The Contribution of Church History to Ministerial Efficiency
We are beginning to see that church history is one phase of universal history, and universal history is a phase of social living. To understand the church we therefore need to understand the people who composed it, the institutions in the midst of which it lived, and which it somewhat approved. So t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
1916
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The biblical world
Year: 1916, Volume: 48, Issue: 5, Pages: 277-282 |
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| Summary: | We are beginning to see that church history is one phase of universal history, and universal history is a phase of social living. To understand the church we therefore need to understand the people who composed it, the institutions in the midst of which it lived, and which it somewhat approved. So to understand the past is a training in the understanding of the present. It is one thing to let conditions affect life unconsciously and quite another so intelligently to organize our church life that when it is given its true perspective it shall be seen not only to construct a future, but genetically to connect that future with a past. The minister's task is certainly not alien to such an undertaking. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The biblical world
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/475636 |