Unitive Protestantism: The Ecumenical Spirit and Its Persistent Expression by John T. McNeill. The Epworth Press, London, 1964 - first British edition of the revised edition (first published 1930). ISBN: none - pre-ISBN. The Union Seminary church historian (editor of the Library of Christian Classics Calvin's Institutes) traces the unitive principle in Protestantism from Luther, Calvin, Melanchthon and Cranmer's project for a Reformed consensus down to the World Council of Churches.

Provenance: from the personal library of the historian William Brown Patterson - scholar of the English Reformation and author of King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge) and William Perkins and the Making of a Protestant England (Oxford) - with his ownership signature ("W. B. Patterson") on the front free endpaper; one of several books from his library offered here.

Condition: GOOD. Hardcover in dark brown cloth with silver spine lettering, in the original dust jacket, protected in a removable mylar sleeve. Jacket not price-clipped (21s net intact on the front flap); front panel bright, rear panel and flaps toned with spotting and foxing, light wear at the spine ends. Cloth clean; binding tight. Text clean and unmarked; "Revised Edition" handwritten in pencil on the title page; foxing to the endpapers, preliminaries and page edges.

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