
vols. Lond., 1891.
- 18.—Sanford, A Concise Encyclopædia of Religious Knowledge.
N. Y., 1891.
- 19.—Schaff-Herzog, Encyclopædia of Religious Knowledge. 3
vols. N. Y., 1891.
- The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopædia of Religious Knowledge.
Revised by S. M. Jackson. N. Y. and Lond., 1908 ff. In
12 vols.
- 20.—Shipley, A Glossary of Ecclesiastical Forms. Lond.,
1871.
- 21.—Smith and Cheetham, A Dictionary of Christian
Antiquities. 2 vols. Bost., 1875-80.
- 22.—Smith and Wace, A Dictionary of Christian Biography,
Literature, Sects, and Doctrines. 4 vols. Bost.,
1877-87.
- 23.—Stanton, An Ecclesiastical Dictionary. N. Y., 1861.
- 24.—Wolcott, Sacred Archeology. Lond., 1868.
- II.—Catholic:
- 1.—Addis and Arnold, A Catholic Dictionary. N. Y., 1884.
- 2.—Gillow, Dictionary of English Catholic Biography and
Bibliography. (1534-1884.) 6 vols. Lond., 1887-94.
- 3.—Gibbings, Index Expurgatoris. Lond., 1837.
- 4.—Butler, Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Saints.
12 vols. Lond., 1866.
- 5.—Berington, The Faith of Catholics. 3 vols. Lond., 1846.
- 6.—The Catholic Encyclopedia. N. Y., 1907 ff. (To be
completed in 15 vols.)
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7.—Thein, Ecclesiastical Dictionary, 1905.
- III.—Jewish and Mohammedan:
- 1.—The Jewish Encyclopedia. 12 vols. N. Y., 1902-5.
- 2.—Encyclopedia Islam. 3 vols. 1908.
- B.—Foreign:
- I.—Protestant:
- 1.—Hauck, Herzog's Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische
Theologie und Kirche. 1896 ff.
- 2.—Lichtenberger, Encyclopédie des Sciences Religieuses.
Paris, 1872-82. 13 vols.
- II.—Catholic:
- 1.—Aschbach, Allgemeines Kirchen-Lexicon. Frankf.,
1846-50. 4 vols.
- 2.—Wetzer und Welte, Kirchen Lexicon. Freib., 1847-56. 12
vols.
- 3.—Hergenröther und Kauler. Kirchenlexikon oder Encyklopädie
der Katholischen Theologie und ihrer Hilfswissenschaften. Freib.,
1880-1895. 10 vols.
- C.—Consult standard secular encyclopædias like Britannica, Johnson,
International, etc.