Volume 1: c. 742 BCE–793 CE
Isaiah 2 and 11
Gospel of Matthew
Didache
Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 16
Gospel of John
Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan: Letters on Treatment of the Christians
Letter of the Smyrnaeans on the Martyrdom of Polycarp
Irenaeus of Lyons: Against Heresies
The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity
Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
Eusebius: Ecclesiastical History
Nicene Creed
John Chrysostom: From the Eucharistic Prayer in the Byzantine Liturgy
Te Deum laudamus
Augustine of Hippo: The City of God
Agathangelos: History of Saint Gregory and the Conversion of Armenia
The Confession of Saint Patrick
Holy Rule of Saint Benedict
Code of Justinian
Umar I: Covenant
Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu
Saint John Damascene: On Divine Images
Bishop Daniel of Winchester: Letter to Boniface on Conversion
Bede: The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Saint Boniface: Letter to Pope Zacharias
Jingjing: Memorial of the Propagation in China of the Luminous Religion from Daqin
Alcuin of York: Letter to Higbald, Bishop of Lindisfarne, about the Viking Raid
Volume 2: 800– 1678
Charlemagne: Letter to Abbot Baugualf of Fulda
Henry IV of Germany and Pope Gregory VII: Letter and Ban
Pope Urban II: Call to Crusade
Bernard Atton, Viscount of Carcassonne: Charter of Homage and Fealty
Anna Comnena: Alexiad
The Journey of William of Rubruck
Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae
Dante: Divine Comedy
Raymond of Capua: The Life of St. Catherine of Siena
Joan of Arc: Letter to Henry VI
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man
Christopher Columbus: Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America
Hernán Cortés: Second Letter to Charles V
Martin Luther: Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
Nzinga Mbemba: Appeal to the King of Portugal
King Henry VIII: Act of Supremacy
John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion
Pope Paul III: Sublimus Dei
Ignatius of Loyola: The Spiritual Exercises
Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent
The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus
Robert Bellarmine: Letter Concerning Galileo’s Theories
Matteo Ricci: “Religious Sects among the Chinese”
Paul Le Jeune: “Brief Relation of the Journey to New France”
Antonio Valeriano: Nican Mopohua
John Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress
Report of Elena Piscopia’s Doctoral Presentation
Volume 3: 1738–present
Susanna Wesley: Letter to John Wesley
George Whitefield: “The Great Duty of Family- Religion”
Joseph Berington: The State and Behaviour of English Catholics, from the Reformation to the Year 1780
Thomas Jefferson: Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, the African
Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies
Jarena Lee: The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee
John Henry Newman: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Thomas Wentworth Higginson: “Negro Spirituals”
Pope Leo XIII: Rerum Novarum
Black Elk: Pastoral Letter
Joseph Hartz: “Harris, Prophet, West Africa, 1914”
Christopher Dawson: “The Kingdom of God and History”
Bishop Clemens von Galen: “Against Nazi Euthanasia”
C. S. Lewis: Mere Christianity
Vatican II
Pope Paul VI: Humanae Vitae
John Paul II: Homily
Billy Graham: “The Coming Storm”
Rigoberta Menchú: “The Bible and Self- Defence”
Desmond Tutu: “The Question of South Africa”
Testament of Dom Christian de Chergé
Vishal Mangalwadi: “Matrix of Missions: The Wesleyan Revival”
Brother Yun and Paul Hattaway: “Back to Jerusalem”
Report on the Crisis in the Catholic Church in the United States
Lamin Sanneh: Summoned from the Margin: Homecoming of an African
José María Di Paola: Interview
List of Documents by Category
Index