Everett Ferguson

A 1953 graduate of Abilene Christian, Everett Ferguson (1933- ) earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1959. He joined the Abilene Christian faculty in 1962. He is recognized as an authority on church history throughout the scholarly world, with a special emphasis on the ante-Nicene church.

In the preface to a festschrift presented to him on his 65th birthday this year, Yale Divinity School professor emeritus Abraham Malherbe writes, "Everett Ferguson's unassuming manner has not prevented him from making extraordinary contributions to scholarship. His enormous capacity to amass prodigious amounts of information, his great powers of concentration, and his well-honed intellect have combined to make him a person of great erudition. They have also resulted in scholarship that is commonsensical and trustworthy."

Although Ferguson retired from full-time teaching in 1990 to devote himself to research, he continued teaching occasionally until 2007-08. Ferguson has been an elder of the Hillcrest Church of Christ for many years. He lectures on patristics, church history, and ecclesiology throughout the world.

Early Christians Speak: Faith and Life in the First Three Centuries, Vol. 1 (1997)

Church History, Volume One: From Christ to Pre-Reformation – The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context (2004)

Backgrounds of Early Christianity (3rd ed., 2003) | Book Review

Early Christians Speak: Faith and Life in the First Three Centuries, Vol. 2 (2002)

The Church of Christ: A Biblical Ecclesiology for Today (1996)

Gregory of Nyssa: The Life of Moses (with Abraham Malherbe and John Meyendorff, Classics of Western Spirituality, 1978)

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Early Christians Speak (3rd ed., 1999)

Church, Ministry, and Organization in the Early Church Era (Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 13, 1993)

Acts of Piety in the Early Church (Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 17, 1993)

Personalities of the Early Church (1993)

Missions and Regional Characteristics of the Early Church (Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 12, 1993)

Editor: Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 846, 1992)

The everlasting kingdom: The kingdom of God in scripture and in our lives (Way of Life Series, 1989)

A Capella Music in the Public Worship of the Church (1988)

Acts of Apostles: The Message of the New Testament (Way of Life Series, 1986)

Demonology of the Early Christian World (Symposium Series, vol. 12, 1985)

Church history: Early and medieval (Way of Life Series, 2nd ed., 1985)

Message of the New Testament: The Letters of John (Way of Life Series, 1984)

The New Testament church (Way of Life Series, 1968)

Church History Reformation and Modern (1967) [TOP]