The following are textbooks being used by Carl R. Trueman, Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, in his course on The Ancient Church.

From the seminary catalog:

The Ancient Church

Purpose:
• To introduce students to the major events, personalities, and ideas which shaped the life and thought of the early church
• To encourage students to think historically about the church’s past
• To enable students to read the major texts of the early Church Fathers for themselves

Topics and personalities covered include the first-century background, the Apostolic Fathers, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen, trinitarian and christological debates, Augustine, the rise of
monasticism, and martyrdom.