A list of sources for research and commentary on The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. For some, I have included links to PDF versions of the full text (active at 10 June 2023). If you know of useful additions to the list, please let me know.
Atherstone, Andrew, “The incoherence of the Anglican communion,” Churchman 118 (3), 2004, 235-255.
Baker, William, A Plain Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles (London: Rivingtons, 1883). PDF
Barry, Alfred, The Teacher’s Prayer Book (16th edition; London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1901).
Beaven, James, A Catechism on the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1850). PDF
Beveridge, William, An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (London: James Duncan, 1830). PDF
Bicknell, E. J., A Theological Introduction to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (revised edition; London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1939).
Boultbee, Thomas Pownall, A Commentary on the Thirty-Nine Articles: Forming an Introduction to the Theology of the Church of England (7th edition; London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1884). PDF
Bowring, E. G., The Thirty-nine Articles: The Bulwark of the Church of England (London: Church Association, 1932).
Bray, Gerald, Anglicanism: A Reformed Catholic Tradition (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2021).
Bray, Gerald, The Faith We Confess: An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles (London: Latimer Trust, 2009).
Bridge, G. Richmond (ed.), The Thirty-nine Articles (Charlottetown, PEI: St Peter Publications, 1989). PDF (part)
Bromiley, Geoffrey W., “The purpose and function of the Thirty-nine Articles,” Churchman 73 (2), 1959, 60-65.
Browne, Edward Harold, An Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles: Historical and Doctrinal (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871). PDF
Burnet, Gilbert, An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (1699; repr. edited by James R. Page; New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1842). PDF
Camiré, Jonathan, “3 reasons why Anglicans should read the Thirty-Nine Articles,” 5 June 2018, https://ca.thegospelcoalition.org/article/3-reasons-anglicans-read-thirty-nine-articles/
Cary, Henry, Testimony of the Fathers of the First Four Centuries to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England as Set Forth in the Thirty-Nine Articles (Oxford: D. A. Talboys, 1835). PDF
Chapman, Mark D., Anglican Theology (London: T. & T. Clark, 2012), 66-71.
Church of England. Archbishops’ Commission on Christian Doctrine, Subscription and Assent to the Thirty Nine Articles(London: SPCK, 1968).
Church of England. Archbishops’ Commission on Christian Doctrine, Subscription and Assent to the 39 Articles. Report of the Archbishops’ Commission on Christian Doctrine (London: SPCK, 1968).
Church of England. Archbishops’ Commission on Christian Doctrine, Doctrine in the Church of England. Report of the Commission on Christian Doctrine appointed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in 1922 (London: SPCK, 1938).
Claughton, Piers C., A Brief Comparison of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England with Holy Scripture (Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1843). PDF
Cloquet, Robert Louis, An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1885). PDF
Crouse, Robert D., “The authority of The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion today,” paper presented to the Atlantic Theological Conference. See G. R. Bridge, The Thirty-Nine Articles. PDF
Davie, Martin, Our Inheritance of Faith: A Commentary on the Thirty-Nine Articles (Malton, UK: Gilead Books, 2013).
Doctrine Commission of the Church of England, “Joint report,” in Christian Believing: The Nature of the Christian Faith and its Expression in Holy Scripture and Creeds (London: SPCK, 1976), 1-42.
Dugmore, C. W., “Foundation documents of the faith: VI. The Thirty-Nine Articles,” The Expository Times 91 (6), March 1980, 164-167.
Forbes, A. P., An Explanation of the Thirty-Nine Articles (Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1871). PDF
Gatiss, Lee (ed.), Foundations of Faith: Reflections on the Thirty-nine Articles (Watford, UK: Church Society, 2018).
Gibson, Edgar C. S., The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (2 vols; London: Methuen & Co., 1898; repr. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2005). PDF
Graham, Chad W., “An inheritance of faith: The Thirty-Nine Articles,” 20 November 2018, http://chadwgraham.com/an-inheritance-of-faith-the-thirty-nine-articles/
Green, E. Tyrrell, The Thirty-Nine Articles and the Age of Reformation (London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1896). PDF
Griffith Thomas, William Henry, The Catholic Faith: A Manual of Instruction for Members of the Church of England (revised edition; London: Church Book Room Press, 1952).
Griffith Thomas, William Henry, The Principles of Theology: An Introduction to the Thirty-Nine Articles (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1930).
Hardwick, Charles, A History of the Articles of Religion (third edition, revised by Francis Proctor; London: George Bell & Sons, 1876). PDF
Harvey, Anthony, “Attending to Scripture,” in Doctrine Commission of the Church of England, Believing in the Church: The Corporate Nature of Faith (London: SPCK, 1981), 25-44.
Havens, Anita Sue, “Henry Jenkins on the Thirty-Nine Articles: A study in nineteenth-century Anglican confessionalism,” MA thesis, Durham University, 1982, available at http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7390/
Hitching, Bob, “An overview of The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion,” unpublished paper, 2017.
Hughes, Philip Edgcumbe, The Thirty-Nine Articles: A Restatement (Cape Town: Church of England in South Africa, 1988).
Jackson, Bernard C., The Thirty-Nine Articles (London: The Book Room, 1911).
Jones, Thomas R., An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles by the Reformers (London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1849). PDF
Kidd, B. J., The Thirty-Nine Articles: Their History and Explanation (2 vols; London: Rivingtons, 1899). PDF
Knox, David Broughton, Thirty-Nine Articles (revised edition; Sydney: Anglican Information Office, 1976 [1967]).
Kuhn, Chase, “The ecclesiological influence of T. C. Hammond,” Churchman 127 (4), 2013, 323-336.
Lampe, G. W. H. (ed.), Doctrine in the Church of England. Archbishops’ Commission on Christian Doctrine, Doctrine in the Church of England. Report of the Commission on Christian Doctrine appointed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in 1922, reprinted with a new introduction (London: SPCK, 1982).
Lampe, G. W. H., “Appendix B. The origins of the creeds,” in Doctrine Commission of the Church of England, Christian Believing: The Nature of the Christian Faith and its Expression in Holy Scripture and Creeds (London: SPCK, 1976), 52-61.
Lampe, G. W. H., “Essay 4,” in Doctrine Commission of the Church of England, Christian Believing: The Nature of the Christian Faith and its Expression in Holy Scripture and Creeds (London: SPCK, 1976), 100-114.
Langmaid, Robert G. W., Forty Days with the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion: A Devotional Guide (Toronto: BPS Books, 2013).
Leith, John H., “The creeds and their role in the church,” in John H. Leith (ed.), Creeds of the Churches: A Reader in Christian Doctrine from the Bible to the Present (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1982), 1-11.
Lightfoot, John, Text-book of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (London: S. Sonnenschein, 1890).
Litton, E. A., Introduction to Dogmatic Theology on the Basis of the XXXIX Articles (London: Elliot Stock, 1882-1892; fourth edition, London: J. Clarke, 1960). PDF
Lohse, Bernhard, A Short History of Christian Doctrine from the First Century to the Present (revised edition; trans. F. Ernest Stoeffler; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985).
Macbeth, John, Notes on the Thirty-Nine Articles, Historical and Explanatory (Dublin: William McGee, 1894). PDF
Mackenzie, Kenneth, The Thirty-Nine Articles (London: The Church Union, n.d.). [c 1940-1959]
Maclear, G. F. & Williams, W. W., An Introduction to the Articles of the Church of England (London: Macmillan & Co., 1895). PDF
Macquarrie, John, “The Anglican theological tradition”, in Richard Holloway (ed.), The Anglican Tradition (London: Mowbray, 1984), 19-33.
Middleton, F. E., Lambeth and Trent (London: Chas. J. Thynne, 1900). PDF
Mitchell, Basil, “I believe: We believe,” in Doctrine Commission of the Church of England, Believing in the Church: The Corporate Nature of Faith (London: SPCK, 1981), 9-24.
Newman, John Henry, “Remarks on certain passages in the Thirty-Nine Articles,” Tracts for the Times no. 90 (London: Gilbert & Rivington, 1841). PDF
O’Donovan, H. C., A Familiar and Practical Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion (London: Taylor & Hessey, 1816). PDF
O’Donovan, Oliver, On the Thirty-Nine Articles: Conversations with Tudor Christianity (London: SCM Press, 2011).
Packer, J. I. & Beckwith, R. T., The Thirty-nine Articles: Their Place and Use Today (Oxford: Latimer House, 1984).
Pearce, R. F., The Failure of a Commission (London: Fellowship of Evangelical Churchmen, 1939).
Pigot, Thomas, The Churchman’s Guide in Perilous Times (London: R. B. Seeley & W. Burnside, 1835). PDF
Proctor, W. C. G., The Teaching of the Church of England Following the Thirty Nine Articles (Worthing, UK: Churchman Publishing, 1987).
Rahner, Karl & Vorgrimler, Herbert, “Creed, confession of faith,” in Cornelius Ernst (ed.), Theological Dictionary (trans. Richard Strahan; London: Burns & Oates, 1965), 111f.
Reardon, Bernard M. G., “The Thirty-Nine Articles and the Augsburg Confession,” Lutheran Quarterly 3 (1/2), 1989, 91-106.
Richardson, John P., “‘To our own people only’: Re-owning original Anglicanism,” Churchman 112 (2), 1998, 124-130.
Rodgers, John H., Essential Truths for Christians: A Commentary on the Thirty-Nine Articles and an Introduction to Systematic Theology (Blue Bell, PA: Classical Anglican Press, 2011).
Rogers, Thomas, The Catholic Doctrine of the Church of England: An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles (1586; repr. edited by J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1854). PDF
Ross, Kenneth N., The Thirty-Nine Articles (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., 1958).
Ryle, J. C., The Thirty-Nine Articles: The Confession of Faith of the Church of England (London: Thynne & Co., 1930).
Ryle, J. C., Who is the True Churchman? Or, The Thirty-nine Articles Examined (London: William Hunt & Co., 1872). PDF
Stevenson, Ronald C., “An Anglican understanding of authority,” paper presented to the Anglican Baptist International Conversations, North American Session, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, 10-12 September 2003.
Sykes, Stephen W. et al, Contemporary Doctrine Classics from the Church of England. Doctrine Commission of the General Synod of the Church of England (London: Church House Publishing, 2005).
Sykes, Stephen W., The Integrity of Anglicanism (New York” Seabury Press, 1978).
Sykes, Stephen W., Unashamed Anglicanism (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1995).
Tait, Arthur J., Lecture Outlines on the Thirty-Nine Articles (London: Elliot Stock, 1910). PDF
Taylor, John, “Introduction: The voice of the city,” in Doctrine Commission of the Church of England, Believing in the Church: The Corporate Nature of Faith (London: SPCK, 1981), 1-8.
Thompson, Mark D., “A history of subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles,” Churchman 125 (2), 2011, 135-150.
Thompson, Mark D., “The origins of the Thirty-Nine Articles,” Churchman 125 (1), 2011, 37-50.
Tiller, John, “The Thirty-Nine Articles: Their value in the twentieth century,” Churchman 75 (4), 1961, 230-242.
Tomline, George Pretyman, Elements of Christian Theology (vol. 2 of 2; 1799; repr. London: T. Cadell, 1843). PDF
Toon, Peter, “Doctrine as doxology: The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of the Anglican Way as a confession of faith in close relation to The Book of Common Prayer and The Ordinal,” edited transcripts of four lectures, Seattle Conference, St Luke’s Episcopal Church, Ballard, Seattle, 2-4 March 2006. PDF
Toon, Peter, “The Articles and Homilies,” in S. Sykes & J. Booty (eds), The Study of Anglicanism (London: SPCK, 1988).
Waite, T., Sermons, Explanatory and Practical, on the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (London: Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, 1826). PDF
Watson, J. R., “Charles Wesley and the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England,” paper presented at the 14th annual meetings of the Charles Wesley Society, San Diego, CA, 14-16 August 2003, Proceedings of the Charles Wesley Society 9, 2003-2004, 27-38.
Welchman, Edward, The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (1713; repr. London: SPCK, 1842). PDF
Wilson, W. G. & Templeton, J. H., Anglican Teaching: An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles (Dublin: Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962).
Wilson, William, The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England (London: T. Hamilton, 1821). PDF
Wix, A. M., Scriptural Illustrations of the Thirty-Nine Articles, with a Practical Comment Upon Each Article; Affectionately Intended to Promote religious Peace and Unity (London: F. C. & J. Rivington, 1808). PDF

