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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...

of a twentieth-century theory of the identity of God with his self-revelation, it is an example of badly done history to thrust the theory upon Athanasius. It is also exceedingly unlikely that badly done history can be the basis of well-done theology. THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY The point of this discussion is not that history “teaches lessons” about the good and the bad, the moral and the immoral. Such lessons are the province of ethics, not of history. The importance of history lies instead in the
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