
CEAC
CENTER FOR EARLY AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY

Further Reading By Theologian
Athanasius
Lyman, R. J. Christology and Cosmology: Models of Divine Activity in Origen, Eusebius and Athanasius. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
Meijering, E.P. Orthodoxy and Platonism in Athanasius: Synthesis or Antithesis? Leiden: Brill, 1968.
Weinandy, Thomas G. Athanasius: A Theological Introduction. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.
Zahn, Theodor. Athanasius und der Bibelkanon. 1901. Reprint, Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2010.
Augustine
Getty, Marie Madeleine of Jesus, Sister. The Life of the North Africans as Revealed in the Sermons of Saint Augustine. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1931.
Scott, T. Kermit. Augustine: His Thought in Context. New York: Paulist, 1995.
Wills, Gary. Saint Augustine. New York: Viking, 1999.
Cyprian
Benson, E. W. Cyprian: His Life, His Times, His Work. London: Macmillan, 1897.
Brent, Allen. Cyprian and Roman Carthage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Burns, J. Patout, Jr. Cyprian the Bishop. London: Routledge, 2002.
Greenslade, S. L., ed. Early Latin Theology: Selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome. Library of Christian Classics 5. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1956.
Cyril
Russell, Norman. Cyril of Alexandria. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Weinandy, Thomas G., ed. The Theology of St. Cyril of Alexandria: A Critical Appreciation. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2003.
Wessel, Susan. Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian Controversy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Wilken, Robert Louis. Judaism and the Early Christian Mind: A Study of Cyril of Alexandria’s Exegesis and Theology. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1971.
Origen
Crouzel, Henri. Origen. Translated by A.S. Worrall. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1989.
Hanson, R. P. C. Origen’s Doctrine of Tradition. 1954. Reprint, Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2013.
Lyman, R. J. Christology and Cosmology: Models of Divine Activity in Origen, Eusebius and Athanasius. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
Martens, Peter. Origen and Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Trigg, Joseph Wilson. Origen: The Bible and Philosophy in the Third-Century Church. Atlanta: John Knox, 1983.
Tzamalikos, Panayiotes. Origen: Cosmology and Ontology of Time. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
Tertullian
Dunn, Geoffrey D. Tertullian. London: Routledge, 2004.
Gonzalez, Eliezer. “Anthropologies of Continuity: The Body and Soul in Tertullian, Perpetua, and Early Christianity.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 21 (2013) 479-502.
Greenslade, S. L., ed. Early Latin Theology: Selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome. Library of Christian Classics 5. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1956.
Osborn, Eric. Tertullian: First Theologian of the West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Rankin, David. Tertullian and the Church. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Shortt, Charles De Lisle. The Influence of Philosophy on the Mind of Tertullian. London: E. Stock, 1933.
Wilhite, David E. Tertullian the African: An Anthropological Reading of Tertullian’s Context and Identities. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007.
French Language
Abdel-Sayed, Edris. Les Coptes d’Egypte: les premiers Chrétiens du Nil. Paris: Publisud, 1992.
Basset, René M. J., ed. Le synaxaire arabé jacobite (rédaction Coptic). Texte arabe publié, traduit et annoté par R. Basset. 6 vols. Patrologia Orientalis 1 (1907): 215-379; 3 (1909): 243-545; 11 (1915) 505-859; 16 (1922): 185-424; 17 (1923): 525-782; 20 (1929): 735-89.
Binwenyi-Kweshi, Oscar. Discours theologique negro-africain - Probleme des fondements (Black African Theological Discourse). Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1995.
Cheneau, Paul. Les Saints d’Egypte. (2 vols.) Jerusalem: Couvente des RR. PP Franciscains, 1923.
Delehaye, Hippolyte. “Les martyrs d’Egypte.” Analecta Bollandiana 40 (1922): 5-154; 299-364.
Martin, M. M. “Une Lecture de l’Histoire des Patriarches d’Alexandrie.” Proche Orient Chrétien 35 (1985): 15-36.
Muschete, Alphonse Ngindu. Les thèmes majeures de la théologie africaine. Paris: L’Harmattan, 1989.
Sawirus Ibn al-Mukaffa’. (Severe ibn el Mokaffée.) Homélie sur Sainte Marc, apôtre et évangéliste. Texte arabe et traduction et notes. Translated by J.-J. L. Bargés. 1877. Re-print, Paris, 1952.
Senghor, Léopold Sédar. Liberté, Vol. 3, Négritude et civilisation de l’nniversel. Paris: Editions de Seuil 1977. Cf. idem, “Negritude and the Civilization of the Universal” in African Presence in the Americas, edited by Carlos Moore, pp. 21-32. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1995.
German Language
Baumeister, Theofried. Martyr invictus, der Martyrer als Sinnbild der Erlösung in der Legende und im Kult der Frühen koptischen Kirche: Zur Kontinuität des ägyptischen Denkens. Forschungen zur Volkskunde 46. Münster: Regensberg, 1972.
Boochs, Wolfgang, ed. Geschichte und Geist der koptischen Kirche. Langwaden: Bernardus-Verlag, 2004.
Gelzer, Heinrich. Sextus Julius Africanus und die Byzantinische Chronographie. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1880.
Gerhards, Albert, and Heinzgerd Brakmann, eds. Die Koptische Kirche: Einführung in das ägyptische Christentum. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1994.
Grossmann, Peter. Christliche Architektur in Ägypten. Erste Abteilung: Nahe und der Mittlere Osten. Handbuch der Orientalistik 62. Leiden: Brill, 2002.
Krause, Martin, ed. Ägypten in spätantik-christlicher Zeit. Einführung in die koptische Kultur. Wiesbaden: L. Riechert, 1998.
Lemm, Oscar von, “Koptische apokryphe Apostelacten.” Bulletin de l’Academie imperiale des sciences de St. Petersburg 1 (1890): 509-57.w227
Schenkel, Wolfgang. Kultmythos und Märtyrerlegende: Zur Kontinuität des ägyptischen Denkens. Göttinger Orientforschungen 4.5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1977.
Trevijano, R. “The Early Christian Church of Alexandria.” In Studia Patristica 12:471-77. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 115. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1973.
Wüstenfeld, H. F. Al-Sinaksari; Synaxarium das ist Heiligen-Kalender der Coptischen Christen aus dem Arabischen Übersetzung. Gotha, Germany: n.p., 1879.
Zahn, Theodor. Athanasius und der Bibelkanon. 1901. Reprint, Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2010.