Documents of the Christian Church / selected and edited by Henry Bettenson.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-336) and index.

Charlemagne and education, 789 -- The donation of Constantine, eighth century -- Church and state -- The end of the struggle over investiture -- The Pope and imperial elections -- The 'Clericis Laicos' Bull, 1296 -- The Bull 'Unam Sanctam', 1302 -- The rule of S. Benedict -- The rule of S. Francis -- The Episcopal Inquisition and the Secular Arm -- The justification of the inquisition -- The decree of the Council of Constance, 'Sacrosancta' -- The Bull 'Execrabilis' of Pius II -- S. Anselm's 'ontological proof' of God's existence -- S. Anselm on the Atonement -- Thomas Aquinas, 1225-74 -- Gregory the Great and the Church of England -- The first national synod of England clergy: the Council of Hertford, 673 -- William the conqueror and the church -- Henry and Anselm -- The Constitutions of Clarendon, 1164 -- The Pope's interdict on England, 1208 -- John's concession of the kingdom to the Pope, 1213 -- John's ecclesiastical charter, 1214 -- The church clauses of Magne Carta, 1215 -- Statutes of provisors and praemunire -- Wycliffe and Lollards -- The Lutheran Reformation -- Calvinism -- The Peace of Augsburg, 1555 -- The Edict of Nantes, 1598 -- The Peace of Westphalia, 1648 -- The reformation under Henry, VIII -- The Elizabethan Settlement -- Presbyterianism, the Westminster Confession of Faith, 1643 -- Baptist Confession of Faith -- The Independent (Congregationalism), the Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order, 1658 -- The Quakers -- The organization of the Methodists, The Jesuits -- The Council of Trent, 1545-63 -- The Tridentine Profession of Faith, 1564 -- Arminianism, the five articles of the remonstrants -- Jansenism, the 'five propositions', 1653 -- The Gallican Declaration, 1682 -- The Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, 1854 -- The Syllabus of Errors, 1864 -- The Doctrine of Papal Infallibility, 1870 -- Pope Leo XIII on Anglican Orders, 1896 -- The Roman Church and social problems -- The Doctrine of the Assumption, Manificentissimus Deui, 1950 -- James I and the Puritans -- The Solemn League and Covenant, 1643 -- Selections from the Agreement of the People, 1649 -- Selections from the Instrument of Government, 1653 -- 'The Humble Petition and Advice, 1657 -- The Clarendon Code -- The test Act, 1673 -- The declaration of Indulgence, 1688 -- Anglicanism of the seventeenth century -- The Deistic Controversy of the eighteenth century -- John Keble's Assize Sermon, 1833 -- Tract XC, remarks on certain passages in the Thirty-Nine Articles , London, 1841 -- Anglican orders, responsio to Apostolicae Curae, 1897 -- The Old Catholic churches and the Anglican Communion, statement on intercommunication, 1931 -- The church of South India, basis of Union, 1946 -- The World Council of Churches.

This fully revised edition of Bettenson's widely acclaimed volume traces Christian history through 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.