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The Scriptures
Hypertext Bible IndexThe King James Bible
The Vulgate (Latin Bible)
The Apocrypha
Gnosticism, etc.
There is now a separate Gnosticism Index. This will include files on Gnostic beliefs which were located on this page as well as new material; no existing files will move.
Pistis SophiaTranslated by G.R.S. Mead [1921].
Corpus Hermeticum Translated by G.R.S. Mead
The Hymn of Jesus, Echoes from the Gnosis Translated by G.R.S. Mead [1907].
Gnostic John the Baptizer Selections from the Mandæan John-Book, G.R.S. Mead trans. [1924].
Note: While the Mandaeans are not Christians, this text is important for the study of Gnostic beliefs -- editor.
The Book of Giants A fragmentary Manichaean text.
Apocrypha Arabica by Margaret Dunlop Gibson [1901]
Early Christian
The Gospel of Thomas [ca 200 A.D.]The Lord's Prayer
Hail Mary (Ave Maria)
The Apostles' Creed 831 bytes
Nicene Creed 1,381 bytes
Latin Mass: Ordinary of the Mass (the Tridentine Ordo). [Latin and English] 110,236 bytes
The Athanasian Creed 4,239 bytes
The Confessions Of Saint Augustine [401 A.D.]
Writings of the Early Church Fathers
Thanks to the Christian Classics Ethereal Library
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite (ca. 400 A.D.)
by Dionysius the Areopagite, tr. by John Parker [1897]
A very early Christian mystic writer with Neoplatonist influences.
Eastern Churches
The Book of the Bee Edited and translated by E. A. Wallis Budge [1886]The Book of the Cave of Treasures translated from the Syriac by E. A. Wallis Budge [1927]
The Kebra Nagast translated by E. A. Wallis Budge [1932]
Mediaeval, Renaissance and Reformation
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England (731)by Bede, ed. by A.M. Sellar [1907]
Works of St. Anselm (b. 1033 d. 1109)
by St. Anselm of Canterbury, tr. by Sidney Norton Deane [1903]
The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise (1128)
Tr. by Anonymous, edited by Israel Gollancz and Honnor Morten [1901]
The tragic romance of two top Christian intellectuals in 12th century France.
The Story of My Misfortunes: The Autobiography of Peter Abelard
Tr. by Henry Adams Bellows [1922]
The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi (b. 1181 d. 1226)
by Paschal Robinson [1905]
Includes the Canticle of the Sun, a moving prayer of praise to "Brother Sun, Sister Moon."
The Little Flowers of St. Francis
Trans. by W. Heywood [1906]
The legends of St. Francis and the early Franciscans.
Summa Theologica (1265-1274)
by St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. by The Fathers of the English Dominican Province [1948]
An encylopedia-length work which deals with every concievable aspect of Catholic theology.
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, tr. by Henry F. Cary, (1888) [1306-21]
The Cloud of Unknowing (ca. 1400)
by Anonymous, ed. by Evelyn Underhill [1922]
Meditations of an anonymous 14th century Christian mystic.
Imitation of Christ (ca. 1418)
by Thomas a Kempis, tr. by William Benham [1886]
A contemplative classic of Christian mysticism.
Texts of Martin Luther (b. 1483 d. 1546)
Texts of John Calvin (b. 1509 d. 1564)
Foxe's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe [ca. 1560]
Synod of Dordrecht [1618-9] 84,371 bytes
Heidelberg Catechism 78,054 bytes
The Second Helvetic Confession 205,436 bytes
Church Order (Reformed Churches of the Netherlands) [1618-9] 35,791 bytes
Liturgy of the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands 96,092 bytes
Westminster Shorter Catechism [1674] 28,457 bytes
The Westminster Confession Of Faith 86,068 bytes
Westminster Larger Catechism 95,425 bytes
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained by John Milton [1667 and 1671]
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan [1678]
Bunyan by James Anthony Froude [1901]
This is a biography of the author of Pilgrim's Progress.
Angelus Silesius
Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer, trans. with intro. by J. E. Crawford Flitch [1932]
Alexandrines: translated from the "Cherubinischer Wandersmann", Julia Bilger [1944]
The Interior Castle or, The Mansions, by St. Teresa of Avila [1921]
A roadmap to mystical union with God.
Modern
Unitarian Christianity By William Ellery Channing [1819] 78,508 bytesNew England Primer [1843]
Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ by William Miller [1842]
Miller predicted that Jesus would return in 1844.
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anne Catherine Emmerich [1843]
The primary source for the movie The Passion of the Christ.
The Great Controversy by Ellen G. White [1858]
One of the earliest documents of the movement which became the Seventh-day Adventists.
Notes on the Book of the Revelation by John Nelson Darby [1876] (2nd ed.)
The Man of Sorrows by John Nelson Darby [no date (pre-1882)]
Shaker documents
The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ by Nicolas Notovitch, trans. by J. H. Connelly and L. Landsberg [1890]
Did Jesus spend his lost years in India?
The Baltimore (Catholic) Catechism [1891]
Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler, John Gilmary Shea (Benziger Bros. ed.) [1894]
400 Catholic Saints' days from around the year
The Doctrine of the Last Things by W.O.E. Oesterley [1908]
The Seeming Unreality of the Spiritual Life by Henry Churchill King [1908]
Folk-lore of the Holy Land
by J. E. Hanauer [1909]
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy [1910]
John Wesley's Place in History by Woodrow Wilson [1915]
The Book of Revelation by Clarence Larkin [1919]
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by Levi H. Dowling [1920]
The Gist of Swedenborg by Julian K. Smyth and William F. Wunsch [1920]
The Political Aspects of S. Augustine's 'City of God' by John Neville Figgis [1921]
Human Nature in the Bible by William Lyon Phelps [1922]
The Theological Declaration of Barmen [1934] 16,737 bytes
The (Episcopal) Book of Common Prayer [1979] 972,615 bytes
The community of Christian etext redactors is very active,
and transcriptions of public domain books on the topic are abundant.
The following are archives of public domain etexts about Christianity and
related topics, which contain much more material than we have
room or bandwidth for at this site.
Some of these are:
External Sites
Additional Early Church Fathers at the Tertullian Project website.
This dovetails with the 'Early Church Fathers' collection at CCEL.
The Unbound Bible
has the best collection of downloadable Bible data files anywhere. Highly recommended.
Digital Christian Library
Dozens of etexts on Christianity, rare Bibles,
and related topics,
with many unique items, by a very active scanner who has
contributed to sacred-texts under the handle 'Some Dude'.
The Gnostic Society
A collection of shorter texts on Gnosticism.
Also has a collection of Dead Sea Scroll translations.
The Catholic Encyclopeda
This is a project to put online this huge work from 1913.
Project Wittenberg
A comprehensive archive of Lutheran texts, of general interest
for the study of Protestantism.
Quaker Heritage Press
publishes etexts of rare and out-of-print Quaker documents.
Restoration Movement Texts.
Primary texts of a 19th century American
religious movement,
predecessor of Churches of Christ,
the Christian Churches,
and the Disciples of Christ, among other groups.