Christian Literature

Christian literature is the literary aspect of Christian media, and it constitutes a huge body of extremely varied writing.

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Encompasses sacred, theological, devotional, mystical, poetic, and narrative works produced within Christian contexts, ranging from the New Testament and Church Fathers to modern spiritual writings and fiction.

• Bible

  • Old Testament

  • New Testament

• Deuterocanonical books

• Biblical apocrypha

• Christian apocrypha

  • Gospel of Thomas

  • Gospel of Mary

  • Infancy Gospel of James

  • Acts of Paul and Thecla

• Pseudepigrapha

• Nag Hammadi library

• Church Fathers

  • Apostolic Fathers

  • Greek Fathers

  • Latin Fathers

• Ante-Nicene Fathers

• Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers

• Letters of Ignatius

• First Epistle of Clement

• Against Heresies (Irenaeus)

• Confessions (Augustine)

• City of God

• Scholastic writings

  • Summa Theologiae

  • Sentences (Peter Lombard)

• Mystical writings

  • The Cloud of Unknowing

  • Revelations of Divine Love

  • The Interior Castle

  • Dark Night of the Soul

• Hagiographies

  • Golden Legend

• Rule of St. Benedict

• Monastic writings

• Liturgical texts

  • Book of Hours

  • Breviary

  • Missal

• Ninety-five Theses

• Institutes of the Christian Religion

• Book of Common Prayer

• Thirty-Nine Articles

• Heidelberg Catechism

• Westminster Confession of Faith

• Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

• Pilgrim’s Progress

• Spiritual Exercises (Ignatius of Loyola)

• Letters of Martin Luther

• Sermons of John Wesley

• Mere Christianity

• The Cost of Discipleship

• Orthodoxy (book)

• The Imitation of Christ

• The Pursuit of God (A. W. Tozer)

• The Problem of Pain

• The Screwtape Letters

• Markings (Dag Hammarskjöld)

• The Seven Storey Mountain

• George Herbert

• John Donne

• Gerard Manley Hopkins

• T. S. Eliot and Christianity

• Dante Alighieri

  • Divine Comedy

• Paradise Lost – John Milton

• Hymnody

  • Christian hymns

  • Isaac Watts

  • Charles Wesley

• Chronicles of Narnia

• The Pilgrim’s Progress

• In His Steps

• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

• The Shack

• Left Behind series

• Flannery O’Connor and Christian themes

• J. R. R. Tolkien and Christianity

• Medieval mystery plays

• Passion plays

• Morality plays

• Everyman (play)

• Liturgical drama

• Modern Christian theater

• Daily devotional

• Christian devotional literature

• My Utmost for His Highest

• Streams in the Desert

• The Practice of the Presence of God

• Theologia Germanica

• On the Incarnation (Athanasius)

• The Ascent of Mount Carmel

• Interior Castle

• Letters of Spiritual Counsel

• The Spiritual Canticle

• Christian publishing

• Christian bookshops

• Bible societies

• Tract distribution

• Gideons International

• Evangelical literature movements

• Digital Christian literature and apps