Christianity - Commentary
Sermons of Leo the Great
Leo the Great was unanimously elected Bishop of Rome on September 29, 440 AD. At the Council of Chalcedon, his famous "Tome" was a…
Sermons on Several Occasions
John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. "The following Sermons contain the …
The Treasury of David
Charles Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among…
Fear and Trembling
"And God tempted Abraham and said unto him: take Isaac, thine only son, whom thou lovest and go to the land Moriah and sacrifice him th…
On the Spirit and the Letter
The Tribune Marcellinus having received the books ''On the Merit of Sins," wrote to St. Augustine that he was surprised at what he had …
The Directory of the Devout Life
We can never allow the great objective facts of Christianity, and their attendant doctrines, to sink low on our horizon; but we must give eq…
The Death and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ
Homilies 65 though 90 of St John Chrysostom's commentary on the Holy Gospel according to St Matthew, which include the death and resurrectio…
The Smalcald Articles
The Smalcald Articles is a foundational text of Lutheran doctrine, penned by Martin Luther in 1537. Created for the Schmalkaldic League's me…
Treatise on Christ and Antichrist
In this late second century treatise, Hippolytus gives an excellent summary of Early Christian thinking on the subject of the antichrist. Fa…
Hebrews
"Jesus Christ is the radiance of the glory of God, the superior Son of God, the great High Priest, and the Mediator of a better covenan…
Institutes of the Christian Religion
At the head of the list of Calvin’s writings stands his great dogmatic treatise — the Institutes of the Christian Religion. In a very litera…
Joseph
I remember seeing the huge Matterhorn reflected, in its minutest details, in a small mountain lakelet, many miles distant; and similarly, th…
Summa Contra Gentiles
The Summa Contra Gentiles was composed by Thomas Aquinas between 1259 and 1265, in four books broadly covering teachings on God, on Creation…
The Treasury of David
Charles Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among…
The Penny Catechism
A question and answer format catechism that was the standard catechetical text in Great Britain throughout most of the 20th century. Popular…
The Crook in the Lot
A meditation on Ecclesiastes 7:3, "Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight which he hath made crooked?," The Cro…
That Christ Is One
Cyril of Alexandria was the leading voice of Nicene orthodoxy in the Christological controversies between Constantinople (381) and Chalcedon…
James
The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The author identifies himself as James (James 1:1), traditionally understood …
Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
Galatians is a letter from Paul of Tarsus to a number of Early Christian communities in the Roman province of Galatia in central Anatolia. P…
The Catholic Church and Conversion
Written after his conversion, G.K. Chesterton explains his understanding of Catholicism, and discusses the nature and the process of convers…