Documents of the Christian Church

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Henry Bettenson
Oxford University Press, 1963 - Religion - 489 pages
"First published in 1943, this book won a world-wide reputation, so that 'Bettenson, Documents' is new referred to as a sourcebook in many important works. It is also fascinating reading, containing 'the hard facts of many disputed questions, the ammunition for controversy, the corrective to loose thinking and idle speech'. In 1963 it went into a second edition, so that it now covers an additional twenty years of Christian history, from the earliest document after the New Testament, down to the eve of the second Vatican Council. It spans the periods of the Fathers and the Middle Ages, Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, the Reformation, the Churches in Great Britain, and the beginning of the Ecumenical Movement, giving an indispensable background to history and current events." - Publisher

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Contents

Part I
1
Church and State
7
Section II
23
Section III
26
Athanasius on the Atonement
33
Section V
44
Eutychianism
48
The Doctrine of Augustine
54
Wycliffe and the Lollards
173
888
174
the Council of Constance 1415 b The Lollard Conclusions 1394
179
26
187
64
189
Calvinism
212
Section X
244
The Independents Congregationalism The Savoy Declaration
250

The Council of Orange 29 Reaction from SemiPelagianism
61
Eucharistic Doctrine
74
Part II
89
The Final Breach between East and West 1054
96
The End of the Struggle over Investiture III
111
25585
117
The Rule of S Francis
128
Section V
135
Section VII
151
The Constitutions of Clarendon 1164
157
Johns Ecclesiastical Charter 1214
164
63
166
Section XI
258
The Tridentine Profession of Faith 1564
266
The Roman Church and Social Problems
275
Section XII
282
The Test Act 1673
297
The Deistic Controversy of the Eighteenth Century
311
Tract XC Remarks on Certain Passages in the ThirtyNine Articles
318
Section XIII
325
The Old Catholic Churches and the Anglican Communion State
330
33
337
The Claims of Rome
341
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