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Zusatztext This is a new and improved version of a popular and accessible old classic ... which brings together some of the most significant documents and texts in church history. ... the updated Bettenson and Maunder remains a very useful repository of a broad range of standard texts from across the centuries. Klappentext This selection of writings from the most important moments in the history of Christianity has become established as a classic reference work. This new edition brings the anthology up-to-date with a new section looking at issues facing the twenty-first century churches. Zusammenfassung This selection of writings from the most important moments in the history of Christianity has become established as a classic reference work. This new edition brings the anthology up-to-date with a new section looking at issues facing the twenty-first century churches. Inhaltsverzeichnis I: The Early Church (to the Council of Chalcedon, 451) 1: The Church and the World 2: Creeds 3: The Earliest Testimony to the Gospels 4: The Person and Work of Christ 5: The Problem of the Relation of the Divinity and the Humanity in Christ 6: Pelagianism. Human Nature, Sin, and Grace 7: The Church, the Ministry, and the Sacraments 8: The Authority of the Holy See 9: Doctrine and Development. The Vincentian Canon 10: Christian Inscriptions II: From the Council of Chalcedon to the Present 1: From Chalcedon to the Breach between East and West 2: The Empire and the Papacy 3: Monasticism and the Friars 4: The Church and Heresy 5: The Conciliar Movement 6: Scholasticism 7: The Church in England until the Reformation 8: The Reformation on the Continent 9: The Reformation in England 10: The Roman Catholic Church from the Counter-Reformation to the Second Vatican Council 11: The British Churches in the Seventeenth Century 12: The British Churches in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 13: The Roman Catholic Church at the Second Vatican Council 14: The Twentieth-Century World Churches: Justice, Peace, and the Environment 15: The Twentieth-Century World Churches and Inter-Faith Dialogue 16: The Twentieth-Century Churches and Christian Unity 17: The Twentieth-Century Churches: Sexuality and Procreation 18: The Churches and Twenty-First Century Issues ...
