Top 25 Christian Classics
Christian History magazine asked a number of their past contributors to help identify the most influential works in Christian history (aside from the Bible).
Here are the Top 25 writings as selected by Christian History:
- Augustine, Confessions (c. 398)
- Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (1265–1274)
- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
- Augustine, City of God (413–426)
- Martin Luther, 95 Theses (1517)
- John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)
- The Nicene Creed (325, revised 381)
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1952)
- Athanasius, On the Incarnation (c. 319)
- Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418–1427)
- Benedict, Rule (c. 540s)
- The Book of Common Prayer (1549)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (1937)
- Martin Luther, Freedom of a Christian (1520)
- Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics (1932–1967)
- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1320)
- Anselm, Why God Became Man (c. 1095–1098)
- Augustine, On Christian Teaching (397–426
- Augustine, On the Trinity (c. 400–428)
- Westminster Confession (1646)
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies (c. 175–185)
- John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (1777)
- Jonathan Edwards, Religious Affections (1746)
- Pope Gregory I, Pastoral Rule (c. 591)
- Martin Luther, Lectures on Romans (c. 1515–1516)