This list includes books we have consulted in making our site, as well as general works we recommend.

  • Anatolios, Khaled. Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine. Grand Rapids MI: Baker Academic, 2011.
  • Ayres, Lewis . Nicaea and its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Barnes, T. D. Athanasius and Constantius: Theology and Politics in the Constantinian Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • Barnes, T. D. Constantine and Eusebius. Cambridge University Press, 1981.
  • Coleman-Norton, P.R. Roman State and Christian Church. London: SPCK, 1966.
  • Brown, Peter. The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
  • Curran, J.R., Pagan City and Christian Capital: Rome in the Fourth Century Oxford, 2000.
  • Fernández, Samuel. 2024. Fontes Nicaenae Synodi: The Contemporary Sources for the Study of the Council of Nicaea (304–337). Leiden: Brill, 2024.
  • Frend, W.H.C., and James Stevenson, Eds. Creeds, Councils, and Controversies, Revised Edition. London: SPCK, 1989.
  • Frend, W.H.C. The Donatist Church : A Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952.
    Frend, W.H.C. Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church. Lutterworth Press, 2008.
  • Frend, W.H.C., and James Stevenson, Eds. A New Eusebius: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church to AD 337. Revised Edition. Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  • Hanson, R.P.C . The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God. London: T&T Clark, 1988.
  • Hauben, Hans. 2012. Studies on the Melitian Schism in Egypt (AD 306-335).  Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Variorum, 2012.
  • Kelly, J.N.D., Jerome: His Life, Writings, and Controversies. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1998.
  • Kelly, J.N.D., Golden Mouth: The Story of John Chrysostom: Ascetic, Preacher, Bishop. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1995.
  • Kim, Young Richard. The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
    Kinzig, Wolfram. A History of Early Christian Creeds. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024.
  • Parvis, Sarah . Marcellus of Ancyra And the Lost Years of the Arian Controversy 325-345. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Price, Richard, and T. Graumann. The Council of Ephesus of 431: Documents and Proceedings. Liverpool University Press, 2021.
  • Smither, Edward. Rethinking Constantine: History, Theology, and Legacy. Wipf & Stock, 2014.
  • Smulders, Pieter Frans, Hilary of Poitiers’ Preface to His Opus Historicum: Translation and Commentary. Leiden: Brill, 1995.
  • Thompson, Glen L., The Correspondence of Pope Julius I.  Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2015.
  • Wilken, Robert Louis. 2003. The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003
  • Williams, Daniel. Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Nicene-Arian Conflicts. Oxford, 1995.
  • Williams, Rowan. Arius: Heresy and Tradition. Revised Edition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.

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