A short booklist
The following are useful studies of the creeds and some of their themes:
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Credo: Meditations on the Apostles’ Creed. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000.
Roger van Harn, ed., Exploring and Proclaiming the Apostles’ Creed. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004.
Luke Timothy Johnson, The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why It Matters. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
J. N. D. Kelly, Early Christian Creeds, 3rd edn. New York: Continuum, 2006.
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity. London: Collins, 2002.
Henri de Lubac, The Christian Faith: An Essay on the Structure of the Apostles’ Creed. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1986.
Alister E. McGrath, Heresy: A History of Defending the Truth. London: SPCK, 2009.
Oliver C. Quick, Doctrines of the Creed: Their Basis in Scripture and Their Meaning Today. London: Nisbet, 1938.
Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos? London: Methuen, 1947.
J. S. Whale, Christian Doctrine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1941.
Rowan Williams, Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2007.
Tom Wright, Simply Christian. London: SPCK, 2006.
Frances Young, The Making of the Creeds. London: SCM Press, 2002.
If you would like to begin studying Christian theology as a way of taking the themes of this series further, you might like to try these introductions, both of which can be used without the need for a teacher:
Alister E. McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction, 5th edn. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Alister E. McGrath, The Christian Theology Reader, 4th edn. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.