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Documents of the Christian church / selected and edited by Henry Bettenson. - 3rd ed. / edited by Chris Maunder. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. - xxiv, 463 p. ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-455) and index.

Part I. The Early Church (to the Council of Chalcedon, 451) --
I. The Church and the World --
II. Creeds --
III. The Earliest Testimony to the Gospels --
IV. The Person and Work of Christ --
V. The Problem of the Relation of the Divinity and the Humanity in Christ --
VI. Pelagianism, Human Nature, Sin, and Grace --
VII. The Church, the Ministry, and the Sacraments --
VIII. The Authority of the Holy See --
IX. Doctrine and Development. The Vincentian Canon --
X. Christian Inscriptions --
Part II. From the Council of Chalcedon to the Present --
I. From Chalcedon to the Breach between East and West --
II. The Empire and the Papacy --
III. Monasticism and the Friars --
IV. The Church and Heresy --
V. The Conciliar Movement --
VI. Scholasticism --
VII. The Church in England until the Reformation --
VIII. The Reformation on the Continent --
IX. The Reformation in England --
X. The Roman Catholic Church from the Counter-Reformation to the Second Vatican Council --
XI. The British Churches in the Seventeenth Century --
XII. The British Churches in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries --
XIII. The Roman Catholic Church at the Second Vatican Council --
XIV. The Twentieth-Century World Churches : Justice, Peace, and the Environment --
XV. The Twentieth-Century World Churches and Inter-Faith Dialogue --
XVI. The Twentieth-Century Churches and Christian Unity --
XVII. The Twentieth-Century Churches : Sexuality and Procreation --
Appendix : A List of Councils.

ISBN: 0192880713 9780192880710

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Church history--Sources.

Dewey Class. No.: 270