| Preface | | xi | |
| How to Use This Work | | xvi | |
| The Structure of the Work | | xviii | |
| Part I The Patristic Period, ca. 100--600 | |
| | 3 | (10) |
| Clement of Rome (active around 96) |
| | 13 | (4) |
| The First Letter to Corinth |
| | 14 | (3) |
| Ignatius of Antioch (died ca. 107) |
| | 17 | (4) |
| | 17 | (4) |
| The Martyrdom of Polycarp (ca. 155) |
| | 21 | (9) |
| Irenaeus of Lyons (ca. 130--ca. 200) |
| | 30 | (13) |
| | 31 | (12) |
| Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullian (ca. 160--ca. 225) |
| | 43 | (9) |
| | 44 | (8) |
| Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260--ca. 340) |
| | 52 | (11) |
| | 52 | (11) |
| Athanasius of Alexandria (ca. 296--373) |
| | 63 | (12) |
| | 64 | (5) |
| | 69 | (6) |
| Ephraim the Syrian (303--373) |
| | 75 | (6) |
| | 76 | (5) |
| Cyril of Jerusalem (ca. 315--387) |
| | 81 | (7) |
| The Catechetical Lectures |
| | 82 | (6) |
| Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 330--ca. 395) |
| | 88 | (8) |
| Funeral Oration on Meletius |
| | 89 | (7) |
| The Peregrination of Egeria (ca. 384) |
| | 96 | (9) |
| Augustine of Hippo (354--430) |
| | 105 | (10) |
| | 106 | (9) |
| Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (ca. 530--ca. 610) |
| | 115 | (11) |
| | 116 | (5) |
| Part II English and Irish Sources, ca. 600--1050 | |
| | 121 | (5) |
| | 126 | (2) |
| | 128 | (6) |
| History of the English Church and Nation |
| | 129 | (4) |
| | 133 | (1) |
| | 134 | (3) |
| The Dream of the Rood (ca. 750) |
| | 137 | (5) |
| The Junius Codex (ca. 870) |
| | 142 | (9) |
| | 143 | (4) |
| | 147 | (4) |
| | 151 | (4) |
| | 151 | (1) |
| | 152 | (3) |
| The Blickling Homilist (ca. 970) |
| | 155 | (6) |
| | 155 | (6) |
| Ælfric (ca. 955--ca. 1020) |
| | 161 | (6) |
| | 161 | (6) |
| | 167 | (14) |
| | 168 | (7) |
| Part III The Middle Ages, 1050--1500 | |
| | 175 | (6) |
| Anselm of Canterbury (1033--1109) |
| | 181 | (5) |
| | 182 | (4) |
| Peter Abelard (1079--1142) |
| | 186 | (8) |
| The History of Calamities |
| | 187 | (7) |
| Bernard of Clairvaux (1090--1153) |
| | 194 | (4) |
| | 195 | (3) |
| Francis of Assisi (1182--1226) |
| | 198 | (3) |
| The Canticle of the Creatures |
| | 199 | (2) |
| | 201 | (6) |
| Thomas Aquinas (1224--1274) |
| | 207 | (3) |
| | 208 | (2) |
| | 210 | (2) |
| | 210 | (2) |
| Dante Alighieri (1265--1321) |
| | 212 | (6) |
| | 214 | (4) |
| Ludolf of Saxony (ca. 1300--1378) |
| | 218 | (3) |
| | 219 | (2) |
| The Cloud of Unknowing (ca. 1350) |
| | 221 | (8) |
| William Langland (ca. 1332--ca. 1400) |
| | 229 | (11) |
| | 230 | (10) |
| Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1342--1400) |
| | 240 | (6) |
| | 241 | (5) |
| Julian of Norwich (ca. 1342--after 1416) |
| | 246 | (6) |
| Revelations of Divine Love |
| | 247 | (5) |
| The York Mystery Plays (ca. 1415) |
| | 252 | (11) |
| Thomas a Kempis (1379--1471) |
| | 263 | (6) |
| | 264 | (5) |
| William Dunbar (ca. 1460--ca. 1520) |
| | 269 | (18) |
| | 270 | (5) |
| Part IV The Renaissance and Reformation, 1500--1700 | |
| | 275 | (12) |
| Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469?--1536) |
| | 287 | (12) |
| | 289 | (10) |
| Martin Luther (1483--1546) |
| | 299 | (23) |
| Letter on Translating the New Testament |
| | 303 | (10) |
| The ``Little Instruction Book'' or ``Lesser Catechism'' |
| | 313 | (9) |
| Ignatius Loyola (ca. 1491--1556) |
| | 322 | (4) |
| | 323 | (3) |
| | 326 | (8) |
| Institutes of the Christian Religion |
| | 328 | (6) |
| | 334 | (11) |
| The Acts and Monuments of Matters Happening in the Church |
| | 336 | (9) |
| Edmund Spenser (1552--1599) |
| | 345 | (11) |
| The Hymn of Heavenly Beauty |
| | 346 | (10) |
| The King James Version of the Bible (1611) |
| | 356 | (25) |
| | 358 | (18) |
| | 376 | (5) |
| Sir Walter Ralegh (ca. 1552--1618) |
| | 381 | (3) |
| The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage |
| | 382 | (2) |
| Lancelot Andrewes (1555--1626) |
| | 384 | (12) |
| | 385 | (11) |
| William Shakespeare (1564--1616) |
| | 396 | (4) |
| | 398 | (2) |
| John Donne (1571/2--1631) |
| | 400 | (20) |
| | 401 | (15) |
| | 416 | (4) |
| George Herbert (1593--1633) |
| | 420 | (10) |
| | 421 | (6) |
| | 427 | (3) |
| Sir Thomas Browne (1605--1682) |
| | 430 | (6) |
| | 431 | (5) |
| | 436 | (6) |
| | 437 | (5) |
| Jeremy Taylor (1613--1667) |
| | 442 | (6) |
| The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying |
| | 443 | (5) |
| Henry Vaughan (1622--1695) |
| | 448 | (5) |
| | 448 | (2) |
| | 450 | (3) |
| Andrew Marvell (1621--1678) |
| | 453 | (6) |
| | 454 | (2) |
| | 456 | (3) |
| Blaise Pascal (1623--1662) |
| | 459 | (8) |
| | 461 | (6) |
| | 467 | (3) |
| The Book of Common Prayer (1662) |
| | 470 | (17) |
| The ``General Confession'' |
| | 472 | (1) |
| The ``General Thanksgiving'' |
| | 472 | (1) |
| The Solemnization of Matrimony |
| | 473 | (3) |
| At the Burial of the Dead |
| | 476 | (5) |
| Part V The Modern Period, 1700--2000 | |
| | 481 | (6) |
| Daniel Defoe (1660--1731) |
| | 487 | (9) |
| Joseph Addison (1672--1719) |
| | 496 | (3) |
| | 497 | (1) |
| | 498 | (1) |
| | 499 | (2) |
| When I Survey The Wondrous Cross |
| | 499 | (2) |
| Joseph Butler (1692--1752) |
| | 501 | (6) |
| Jonathan Edwards (1703--1758) |
| | 507 | (9) |
| Treatise Concerning Religious Affections |
| | 508 | (2) |
| | 510 | (6) |
| | 516 | (11) |
| ``Preface'' to Sermons On Several Occasions |
| | 517 | (3) |
| Sermon 2: The Almost Christian |
| | 520 | (7) |
| Charles Wesley (1707--1788) |
| | 527 | (5) |
| | 528 | (1) |
| | 529 | (3) |
| | 532 | (7) |
| | 533 | (6) |
| William Paley (1743--1805) |
| | 539 | (7) |
| A View of the Evidences of Christianity |
| | 540 | (6) |
| William Blake (1757--1827) |
| | 546 | (4) |
| ``And did those feet?'' from ``Milton'' |
| | 547 | (3) |
| William Wordsworth (1770--1850) |
| | 550 | (13) |
| | 551 | (6) |
| Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood |
| | 557 | (6) |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1791--1834) |
| | 563 | (7) |
| | 565 | (2) |
| Confessions of an Enquiring Spirit |
| | 567 | (3) |
| | 570 | (10) |
| | 571 | (9) |
| John Henry Newman (1801--1890) |
| | 580 | (5) |
| | 582 | (3) |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882) |
| | 585 | (6) |
| | 586 | (5) |
| Anthony Trollope (1815--1882) |
| | 591 | (7) |
| | 593 | (5) |
| Benjamin Jowett (1817--1893) |
| | 598 | (11) |
| The Interpretation of Scripture |
| | 599 | (10) |
| George Eliot (1819--1880) |
| | 609 | (11) |
| | 610 | (10) |
| Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821--1881) |
| | 620 | (16) |
| | 621 | (15) |
| Matthew Arnold (1822--1888) |
| | 636 | (4) |
| | 637 | (3) |
| George MacDonald (1824--1905) |
| | 640 | (8) |
| | 641 | (7) |
| Thomas Hardy (1840--1928) |
| | 648 | (8) |
| | 649 | (7) |
| Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844--1889) |
| | 656 | (3) |
| | 657 | (2) |
| | 659 | (20) |
| The Ballad of Reading Gaol |
| | 661 | (18) |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874--1936) |
| | 679 | (9) |
| | 680 | (4) |
| | 684 | (4) |
| | 688 | (7) |
| | 689 | (3) |
| | 692 | (3) |
| Dorothy L. Sayers (1893--1957) |
| | 695 | (12) |
| | 696 | (6) |
| | 702 | (5) |
| | 707 | (11) |
| | 709 | (4) |
| | 713 | (5) |
| Graham Greene (1904--1991) |
| | 718 | (10) |
| | 719 | (9) |
| | 728 | (5) |
| | 729 | (1) |
| | 730 | (3) |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929--1968) |
| | 733 | (6) |
| | 735 | (4) |
| | 739 | (8) |
| | 739 | (8) |
| Garrison Keillor (1942--) |
| | 747 | (6) |
| | 748 | (5) |
| A Glossary of Terms | | 753 | (8) |
| Sources of Extracts | | 761 | (8) |
| For Further Reading | | 769 | (2) |
| Acknowledgments | | 771 | (3) |
| Index | | 774 | |
