History

General

Jaroslav Pelikan - Credo (the new standard text in creedal/confessional history)

Bard Thompson - Liturgies of the Western Church

James F. White - A Brief History of Christian Worship

Patristics

The North American Patristics Society has a wonderful page of internet resources.

Tertullian.org - tons of church fathers!

Reformation

Horton Davies - The Worship of the English Puritans

Charles Garside, Jr. - Zwingli and the Arts

James Hastings Nichols - Corporate Worship in the Reformed Tradition

The Westminster Assembly Project

Books 

John Calvin - The Necessity of Reforming the Church [on-line version] (brief defense of the Reformation)

Hughes Oliphant Old - The Shaping of the Reformed Baptismal Rite in the Sixteenth Century 

Jaroslav Pelikan - Obedient Rebels: Catholic Substance and Protestant Principle in Luther’s Reformation

Articles 

Larry Sibley - The Legacy of the Geneva Liturgy

Modern

D.G. Hart -  John Williamson Nevin: High Church Calvinist (useful to understanding how one can be both “reformed” & “catholic” but also helpful in studying Nevin’s mistakes).  See also Nick Neeham’s brief review of Nevin’s Anxious Bench.

Thomas Oden - Requiem: A Lament in Three Movements (helpful in understanding the plight of the modern church)

2 Comments

  1. Comment by Lee on August 4, 2006 5:05 pm

    If I may suggest another possible book. Hughes Oliphant Old has another book called Guides to the Reformed Tradition: Worship, which is a nice historical survey of each area of worship from the OT to the present day.

  2. Comment by Gregory Soderberg on August 4, 2006 6:52 pm

    Thanks! I haven’t gotten to that one yet …

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