Research Guides: Church History: One Volume Dictionaries

One-Volume Dictionaries

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.
4th edition, eited by Andrew Louth.
Oxford University Press, 2022.
For print version locations, see the UofT Library Catalogue.
Uniquely authoritative and wide-ranging in its scope and an indispensable reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church. It contains over 6,000 A-Z entries, and offers unrivalled coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject, from theology; churches and denominations; patristic scholarship; and the bible; to the church calendar and its organization; popes; archbishops; saints; and mystics.
The New SCM Dictionary of Church History.
Edited by Robert Benedetto.
SCM Press, 2008.
Also published under the title The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, this work is very comparable to the Oxford Dictionary (above). Only volume 1 (early church to 1700) has been published so far.