Ecclesiology

 

Recommended Books

**Note: I don't necessarily agree with every claim or point made by each of these authors.

• Bunson, Matthew. The Pope Encyclopedia: An A to Z of the Holy See. Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1995.
• Butler, B. C. The Church & Infallibility. Sheed & Ward, 1954.
• Chapman, John. Studies on the Early Papacy. Kennikat Press, 1971.
• Chapman, John. The First Eight General Councils & Infallibility. Catholic Truth Society, 1906.
• Duffy, Eamon. Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes. Yale University Press, 2006.
• Fortescue, Adrian. The Early Papacy to the Synod of Chalcedon in 451. Ignatius Press, 2008.
• Heschmeyer, Joe. Pope Peter: Defending The Church's Most Distinctive Doctrine. Catholic Answers Press, 2020.
• Jaki, Stanley L. And on This Rock: The Witness of One Land and Two Covenants. Christendom Press, 1997.
• Jaki, Stanley L. The Keys of the Kingdom: A Tool's Witness to Truth. Franciscan Herald Press, 1986.
• Maxwell-Stuart, P. G. Chronicle of the Popes: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Papacy over 2000 Years. Thames & Hudson, 1997.
• Meyendorff, John. The Primacy of Peter: Essays in Ecclesiology and the Early Church. St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1992. 
• Miller, J. Michael. The Shepherd and the Rock: Origins, Development, and Mission of the Papacy. Our Sunday Visitor, 1995.
• Rivington, Luke. The Primitive Church and the See of Peter. Longmans, Green and Co., 1894.
• Soloviev, Vladimir. The Russian Church and the Papacy. Catholic Answers, 2001.
• Sullivan, Frances A. The Church We Believe In: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Paulist Press, 1988.
• Ybarra, Erick. The Papacy: Revisiting the Debate Between Catholics and Orthodox. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2022.