Bibliography of Roderick C. Meredth's Plain Truth About the Protestant Reformation

Over the last few issues of LCG's recruitment magazine, Tomorrow's World, they have reprinted a narrative that the late Roderick C. Meredith wrote back in 1958.entitled The Plain Truth About the Protestant Reformation. The purpose of the narrative was to discredit the founding of the Protestant churches as illegitimate in order to make joining his own organization seem like the righteous thing to do.

What follows below is a list of the books he cited in this narrative. It should be noted that even taking into account that it was written in 1958 he instinctively referred to older books, many of which date before the start of the 20th Century.

One wonder why did he choose to get his information from such old works? Did nothing made by more recent historians at least made him curious to learn about what they were saying?

• Alzog, Johannes. Manual of Universal Church History. 1878.

• Bainton, Roland. Here I Stand. 1950.

• Bainton, Roland. The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. 1940.

• Bebington, John Albert. The Reformation. 1901.

• D'Aubigné, Jean-Henri Merle. History of the Great Reformation. 1843-1853.

• Deharbe, Joseph. A History of Religion. 1881.

• Fisher, George. History of the Christian Church. 1887.

• Fisher, George. The Reformation. 1873.

• Gibbon, William. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776-1789.

• Hastie, William. The Theology of the Reformed Church. 1904.

• Hausser, Ludwig. The Period of the Reformation. 1873.

• Hislop, Alexander. The Two Babylons. 1853, 1858.

• Hurlburt, Jesse Lyman. The Story of the Christian Church. 1918.

• Jones, Rufus. The Church's Debt to Heretics. 1924.

• Kurtz, Johann Heinreich. Church History. 1889.

• Lindsay, T. M. A History of the Reformation. 1906-7.

• Michelet, Jules. The Life of Luther. 1846.

• MacKinnon, James. Calvin and the Reformation. 1936.

• Moncrief, John Wildman. A Short History of the Christian Church. 1908.

• Moore, Audrey Lackington. The History of the Reformation. 1890.

• Mosheim. Johann Lorenz von.  Institutes of Ecclesiastical History.

• Neander, August (1789-1850). General History of the Christian Religion.

• Perrin, Jean Paul. History of the Old Waldenses. 1884.

• Plummer, Alfred. The Continental Reformation. 1912.

• Qualben, Lars P. A History of the Christian Church. 1936.

• Schaff, Philip. History of the Christian Church. 1858.

• Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, third edition, 1908-1914. Named after Johann Jakob Herzog (1805-1882) and Philip Schaff (1819-1883).

• Vedder, Henry C. A Short History of the Baptists. 1907.

• Walker, Reginald F. An Outline History of the Catholic Church. 1944.

• Walker, Williston. A History of the Christian Church. 1918. [Link omitted due to quality issue with at least one previously offered source.]

• Wharey, James. Sketches of Church History. 1840.