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The Christian Past in American Christianity — A Conversation with Professor Paul Gutacker

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

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The Rise and Fall of Church History

The discipline of church history emerged as a distinct field in the 1850s. It's still defensively Protestant, but it is aiming to do something more substantial than what you saw in the 18th century. Church history doesn't matter as much to American evangelicalism today as it did 50 years ago, says historian David Perry.

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