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Bates, M. W., The Birth of the Trinity: Jesus, God, and Spirit in New Testament & Early Christian Interpretations of the Old Testament (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)

Burns, J. Patout, Jr. and Robin M. Jensen, Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2014)

Paget, James Carleton and Lieu, Judith (editors), Christianity in the Second Century: Themes and Developments (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

  Ehrman, Bart D., The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018)

Ellingsen, Mark, African Christian Mothers and Fathers: Why They Matter for the Church (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2015)

Harrison C, The Art of Listening in the Early Church Oxford (Oxford University Press 2013)

Hartog, P. A. Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christian Contexts: Reconsidering the Bauer Thesis (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2015)

Hylen, Susan E. A Modest Apostle: Thecla and the History of Women in the Early Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)

Markshies, Christoph, Christian Theology and Its Institutions in the Early Roman Empire: Prolegomena to a History of Early Christian Theology. Translated by Wayne Coppins. (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2015)

Nicklas, T., Jews and Christians?: Second-Century 'Christian' Perspectives on the 'Parting of the Ways'  (Annual Deichmann Lectures, 2013; Mohr Siebeck, 2014)

Sheridan, M., Language for God in Patristic Tradition: Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2015)

Smith, G. S., Guilt by Association: Heresy Catalogues in Early Christianity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)

Tabbernee, W., (ed.), Early Christianity in Contexts: An Exploration across Cultures and Continents (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2014)

  Vinzent, Markus, Resetting the Origins of Christianity: A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Wilhite, David E, The Gospel According to Heretics: Discovering Orthodoxy through Early Christological Conflicts (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2015)