Unity and Truth: In the Church of England

by James Franklin Bethune-Baker

Originally published in 1934, this book contains the text of two lectures delivered that year on the subject of unity in the Anglican Church by the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, James Bethune-Baker. The third section of the book is given over to explaining certain recent divisive developments in Anglicanism, including attitudes to evolution and the literal truth of the Bible, which necessitated these lectures. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Anglican theology.

38 pages, Paperback

First published May 21, 2015

About the author

James Franklin Bethune-Baker FBA was the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1891 to 1935.

A Modern Churchman, Bethune-Baker was known for his work on the person and writings of Nestorius. He was co-editor of the Journal of Theological Studies. He was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge for sixty years. His funeral service took place in Pembroke College Chapel on 17 January 1951, but he was buried in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge. He was a cousin of Arthur Christopher Benson, who is also buried in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground.

He was married to Edith Bethune-Baker, née Furneaux Jordan, a welfare campaigner, who was born in 1862. Their son Arthur Bethune-Baker was a contemporary of Charles Hamilton Sorley at Marlborough College, but he died while still at school, aged sixteen.