Today’s free book is Edward Cutt’s survey of church history from the New Testament to the Reformation. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain book available for digitisation. Edward Lewis Cutts [1824-1908], Turning Points in General Church History. London: SPCK, 1887. Hbk. pp.451. [Click here to visit the download…
Today’s free book is F.J. Badcock’s History of the Creeds. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation. No student of the history of liturgies can afford to neglect the evidence furnished by baptismal Creeds. These were an intrinsic, though only an occasional, part of the…
Today’s free books is George Duncan Barry’s study of the teaching of the early church concerning the inspiration and authority of Scripture. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation. George Duncan Barry [1864-1945], The Inspiration and Authority of Holy Scripture. A Study in the Literature…
Today’s free book is the standard translation of the Aristides of Athens’ Apology. The history of the discovery if the text is summarised on Wikipedia: In 1878, the Armenian monks of the Mechitarite convent in Venice published the first two chapters, which they had found in a manuscript in their collection in Armenian translation. This…
Today’s free book is a collection of primary sources from the early church – eight canons of Church Councils in both patristic Greek and in Latin. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain work available for digitisation. William Lambert [1536-1601], Codex Canonum Ecclesæ Universæ. The Canons of the First…
Today’s free book is Tertullian’s work Concerning the Resurrection of the Flesh, translated into English by Alexander Souter. My thanks to Book Aid for making available a copy of this public domain title for digitisation. Alexander Souter [1873-1949], Tertullian: Concerning the Resurrection of the Flesh. Translations of Christian Literature, Series II: Latin Texts. London: SPCK/New…
