Introduction to Church History

1. Singer, The Biblical View of History;
2. Noll, The Clean Sea Breeze of the Centuries

Phillip Schaff, History of the Christian Church:

• Nature of Church History
• Branches of Church History
• Sources of Church History
• Periods of Church History
• Uses of Church History
• Duty of the Historian

Johann Kurtz, Textbook of Church History

• Idea of Church History
• History of Church History

Heinrich Guericke, A Manual of Church History

• Church History: its problem and method
• Sources of Church History
• Coordinate and Subordinate branches of Church History
• Critical Survey of the literature in Church History

William Shedd, The Nature & Influence of the Historic Spirit; Lectures Upon the Philosophy of History

• J. G. Vos, The Use and Abuse of Church History