Christian Literature : An Anthology

by McGrath, Alister E.

• ISBN13: 9780631216063
• ISBN10: 0631216065
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-30
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This anthology of Christian literature gathers together writings drawn from 2000 years of Christian history.

Author Biography

Alister E McGrath is Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University, and Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
How to Use This Work	xvi
The Structure of the Work	xviii
Part I The Patristic Period, ca. 100--600
Introduction	3	(10)
Clement of Rome (active around 96)	13	(4)
The First Letter to Corinth	14	(3)
Ignatius of Antioch (died ca. 107)	17	(4)
The Letter to the Romans	17	(4)
The Martyrdom of Polycarp (ca. 155)	21	(9)
Irenaeus of Lyons (ca. 130--ca. 200)	30	(13)
Against all Heresies	31	(12)
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullian (ca. 160--ca. 225)	43	(9)
The Apology	44	(8)
Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260--ca. 340)	52	(11)
Ecclesiastical History	52	(11)
Athanasius of Alexandria (ca. 296--373)	63	(12)
De Incarnatione	64	(5)
The Life of Antony	69	(6)
Ephraim the Syrian (303--373)	75	(6)
The Pearl	76	(5)
Cyril of Jerusalem (ca. 315--387)	81	(7)
The Catechetical Lectures	82	(6)
Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 330--ca. 395)	88	(8)
Funeral Oration on Meletius	89	(7)
The Peregrination of Egeria (ca. 384)	96	(9)
Augustine of Hippo (354--430)	105	(10)
Confessions	106	(9)
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (ca. 530--ca. 610)	115	(11)
Vexilla Regis prodeunt	116	(5)
Part II English and Irish Sources, ca. 600--1050
Introduction	121	(5)
Caedmon's Hymn (ca. 670)	126	(2)
Bede (ca. 673--735)	128	(6)
History of the English Church and Nation	129	(4)
Bede's Death Song	133	(1)
The Deer's Cry (ca. 700)	134	(3)
The Dream of the Rood (ca. 750)	137	(5)
The Junius Codex (ca. 870)	142	(9)
Genesis B	143	(4)
Christ and Satan	147	(4)
The Exeter Book Riddles	151	(4)
Riddle 47	151	(1)
Riddle 26	152	(3)
The Blickling Homilist (ca. 970)	155	(6)
Homily for Easter Day	155	(6)
Ælfric (ca. 955--ca. 1020)	161	(6)
The Passion of St Edmund	161	(6)
Wulfstan (died 1023)	167	(14)
Lupi Sermo ad Anglos	168	(7)
Part III The Middle Ages, 1050--1500
Introduction	175	(6)
Anselm of Canterbury (1033--1109)	181	(5)
A Prayer to Christ	182	(4)
Peter Abelard (1079--1142)	186	(8)
The History of Calamities	187	(7)
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090--1153)	194	(4)
On Loving God	195	(3)
Francis of Assisi (1182--1226)	198	(3)
The Canticle of the Creatures	199	(2)
Ancrene Wisse (ca. 1230)	201	(6)
Thomas Aquinas (1224--1274)	207	(3)
Summa Theologiae	208	(2)
Hugh of Balma (ca. 1290)	210	(2)
The Roads to Zion	210	(2)
Dante Alighieri (1265--1321)	212	(6)
Inferno	214	(4)
Ludolf of Saxony (ca. 1300--1378)	218	(3)
The Life of Christ	219	(2)
The Cloud of Unknowing (ca. 1350)	221	(8)
William Langland (ca. 1332--ca. 1400)	229	(11)
Piers Plowman	230	(10)
Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1342--1400)	240	(6)
The Canterbury Tales	241	(5)
Julian of Norwich (ca. 1342--after 1416)	246	(6)
Revelations of Divine Love	247	(5)
The York Mystery Plays (ca. 1415)	252	(11)
Thomas a Kempis (1379--1471)	263	(6)
The Imitation of Christ	264	(5)
William Dunbar (ca. 1460--ca. 1520)	269	(18)
Rorate coeli desuper	270	(5)
Part IV The Renaissance and Reformation, 1500--1700
Introduction	275	(12)
Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469?--1536)	287	(12)
Moriae Encomium	289	(10)
Martin Luther (1483--1546)	299	(23)
Letter on Translating the New Testament	303	(10)
The ``Little Instruction Book'' or ``Lesser Catechism''	313	(9)
Ignatius Loyola (ca. 1491--1556)	322	(4)
The Spiritual Exercises	323	(3)
John Calvin (1509--1564)	326	(8)
Institutes of the Christian Religion	328	(6)
John Foxe (1516--1587)	334	(11)
The Acts and Monuments of Matters Happening in the Church	336	(9)
Edmund Spenser (1552--1599)	345	(11)
The Hymn of Heavenly Beauty	346	(10)
The King James Version of the Bible (1611)	356	(25)
The Translators' Preface	358	(18)
Selected Passages	376	(5)
Sir Walter Ralegh (ca. 1552--1618)	381	(3)
The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage	382	(2)
Lancelot Andrewes (1555--1626)	384	(12)
Sermon XIV	385	(11)
William Shakespeare (1564--1616)	396	(4)
Sonnet 146	398	(2)
John Donne (1571/2--1631)	400	(20)
Sermon 1	401	(15)
Divine Meditations	416	(4)
George Herbert (1593--1633)	420	(10)
The Temple	421	(6)
A Priest to the Temple	427	(3)
Sir Thomas Browne (1605--1682)	430	(6)
Religio Medici	431	(5)
John Milton (1608--1674)	436	(6)
Paradise Lost	437	(5)
Jeremy Taylor (1613--1667)	442	(6)
The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying	443	(5)
Henry Vaughan (1622--1695)	448	(5)
The British Church	448	(2)
Religion	450	(3)
Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)	453	(6)
Bermudas	454	(2)
The Coronet	456	(3)
Blaise Pascal (1623--1662)	459	(8)
Pensees	461	(6)
John Bunyan (1626--1688)	467	(3)
The Book of Common Prayer (1662)	470	(17)
The ``General Confession''	472	(1)
The ``General Thanksgiving''	472	(1)
The Solemnization of Matrimony	473	(3)
At the Burial of the Dead	476	(5)
Part V The Modern Period, 1700--2000
Introduction	481	(6)
Daniel Defoe (1660--1731)	487	(9)
Joseph Addison (1672--1719)	496	(3)
Ode	497	(1)
Cato	498	(1)
Isaac Watts (1674--1748)	499	(2)
When I Survey The Wondrous Cross	499	(2)
Joseph Butler (1692--1752)	501	(6)
Jonathan Edwards (1703--1758)	507	(9)
Treatise Concerning Religious Affections	508	(2)
The Christian Pilgrim	510	(6)
John Wesley (1703--1791)	516	(11)
``Preface'' to Sermons On Several Occasions	517	(3)
Sermon 2: The Almost Christian	520	(7)
Charles Wesley (1707--1788)	527	(5)
Love Divine	528	(1)
Free Grace	529	(3)
John Newton (1725--1807)	532	(7)
The Olney Hymns	533	(6)
William Paley (1743--1805)	539	(7)
A View of the Evidences of Christianity	540	(6)
William Blake (1757--1827)	546	(4)
``And did those feet?'' from ``Milton''	547	(3)
William Wordsworth (1770--1850)	550	(13)
Tintern Abbey	551	(6)
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	557	(6)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1791--1834)	563	(7)
Religious Musings	565	(2)
Confessions of an Enquiring Spirit	567	(3)
John Keble (1792--1866)	570	(10)
``National Apostasy''	571	(9)
John Henry Newman (1801--1890)	580	(5)
The Dream of Gerontius	582	(3)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)	585	(6)
Nature	586	(5)
Anthony Trollope (1815--1882)	591	(7)
Barchester Towers	593	(5)
Benjamin Jowett (1817--1893)	598	(11)
The Interpretation of Scripture	599	(10)
George Eliot (1819--1880)	609	(11)
Scenes of Clerical Life	610	(10)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821--1881)	620	(16)
The Brothers Karamazov	621	(15)
Matthew Arnold (1822--1888)	636	(4)
Dover Beach	637	(3)
George MacDonald (1824--1905)	640	(8)
Lilith: A Romance	641	(7)
Thomas Hardy (1840--1928)	648	(8)
Jude the Obscure	649	(7)
Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844--1889)	656	(3)
God's Grandeur	657	(2)
Oscar Wilde (1854--1900)	659	(20)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol	661	(18)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874--1936)	679	(9)
Orthodoxy	680	(4)
The Everlasting Man	684	(4)
T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)	688	(7)
The Waste Land	689	(3)
The Journey of the Magi	692	(3)
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893--1957)	695	(12)
The Man Born to be King	696	(6)
The Mind of the Maker	702	(5)
C. S. Lewis (1898--1963)	707	(11)
The Screwtape Letters	709	(4)
Till We Have Faces	713	(5)
Graham Greene (1904--1991)	718	(10)
The Power and the Glory	719	(9)
R. S. Thomas (1913--)	728	(5)
Pieta	729	(1)
Via Negativa	730	(3)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929--1968)	733	(6)
I Have a Dream	735	(4)
David Lodge (1935--)	739	(8)
How Far Can You Go?	739	(8)
Garrison Keillor (1942--)	747	(6)
Lake Wobegon Days	748	(5)
A Glossary of Terms	753	(8)
Sources of Extracts	761	(8)
For Further Reading	769	(2)
Acknowledgments	771	(3)
Index	774