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

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Church History

I think it's astounding that more significant works in church history were not written during the inter-denominational competition. That doesn't emerge actually, at least in Baptist life, really until the end of the 19th century. And frankly, it's still pretty embryonic until you get to the 1920s. But from Mosseim, let me just ask you to move to Philip Shaft, because I think that's a big part of the story. You know, he appears to many to be undermining the whole project because his vision of church history is more organic. He sees the Reformation as an outgrowth of medieval Catholicism and fulfillment of it.

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