Toward a History of Christianity

You readers of Church History and of other series devoted to the historiography of Christianity will have smelled audacity in my title. I am not blind to the plenitude of reports concerning persons who, in their many places and times, took themselves, and thus may be taken, as Christians. Discrete i...

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Published in:Church history
Main Author: Clebsch, William A. (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press [1974]
In: Church history
Year: 1974, Volume: 43, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-16
IxTheo Classification:KBA Western Europe
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary:You readers of Church History and of other series devoted to the historiography of Christianity will have smelled audacity in my title. I am not blind to the plenitude of reports concerning persons who, in their many places and times, took themselves, and thus may be taken, as Christians. Discrete information about past Christianity abounds. But few and far between are overall histories of this religion, even in its western manifestation. And the separate episodes can hardly be made to fit into a whole story until we fashion the pieces according to some consistent historical interpretation.
ISSN:0009-6407
Contains:Enthalten in: Church history
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3164076