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A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFORMED CONFESSIONS OF CATECHISMS
Prolegomena to Symbolics
D. G. Hart, The Lost Soul of American Protestantism. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
--"J. Gresham Machen: Confessionalism and the History of American Presbyterianism," The Practical Calvinist: An Introduction to the Presbyterian and Reformed Heritage in Honor of Dr. D. Clair Davis, ed. Peter A. Lillback (Ross-Shire, UK: Mentor, 2002).
Charles Augustus Briggs. Theological Symbolics (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1914).
Abraham Kuyper, The Implications of Public Confession. trans. H. Zylstra (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1934).
John H. Skilton, ed. Scripture and Confession: A Book About Confessions Old and New (Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 1973.
Morton H. Smith, The Subscription Debate (Greenville, SC: Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, n.d.)
Samuel Miller, Doctrinal Integrity: On the Utility and Importance of Creeds and Confessions and Our Adherence to Doctrinal Standards (Dallas: Presbyterian Heritage Publications, 1989).
E. Routley, Creeds and Confessions: The Reformation and Its Modern Ecumenical Implications (London: Gerald Duckworth and Co., 1962).
David W. Hall, ed. The Practice of Confessional Subscription (Lanham: University Press of America, 1995).
Jaroslav Pelikan, Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003).
J. Gresham Machen, "Creeds and Doctrinal Advance." in God Transcendent and Other Sermons, ed. N. B. Stonehouse (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1949).
John Murray, "Tradition Romish and Protestant," in Collected Writings of John Murray, 4 vols (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1976-1982), 4.264-273.
--"A Notable Tercentenary." in Collected Writings of John Murray, 4 vols (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1976-1982), 1.312-315.
David F. Coffin, Jr., "The Justification of Confessions and the Logic of Confessional Subscription," The Practical Calvinist: An Introduction to the Presbyterian and Reformed Heritage in Honor of Dr. D. Clair Davis, ed. Peter A. Lillback (Ross-Shire, UK: Mentor, 2002).
Collections of Creeds, Confessions and Catechisms
John H. Leith, ed. Creeds of the Churches (Louisville: John Knox Press, 1973).
Phillip Schaff, ed., The Creeds of Christendom, 3 vols (Grand Rapids: Baker, repr. 1983).
Patristic Symbols and Creeds
J. N. D. Kelly, Early Christian Creeds (London: Longmans, 1960).
Gerald Bray, Creeds, Councils, and Christ: The Continuity Between Scripture and Orthodoxy in the First Five Centuries (Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1984).
Charles A. Heurtley, ed., De fide et symbolo: documenta quaedam nec non aliquorum ss. Patrum tractatus (Oxford and London, 1889).
A. E. Burn, An Introduction to the Creeds and to the Te Deum (London: Methuen, 1899).
Michael S. Horton, We Believe: Recovering the Essentials of the Apostles' Creed (Waco: Word, 1998).
D. Sayers. Creed or Chaos (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich: 1949).
H. Witsius, Sacred Dissertations on The Apostles’ Creed, trans. D. Fraser, 2 vols (Edinburgh, 1823; repr. Phillipsburg, 1993).
Caspar Olevianus, Exposition of the Symbole of the Apostles (London, 1581).
-- A Firm Foundation, trans. L. D. Bierma (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995)
-- De substantia foederis gratuiti inter Deum et electos (Geneva, 1585).
Daniel R. Hyde, "In Defense of the Descendit: A Confessional Response to Contemporary Critics of Christ’s Descent into Hell," Confessional Presbyterian Journal 3 (2007): 104-17.
Roman Symbols
Canones et Decreta Concilii Tridentini (Leipzig, 1860).
Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, trans. H. J. Schroeder (Rockford, 1978).
Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd edn (Vatican: Libreria editrice, 1997).
H. Denzinger, ed. Enchiridion Symbolorum, 30th edn (Freibourg: Herder, 1960).
-- The sources of Catholic Dogma. trans. Roy J. Deferrari (St. Louis, Herder [1957]
Reformation Symbolics
Mark A. Noll, ed. Confessions and Catechisms of the Reformation (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991.)
Lutheran Confessions and Catechisms
Robert Kolb and James A. Nestingen, eds., The Book of Concord: Sources and Contexts (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001).
-- and Timothy J. Wengert, eds. The Book of Concord. trans. Charles Arand et al.,
(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000).
F. Bente, ed. Concordia Triglotta (St Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921). Paul C. Empie and James I. McCord, eds. Marburg Revisited: A Reexamination of Lutheran and Reformed Traditions (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1966).
Lewis W. Spitz and W. Lohff eds, Discord, Dialogue and Concord: Study in the Lutheran Reformation’s Formula of Concord (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977).
Reformed Symbols in General
Jan Rohls, Reformed Confessions: Theology from Zurich to Barmen, Trans. John Hoffmeyer (Louisville: WJKP, 1998).
K. Barth, The Theology of the Reformed Confessions, trans, D. L. Guder and J. L. Guder (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002).
A. C. Cochrane, Reformed Confessions of the 16th Century (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1966).
Jean Francois Goulart and Simon Salvard. The Harmony of Protestant Confessions. Edited by Peter Hall (London: J. F. Shaw, 1844).
J. R. Beeke and S. B. Ferguson. Reformed Confessions Harmonized (Baker, 1999).
W. R. Godfrey, Reformation Sketches: Insights into Luther, Calvin, and the Confessions (Phillipsburg: P&R Publications, 2003).
John Murray. "Calvin, Dordt and Westminster on Predestination: A Comparative Study." in Collected Writings of John Murray, 4 vols (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1976-1982), 4.216-240. Heidelberg Catechism
Hyde, Daniel R. "The Holy Spirit in the Heidelberg Catechism," Mid-America Journal of Theology 17 (2006): 211-37.
Lyle D. Bierma, ed. An Introduction to the Heidelberg Catechism: Sources, History, and Theology. ed. by Richard A. Muller, Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005.
G. I. Williamson, The Heidelberg Catechism: A Study Guide (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 1993).
G. H. Kersten, The Heidelberg Catchism, trans. Netherlands Reformed Congregations in America (Sioux Center, IA: Netherlands Reformed Book and Publishing, 1992).
J. van Bruggen, Annotations to the Heidelberg Catechism, trans. A. H. Oosterhoff. (Neerlandia, Canada: Inheritance Publications, 1991).
B. Holwerda, De dingen die ons van God geschonken zijn, 4 vols (Goes: Oosterbann & Le Cointre, 1955).
G.W. Bethune, Guilt, Grace and Gratitude: Lectures on the Heidelberg Catechism, 2 vols (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2001).
N. Jones, Study Helps on the Heidelberg Catechism (Reformed Church in the U.S., 1981).
H. Beets, Compendium Explained (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans/Sevensma, 1919).
C. Van Til, The Triumph of Grace (Philadelphia: n.p., 1962).
Fred. H. Klooster, The Heidelberg Catechism: Origin and History (Grand Rapids: Calvin Theological Seminary, 1989).
The Heidelberg Catechism in German, Latin and English with an Historical Introduction. New York, 1863.
A. Wolters. ed., Der Heidelberger Katechismus in seiner ursprünglichen Gestalt, herausgegeben nebst der Geshichte seines Textes im Jahre 1563 (Bonn, 1864).
A. Lang, ed., Der Heidelberger Katechismus und vier verwandte Katechismen (Leo Jud’s und Micron’s kleine Katechismen, sowie die zwei vorarbeiten Ursins) (Leipzig, 1907).
Z. Ursinus, Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, trans. and ed. G. W. Willard (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 1985).
K. Barth. The Heidelberg Catechism for Today (London, 1964).
J. Beeke, "Faith and Assurance in the Heidelberg Catechism and its Primary Composers: A Fresh Look at the Kendall Thesis." Calvin Theological Journal 27
(1992), 39-67.
Lyle D. Bierma, "Olevianus and the Authorship of the Heidelberg Catechism: Another Look." Sixteenth Century Journal 13 (1982):17-27.
--"Philip Melanchthon and the Heidelberg Catechism." K. Maag, ed., Melanchthon in Europe: His Word and Influence Beyond Wittenberg (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999).
--. "Vester Grundt and the Origins of the Heidelberg Catechism." Later Calvinism: International Perspectives. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, vol. 22. ed. W. F. Graham (Kirksville: Sixteenth Century Publishers, 1994).
--. The Doctrine of the Sacraments in the Heidelberg Catechism: Melanchthonian, Calvinist or Zwinglian? Studies in Reformed Theology and History ed. D. Willis (Princeton Theological Seminary, 1999).
Bruggink, Donald. Guilt, Grace, and Gratitude: A Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, Commemorating its 400th anniversary (New York: Half Moon Press, 1963).
R. Scott Clark, Caspar Olevian and the Substance of the Covenant: The Double Benefit of Christ. Rutherford Studies in Historical Theology, ed. David F. Wright. (Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 2005).
Herman Hoeksema. The Triple Knowledge: An Exposition of the Heidelberg Catechism. 3 vols (Grand Rapids: Reformed Free Publishing Association, 1972).
J. K. van Balen, The Heritage of the Fathers: A Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1948).
K. Schilder, Heidelbergsche Catechismus, 4 vols (Goes: Oosterbaan & Le Cointre, 1947-1951).
J. Bastingius. An Exposition Upon The Catechisme Of The Lowe Countryes (Cambridge, 1589).
O. Thelemann. An aid to the Heidelberg catechism, trans. M. Peters (Grand Rapids: Douma Publications, 1959).
John Williamson Nevin. History and Genius of the Heidelberg Catechism (Chambersburg: German Reformed Church, 1847).
W. Niesel, "The witness of the power of the Holy Spirit in the Heidelberg Catechism" (Unpublished MS. 1963).
L. Coenen, ed., Handbuch zum Heidelberger Katechismus (Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1963).
J. I. Good, The Heidelberg Catechism in Its Newest Light (Philadelphia, 1914).
H. Harbaugh, "Creed and Cultus." Tercentenary Monument in Commemoration of the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism (Chambersburg, 1863).
Belgic Confession
Daniel R. Hyde, With Heart and Mouth: An Exposition of the Belgic Confession (Grandville: Reformed Fellowship, 2008)
Nicholaas H. Gootjes, The Belgic Confession: Its History and Sources. Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007).
Wes Bredenhof, "'The Whole Manner of Worship...' Worship and the Sufficiency of Scripture in Belgic Confession Article 7"
H. Beets, The Reformed Confession Explained (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1929).
G. De Bres, The Rise, Spring, and Foundation of the Anabaptists or Re-Baptized of our Time, trans. Joshua Scottow (Cambridge, 1668).
-- The Staff of the Christian Faith, trans. John Brooke (London, 1577).
Peter Y. DeJong. The Church's Witness to the World (Pella, IA: Pella Publishing, 1960).
Nicolaas H. Gootjes, "Calvin on Epicurus and the Epicureans: Background to a Remark in Article 13 of the Belgic Confession," Calvin Theological Journal 40 (2005): 33-48.
—"The Earliest Report on the Author of the Belgic Confession," Netherlands Archief vor de Kerkgeschiedenis 82 (2002): 86-94.
—"Problems with Proof Texts: The Proof Texts of Article 11 of the Belgic Confession and Their Implications for the Confession," Calvin Theological Journal 36 (2001): 372–378.
S. A. Strauss, "John Calvin and the Belgic Confession."
die Skriflig 27 (1993): 501–517.
Vallensis, Lepusculus. The Belgic Confession and Its Biblical Basis, trans. Rene Vermeulen (Neerlandia, AB and Caledonia, MI: Inheritance Publications, 1993).
Van Bruggen, Jacob. The Church Says Amen: An Exposition of the Belgic Confession, trans. Johanna VanderPlas (Neerlandia, AB and Pella, IA: Inheritance Publications, 2003).
Canons of Dort
Homer C. Hoeksema, The Voice of Our Fathers (Grand Rapids: Reformed Free Publishing, 1980).
Peter Y. DeJong, ed. Crisis in the Reformed Churches: Essays in Commemoration of the Great Synod of Dort 1618-1619 (Grand Rapids: Reformed Fellowship, 1968).
Thomas Scott. The Articles of the Synod of Dort (Harrisonburg, VA: Sprinkle Publications, 1993).
D. Sinnema, "Reformed Scholasticism and the Synod of Dort (1618-19), " in John Calvin's Institutes: His Opus Magnum (ed. B. J. Van de Walt. Potchefstroom, 1986).
--"The Issue of Reprobation at the Synod of Dort (1618-1619) in the light of the History of this Doctrine." Ph.D. Diss. University of St Michael's College, 1985.
Richard Muller. God, Creation , and Providence in the Thought of Jacob Arminius: Sources and Directions of Protestant Scholasticism in the Era of Early Orthodoxy (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991).
John Platt, Reformed Thought and Scholasticism: The Arguments for the Existence of God in Dutch Theology, 1575-1650 (Leiden: Brill, 1982).
-- "Eirenical Anglicans at the Synod of Dort." Reform and Reformation: England and the Continent c. 1500-1750. ed. D. Baker (Oxford, 1979).
Carl Bangs. Arminius: A Study in the Dutch Reformation (Nashville and New York: Abingdon, 1971).
W. R. Godfrey, "Tensions within International Calvinism: The Debate on the Atonement at the Synod of Dordt 1618-1619." Ph.D. diss. Stanford University, 1974.
Westminster Assembly and Standards
William S. Barker, Puritan Profiles: 54 Contemporaries of the Westminster Assembly(Ross-Shire, Scotland: Mentor, 1996).
Thomas Reid. Memoirs of the Westminster Divines (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1982).
Carson, John L. and David W. Hall, eds. To Glorify and Enjoy God: A Commemoration of the 350th Anniversary of the Westminster Assembly (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1994).
Ligon Duncan, ed. The Westminster Confession Into the 21st Century: Essays in Remembrance of the 350th Anniversary of the Westminster Assembly. 3 vols (Ross-Shire, Scotland: Mentor, 2004--).
Westminster Confession of Faith. Glasgow: Free
Presbyterian Publications, 1994.
Robert S. Paul, The Assembly of the Lord: Politics
and Religion in the Westminster Assembly and the ‘Grand
Debate.’ Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1985.
B. B. Warfield. The Westminster Assembly and Its Work. New York: Oxford University Press, 1931.
W. G. T. Shedd. Calvinism : Pure and Mixed : A
Defence of the Westminster Standards (Edinburgh:
Banner of Truth, 1986).
John H. Leith. Assembly at Westminster: Reformed
Theology in the Making. Richmond: John Knox Press,
1973.
John R. DeWitt. Jus divinum. The Westminster
Assembly and the Divine Right of Church Government.
Kampen: Kok, 1969.
A. F. Mitchell. The Westminster Assembly : Its
History and Standards. Philadelphia, 1897.
L. H. Holley. "The Divines of the Westminster
Assembly : A Study of Puritanism and Parliament." Ph.D.
Diss. Yale University, 1979.
R. H. Nichols. "The Tercentenary of the Westminster
Assembly." Church History 13 (1944): 25-41.
Chad B. van Dixhoorn. "Unity and Disunity at the
Westminster Assembly (1643-1649):
a commemorative essay"
Journal of Presbyterian
History 79 (2001): 103-117.
Wayne R. Spear, "A Brief History of the Westminster
Assembly." Evangel (11 Aug 1993): 73-76.
W. D. J. McKay, "George Gillespie and the Westminster
Assembly: The Defence of Presbyterianism." Scottish
Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 13 (1995): 51-71.
Rosemary D. Bradley. "The failure of accommodation:
Religious Conflicts Between Presbyterians and
Independents in the Westminster Assembly 1643-1646." Journal of Religious History 12 (1982): 23-47.
George Yule. "English Presbyterianism and the
Westminister Assembly." Reformed Theological Review
33 (1974): 33-44.
Weldon S. Crowley. "Erastianism in the Westminster
Assembly." Journal of Church and State 15 (1973):
49-64.
Ethyn Williams Kirby. "English Presbyterians in the
Westminster Assembly."
Church History 33 (1964): 418-427.
James C. Spalding. "The Demise of English
Presbyterianism: 1660-1760." Church History 28
(1959): 63-83.
W. S. Hudson. "Denominationalism as a basis for
ecumenicity: A Seventeenth Century Conception. Church
History 24 (1955): 32-50.
William Haller. "The Word of God in the Westminster
Assembly." Church History 18 (1949): 199-219.
Samuel William Carruthers. The Everyday Work of
the Westminster Assembly. Philadelphia: Presbyterian
Historical Society and Presbyterian Historical Society
of England, 1943.
William M. Hetherington. History of the
Westminster Assembly of Divines. New York : Mark
Newman, 1843.
Wayne R. Spear. "The Westminster Assembly and
Biblical Interpretation." The Book of Books: Essays
on the Scriptures in Honor of Johannes G. Vos, ed.
John H. White. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed,
1978.
A. F. Mitchell and John Struthers. Minutes of the
Sessions of the Westminster Assembly of Divines …
Philadelphia, 1874.
Hywel Jones. Thomas Cartwright 1535-1603. The
Annual Lecture of the Evangelical Library. London,
1970.
-- "The Death of Presbyterianism." in By Schisms
Rent Asunder. Papers Read the at the Puritan and
Reformed Studies Conference. London, 1969.
Westminster Confession
Sproul, R. C., Truths We Confess: A Layman's Guide to the
Westminster Confession of Faith:
Volume 1: The Triune God (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing,
2006).
Rowland S. Ward. The Westminster Confession of
Faith: A Study Guide, Rev. edn. Wantirna, Australia:
New Melbourne Press, 2004.
A. A. Hodge. The Confession of Faith.
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1958.
John V. Fesko. Diversity Within the Reformed
Tradition: Supra- and Infralapsarianism in Calvin, Dort
and Westminster. Greenville: Reformed Academic
Press, 2001.
S. W. Carruthers. The Westminster Confession of
Faith: Being an account of the preparation and printing
of its seven leading editions to which is appended a
critical text of the confession. Greenville, [repr]
1995.
Gordon H. Clark. What do Presbyterians Believe?
The Westminster Confession, Yesterday and Today.
Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1965.
Jack B. Rogers. Scripture in the Westminster
Confession: A Problem of Historical Interpretation for
American Presbyterianism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1967.
John H. Gerstner and Douglas F. Kelly and Philip
Rollinson. A Guide: the Westminster Confession of
Faith : Commentary. Signal Mt, TN, 1992.
R. L. Dabney. The Westminster Confession and
Creeds. Dallas: Presbyterian Heritage Publications,
1983.
Robert Shaw. An Exposition of the Confession of
Faith of the Westminster Assembly of Divines.
Ross-Shire: Christian Focus, 1980.
Craig A. Troxel. "Amyraut "at" the Assembly: The
Westminster Confession of Faith and the Extent of the
Atonement." Presbyterion (1996): 43-55.
David W. Hall. "What Was the View of the Westminster
Assembly of Divines on Creation Days?" in Did God
Create in Six Days? eds Joseph A. Pipa, Jr. and
David W. Hall Taylors, SC: Greenville Presbyterian
Theological Seminary and Oak Ridge, TN: The Covenant
Foundation, 1999.
Robert W. Letham. "'In the Space of Six Days' : The
Days of Creation from Origen to the Westminster
Assembly." Westminster Theological Journal 61
(1999): 149-174.
William S. Barker. "The Westminster Assembly on the
Days of Creation: A Reply to David W. Hall." Westminster Theological Journal 62 (2000): 113-120.
David J. Walker. "Thomas Goodwin and the debate on
church government." Journal of Ecclesiastical History
34 (1983): 85-99.
John Murray. "The Importance and Relevance of the
Westminster Confession." in Collected Writings of
John Murray, 4 vols. (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth
Trust, 1976-
1982), 1.316-322.
--"The Theology of the Westminster Confession of
Faith." in Collected Writings of John Murray, 4
vols. (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1976-1982),
4.241-263.
Michael Bauman, "Jonathan Dickinson and the
Subscription Controversy," Journal of the Evangelical
Theological Society 41 (1998): 455-467.
R. D. Anderson, "Of the Church: An
Historical Overview of the Westminster Confession of Faith,
Chapter 25" Westminster Theological Journal 59 (1997):
177-97.
Westminster Shorter Catechism
S. W. Carruthers. Three Centuries of the
Westminster Shorter Catechism. Fredrickton, New
Brunswick, 1957.
Thomas Vincent. The Shorter Catechism Explained
From Scripture. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Truth,
1980.
Thomas Watson. A Body of Divinity, Contained in
Sermons upon the Westminster Assembly's Catechism.
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1965.
Westminster Larger Catechism
Johannes G. Vos. The Westminster Larger Catechism:
A Commentary. Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2002.
Thomas Ridgeley. Commentary on the Larger
Catechism. Edmonton, AB: Still Waters Revival Books,
1993.
Chad van Dixhoorn. "The Making of the Westminster Larger Catechism." Reformation & Revival 10 (2001): 97-113.
Congregational Symbols
Williston Walker. The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism. Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1960.
Baptist Symbols
The Philadelphia Confession of Faith
James M. Renihan. A Theological Family Tree: The 2nd
London Baptist Confession of Faith and Its Source
Documents. Escondido: n.p., 2000. Arminian SymbolsEllis, Mark A., ed. The Arminian Confession of
1621. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2005.
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