An indispensable source book, "Bettenson, Documents" has won for itself a world-wide reputation since its first publication in 1943. 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." The second edition has been enlarged to include Christian history through the beginning of the Ecumenical Movement.
The book now spans the periods of the Fathers, the Church in the Roman Empire, the Creeds, Scholasticism, the Reformation, the Churches in Great Britain, and Roman Catholic pronouncements up to the eve of the Second Vatican Council. Documents are also included on the Church of South India and the meetings of the Council of Churches in 1947 and 1961.
Selected and Edited by Henry Bettenson.
Editorial Reviews
"That invaluable Christian reference book..." --Church Times
"Here is a fine collection of the most important source materials for the history of Christianity, in a compact and attractive little volume..." --The Christian Century
"No student of church history can afford to be without it." --The Churchman
"This source book can be used to make your own 'do-it-yourself' Church History. Here is varied material about which you can make up your own mind with no partisan scholar coming in between." --Methodist Magazine
About the Author
Henry Scowcroft Bettenson (1908 – 1979) was an English Classical scholar, translator and author. Educated at Bristol University and Oriel College, Oxford; after some years in parish work, he taught Classics for 25 years at Charterhouse, then afterward rector of Purleigh in Essex. Notable works include a translation of Augustine's City of God and Livy's Rome and the Mediterranean. His collection of Early Christian documents, written from an Anglican perspective (hence the emphasis on early councils and on seventeenth century Church of England documents), and history of the Latin fathers remain in print.
