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This book arose out of a methods seminar for graduate students at the beginning of their doctoral work. It is not only a practical resource for students studying church history and history of doctrine, but also for those interested in the areas of systematic and philosophical theology. Church History offers graduate students who plan to become professional historians the guidelines, methods, and...

not an immediate party. Indeed, any description of an event, even one written later by a contemporary, has a certain secondary character when contrasted with remains or evidences of the event itself—such as a transcript or a juridical record. Secondary sources, therefore, are sources that offer information about an event but stand removed from it either in time or by a process of transmission of information. The secondary source is not a direct result of an event but itself rests on other sources
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