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Title: Documents of the Christian Church by Henry Bettenson, Chris Maunder ISBN: 0-19-288071-3 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Essential
Comment: If you want to know more about the history of the church, and you want to read the original documents, this is the book. This book will take you deeper into doctrine origination and debate throughout the history of the church. There are many typed of documents represented from Augustine to more modern documents on Jesuits. I appreciate the fact they do some limited notes for you to help you understand dates, but otherwise leave you to figure out for yourself what these documents mean, and if they are valid or not. It leaves it up to you, not someone telling you what they think. Good compilation & scholarship.
Joseph Dworak
Rating: 5
Summary: Good introduction, providing primary texts!
Comment: Henry Bettenson and Chris Maunder have done a great job of collecting some of the most important documents of the Christian religion from the beginning until today. Almost every major controversy in the universal Church is represented by a document or two. For instance, Arianism, Montanism, Sabellianism, etc, are all covered. Sometimes the writings of the heretics are thrown in for a more balanced perspective. As the authors move past the Reformation, the book becomes less useful. Since there are so many documents from various denominations, it becomes impossible to fit all of them in one small book. The Church of England is heavily represented, as are other religious movements in England. The documents of the Roman Catholic Church are represented, including documents of Trent and Vatican II. Luther's entire '95 Theses' are included. Some of the modern documents relate to issues of women's ordination, black theology, social justice, homosexuality, ecumenical relations, and AIDS. These are useful because they give documents from our own time.
Overall this is a good collection. However, for every document included, there were 20 more that could have been added. This is just the nature of the book. The editors did a great job of choosing relevant documents. So it's a good collection that will scratch the surface, acting as an introduction, but is by no means the only book someone studying Christian thought in-depth would need. However, the book provides original texts, which many people rarely get to read, so that is quite a treat. While the book is small, the print is tiny, so they manage to squeeze in a lot of material in 461 pages! As a collection of primary texts, this is one of the best introductions to the thought of the Church from its birth until today.
Rating: 5
Summary: Indispensible
Comment: If you are a student of theology, Western history of almost any sort, church-state relations, sociology of religion, philosophy of religion, or are just a mad autodidact, you already have this book. All primary sources, and fascinating reading for any occasion. If it played a role in the formation of Western theology and political-ecclesiological development, it is in this small book. There is information in this book you don't even know that you are missing, so look at it this way: church histories are necessary and very important, but wouldn't you like to read the same documents the historians are reading, and draw your own conclusions? An essential tool for professors, students, pastors, and educated Westerners of all stripes.
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Title: The Story of Christianity: Volume 1 : Volume One: The Early Church to the Reformation by Justo L. Gonzalez ISBN: 0060633158 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 18 July, 1984 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Story of Christianity: Reformation to the Present Day by Justo L. Gonzalez ISBN: 0060633166 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 15 January, 1985 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Chronological and Background Charts of Church History by Robert C. Walton, Earle E. Cairns ISBN: 0310362814 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 06 April, 1986 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: A History of Christianity, Volume 1: Beginnings to 1500 (Revised) by Kenneth S. Latourette ISBN: 0060649526 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 15 October, 1975 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Trinitarian Controversy (Sources of Early Christian Thought) by William C. Rusch, William G. Rusch ISBN: 0800614100 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: October, 1980 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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