Selected Bibliography

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Amis, Robin. A Different Christianity: Early Christian Esotericism and Modern Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Angus, Samuel. The Mystery-Religions. New York: Dover Publications, 1975.

Arnold, Eberhard. The Early Christians After the Death of the Apostles. Rifton, NY: Plough Publishing House, 1970.

Backman, E. Louis. Religious Dances in the Christian Church and in Popular Medicine. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977.

Barclay, John, and John Sweet, eds. Early Christian Thought in its Jewish Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Barker, James L. The Divine Church, 3 vols. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1951.

Barker, Margaret. The Great Angel: A Study of Israel's Second God. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.

Barnstone, Willis, ed. The Other Bible. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984.

Beisner, E. Calvin. God in Three Persons. Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, 1978.

Bercot, David W. Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up: A New Look at Today's Evangelical Church in the Light of Early Christianity. Henderson, TX: Scroll Publishing Co., 1989.

________. Common Sense: A New Approach to Understanding Scripture. Tyler, TX: Scroll Publishing Co., 1992.

________. What the Early Christians Believed, audio tape set. Tyler, TX: Scroll Publishing Co., 1994.

Bettenson, Henry. The Early Christian Fathers. London: Oxford University Press, 1956.

________. The Later Christian Fathers. London: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Blumenthal, H.J., and Robert A. Markus, eds. Neoplatonism and Early Christian Thought. London: Variorum Publications Ltd., 1981.

Bowman, Robert M., Jr. "'Ye Are Gods?' Orthodox and Heretical Views on the Deification of Man." Christian Research Journal (Winter/Spring 1987): 18ff.

Brantl, George. Catholicism. New York: George Braziller, 1962.

Brough, R. Clayton. Teachings of the Prophets. Bountiful, UT: Horizon Publishers, 1993.

Buckley, J.J. "A Cult Mystery in the Gospel of Philip." Journal of Biblical Literature 99 (1980): 569-581.

Budge, E.A. Wallace. Coptic Homilies. London, Longmans and Co., 1910.

________. Coptic Apocrypha. London: Longmans and Co., 1913.

Campbell, Joseph, ed. The Mysteries, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1955.

Cartwright, Richard. Philosophical Essays. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1987.

Chadwick, Henry. Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Charlesworth, James H., ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1983.

Clark, Elizabeth A. The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian Debate. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis 1-3, FC 85. Translated by J. Ferguson. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1991.

Cohn, Norman, Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Colson, F.H., and G.H. Whitaker, tr. Philo, 10 vols. and 3 supplementary vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1934.

Crowther, Duane S. Life Everlasting. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1967.

Cullman, Oscar. The Christology of the New Testament. Translated by Shirley C. Guthrie, and Charles A.M. Hall. Philadelphia, 1959.

Cyril of Alexandria. Letters 1-50, FC 76. Translated by John I. McEnerney. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1987.

Cyril of Jerusalem. The Works of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, vol. 2. FC 64. Translated by Leo P. McCauley, and Anthony A. Stephenson. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1970.

Daniélou, Jean. The Lord of History: Reflections on the Inner Meaning of History. Translated by N. Abercrombie. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1958.

________. The Theology of Jewish Christianity. Translated by John A. Baker. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1964.

________. Gospel Message and Hellenistic Culture. Translated by John A. Baker. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1973.

Davies, John G. The Early Christian Church. New York: Anchor Books, 1965.

Decker, Ed, and Dave Hunt. The God Makers. Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1984.

DeMaris, R.E. "Corinthian Religion and Baptism for the Dead (1 Corinthians 15:29): Insights from Archaeology and Anthropology." Journal of Biblical Literature 114 (1995): 661-682.

Doresse, Jean. The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics. London: Hollis and Carter, 1960,

Draper, Richard D. Opening the Seven Seals: The Visions of John the Revelator. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1991.

Drower, E.S. The Secret Adam. London: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Dudley, Martin, and Geoffrey Rowell, eds. The Oil of Gladness: Anointing in the Christian Tradition. London: SPCK, 1993.

Dunn, James D.G. The Partings of the Ways: Between Christianity and Judaism and their Significance for the Character of Christianity. London: SCM Press, 1991.

Ehrman, Bart D. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Eissfeldt, Otto. "El and Yahweh." Journal of Semitic Studies 1 (1956): 25-30.

Eliade, Mircea., and Ioan P. Couliano. The Eliade Guide to World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1991.

Elliot, J.H. The Elect and the Holy: An Exegetical Examination of I Peter 2:4-10 and the Phrase "Basileion hierateuma". Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1966.

Eusebius. The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine. Translated by G.A. Williamson. New York: Penguin Books, 1965.

________. Preparation for the Gospel. Translated by E.H. Gifford. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1903.

________. The Proof of the Gospel, 2 vols. Translated by W.J. Ferrar. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920.

Fergusen, Everett, ed. Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, New York: Garland Publishing, 1990.

Fergusen, Sinclair B., David F. Wright, and J.I. Packer, eds. New Dictionary of Theology. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1988.

Foschini, Bernard M. "'Those Who Are Baptized for the Dead' 1 Cor. 15:29." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 13 (1951): 46-78, 172-198, 276-283.

Freemantle, Anne. The Age of Belief. New York: Penguin Books, 1982.

Gilson, Etienne. Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages. New York: Scribner's, 1938.

Goldstein, Jonathan. "The Origins of the Doctrine of Creation Ex Nihilo." Journal of Jewish Studies 35 (1984): 127-135.

________. "Creation Ex Nihilo: Recantations and Restatements." Journal of Jewish Studies 38 (1987): 187-194.

Goodenough, Erwin R. Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, 13 vols. New York: Bollingen/Pantheon, 1953-1958.

Grant, Robert M. Second Century Christianity, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1946.

________. After the New Testament. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1967.

________, ed. The Apostolic Fathers, 6 vols. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1964-1968.

Green, R.L. C.S. Lewis. London: The Bodley Head, 1963.

Griffith, Michael T. Signs of the True Church of Christ. Bountiful, UT: Horizon Publishers & Distributors, 1989.

________. One Lord, One Faith: Writings of the Early Christian Fathers as Evidences of the Restoration. Bountiful, UT: Horizon Publishers & Distributors, 1996.

Guillaumont, Antoine, H.-Ch. Puech, G. Quispel, W. Till, and Y. A. Al Masih. The Gospel According to Thomas. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959.

Gunther, John J. St. Paul's Opponents and Their Background. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1973.

Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1965.

Hammerton-Kelly, Robert G. Pre-Existence, Wisdom, and the Son of Man. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.

Hanson, R.P.C. Tradition in the Early Church. London: SCM Press, 1962.

Harnack, Adolf von. What is Christianity?. Translated by Thomas B. Saunders. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1957.

________. History of Dogma, 7 vols. Translated by Neil Buchanan. New York: Dover, 1961.

Haroldson, E. "Good and Evil Spoken of." Ensign 25 (August 1995): 8-11.

Harvey, V.A. A Handbook of Theological Terms. New York: Macmillan, 1964.

Hatch, Edwin. The Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church. London: Williams and Norgate, 1914.

Hayman, Peter. "Monotheism--A Misused Word in Jewish Studies?" Journal of Jewish Studies 42 (1991): 1-15.

Heckethorn, Charles W. The Secret Societies of all Ages and Countries, 2 vols. New Hyde Park, New York: University Books, 1965.

Hippolytus. The Apostolic Tradition. Edited by Gregory Dix, and Henry Chadwick. Ridgefield, CT: Morehouse Publishing, 1991.

Hooke, Samuel H., ed. Myth and Ritual. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1933.

________, ed. Myth, Ritual, and Kingship. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958.

Hopkins, Richard R. How Greek Philosophy Corrupted the Christian Concept of God. Bountiful, UT: Horizon Publishers & Distributors, Inc., 1998.

Hunter, David G. Marriage in the Early Church, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.

Hurtado, Larry W. "What Do We Mean by 'First-Century Jewish Monotheism'?" In E.H. Lovering, Jr., ed. Society of Biblical Literature 1993 Seminar Papers. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993, 348-368.

Irenaeus. Proof of the Apostolic Preaching, ACW 16. Translated by Joseph P. Smith. Westminster, MD: Newman Press, 1953.

Jackson, Kent P. From Apostasy to Restoration. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1996.

James, Montague R. The Apocryphal New Testament. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.

Jantzen, Grace. God's World, God's Body. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1984.

Jaspers, Karl. The Great Philosophers, 4 vols. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1981.

Jeremias, Joachim. The Eucharistic Words of Jesus. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1966.

Jerome. The Homilies of Saint Jerome, vol. 1, FC 48. Translated by M.L. Ewald. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1964.

Jonas, Hans. The Gnostic Religion. Boston: Beacon Press, 1963.

Jurgens, William A. The Faith of the Early Fathers. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1970.

Kelly, J.N.D. Early Christian Doctrines, Revised ed. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1978.

Klimkeit, Hans-Joachim. Gnosis on the Silk Road. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1993.

Krauth, Charles P. The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1963.

Lake, Kirsopp. The Apostolic Fathers, 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1912-13.

Lash, Nicholas, and Joseph Rhymer, eds. The Christian Priesthood. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1970.

Le Guillou, M.J. The Spirit of Eastern Orthodoxy. Translated by Donald Attwater. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1962.

Leith, John H. Creeds of the Churches--A Reader in Christian Doctrine From the Bible to the Present. New York: Anchor Books, 1963.

Lewis, C.S. Mere Christianity. New York: Macmillan Company, 1952.

The Lost Books of the Bible. New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1979.

Lortz-Kaiser, History of the Church, translated from the German, 2nd ed. Milwaukee, 1939.

Ludlow, Daniel H., ed. Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Lundquist, John M., Steven D. Ricks, eds. By Study and Also by Faith, vol. 1. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and F.A.R.M.S., 1990.

Luther, Martin. The Bondage of the Will. Translated by Henry Cole. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1976.

Lyman, J. Rebecca. Christology and Cosmology: Models of Divine Activity in Origen, Eusebius, and Athanasius. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Madsen, Truman G., ed. Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo Christian Parallels. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.

Markus, Robert A. The End of Ancient Christianity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Marriott, Wharton B. Vestiarum Christianum, the Origin and Gradual Development of the Dress of Holy Ministry in the Church. London: Rivingtons, 1868.

McConkie, Bruce R. Mormon Doctrine, 2nd Ed. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966.

McCormack, Arthur. Christian Initiation. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1969.

Metzger, Bruce M. Historical and Literary Studies: Pagan, Jewish, and Christian. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1968.

Metzger, Bruce M., and Michael D. Coogan, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Miller, John H. Fundamentals of the Liturgy. Notre Dame, Ind.: Fides Publishers Association, 1959.

Moffatt, James. The Moffatt New Testament: Parallel Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1922.

Mosheim, Johann L. Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity, 2 vols. New York: S. Converse, 1854.

"The Mormon Church: A Restoration of All Things?" Awake! (November 8, 1995): 19-25.

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Müeller, Ernst. A History of Jewish Mysticism. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1995.

Mullen, E. Theodore. The Assembly of the Gods: The Divine Council in Canaanite and Early Hebrew Literature. Chicago: Scholars Press, 1980.

Murray, Gilbert. Five Stages of Greek Religion. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1955.

The New English Bible With the Apocrypha. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Nibley, Hugh W. Mormonism and Early Christianity. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and F.A.R.M.S., 1987.

________. The World and the Prophets. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and F.A.R.M.S., 1987.

________. Temple and Cosmos. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and F.A.R.M.S., 1992, p. 64.

The NIV Study Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1985.

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Origen. Prayer; Exhortation to Martyrdom, ACW 19. Translated by John J. O'Meara. New York: Newman Press, 1954.

Origen. Homilies on Genesis and Exodus, FC 71. Translated by Ronald E. Heine. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1982.

Origen. Homilies on Leviticus, FC 83. Translated by Gary W. Barkley. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1990.

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________, ed. Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976.

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