Enduring books of the church, arranged by era. Full texts are hosted only where the work is in the public domain; for works still in copyright the library offers a UECF study companion and the book’s details.
Augustine and other early Christian writers.
Read The Confessions of Saint Augustine online at UECF.NET. Explore Augustine's classic Christian autobiography — the public-domain Pusey translation — in a convenient, searchable Web Book format.
Read The City of God by Saint Augustine online for free at UECF.NET. Explore Augustine's classic Christian work on the City of God, history, theology, human society, and the Christian faith.
Luther and the Reformation.
Martin Luther's treatise on church councils and the marks of the true church (Luther's Works).
An 1844 English translation of Calvin's One Hundred Aphorisms — a summary of the Institutes — and his dedicatory letter to King Francis I of France defending the Reformed faith.
An illustrated nineteenth-century life of John Calvin — his youth in France, conversion, the Institutes, his work in Geneva and the influence of the Reformation he led.
A short illustrated introduction to John Calvin for students: his youth in France, conversion, work in Geneva, teaching on the Word of God, theology and legacy, with a chronology, notes and glossary.
Karl Barth's 1922 Göttingen lectures on Calvin's theology — the Reformation and the Middle Ages, Calvin in relation to Luther and Zwingli, and the development of Calvin's thought — translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley.
Essays on Luther's life, thought, and legacy.
Luther's Ninety-five Theses on indulgences — English and Latin text.
Read The Legacy of Luther online at UECF.NET. Edited by R.C. Sproul and Stephen J. Nichols, this Reformation Trust volume surveys Martin Luther’s life, thought, and legacy, including the Ninety-Five Theses.
Lutheran Missionaries, Landmarks and Legacies by Syam S. Pilli — the story of the American Lutheran Mission from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Guntur, Andhra Pradesh (1842 onward): Father J. C. F. Heyer, Walter Gunn, L. B. Wolf, John Roy Strock, Anna Kugler and John Aberly, and the landmarks they left — Andhra Christian College, Heyer Hall, Gunn Bungalow, Wolf Hall, Strock Hall, Sylvanus Stall Girls High School, St. Matthew’s West Parish Church, Kugler Hospital and Aberly Pet. A free, searchable UECF.NET web book.
Bunyan, Edwards, Matthew Henry and the Puritan tradition.
Read the complete Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume One online at UECF.NET: Sereno Dwight's Memoir of Edwards, his Farewell Sermon and Appendix, and twelve of Edwards's major treatises — Freedom of the Will, Religious Affections, Original Sin, History of Redemption and more — in English, with a full Telugu translation of the Memoir.
The complete public-domain text of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume Two — sermons including Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and A Divine and Supernatural Light, the Life and Diary of David Brainerd, Miscellaneous Observations, Notes on the Bible, Remarks on Theological Controversies, and Seventeen Occasional Sermons — free to read online at UECF.NET.
Finney, Moody, Spurgeon, Edwards and revival literature.
Jonathan Edwards's life of David Brainerd (1718–1747), missionary to the Native Americans of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, built largely from Brainerd's own diary and journal — with his letters, remains and Edwards's reflections.
J. C. Ryle's portraits of the eleven evangelical ministers God used to revive Christianity in eighteenth-century England — Whitefield, Wesley, Grimshaw, Romaine, Rowlands, Berridge, Venn, Walker, Hervey, Toplady and Fletcher — with their lives, preaching and character.
Read Book information, synopsis, table of contents and author profile for God's Generals: The Revivalists by Roberts Liardon online at UECF.NET. Explore the lives, ministries, faith, and revival movements of influential Christian revivalists.
Read the complete Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume One online at UECF.NET: Sereno Dwight's Memoir of Edwards, his Farewell Sermon and Appendix, and twelve of Edwards's major treatises — Freedom of the Will, Religious Affections, Original Sin, History of Redemption and more — in English, with a full Telugu translation of the Memoir.
The complete public-domain text of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume Two — sermons including Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and A Divine and Supernatural Light, the Life and Diary of David Brainerd, Miscellaneous Observations, Notes on the Bible, Remarks on Theological Controversies, and Seventeen Occasional Sermons — free to read online at UECF.NET.
Read The Way to God and How to Find It by D. L. Moody online at UECF.NET Christian Book Library.
Read The Life of John Wesley by John Telford online at UECF.NET — a public-domain biography of the founder of Methodism, from his Epworth childhood and Oxford Methodism to the Great Awakening, his itinerant ministry and death in 1791, part of the UECF.NET Christian Books Library.
Read The Life of Charles G. Finney by A. M. Hills online at the UECF.NET Christian Book Library. A. M. Hills's 1902 biography of the American revivalist Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875) — his conversion, his early revival campaigns across New York State, the New Lebanon Convention, his years at Oberlin College, his visits to England and Scotland, and his own writing on preaching, Freemasonry and sanctification. Free English and Telugu Web Book.
Charles G. Finney's classic 1868 lectures on revival — Lectures on Revivals of Religion — a practical guide to promoting genuine revival in the church and among sinners. A UECF.NET Web Book.
Thomas à Kempis, Brother Lawrence, Andrew Murray and others.
