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From Unity to Locality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2011

John Corrigan
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In 1932, Shirley Jackson Case, a recent president of the American Society of Church History, summarized the activities of the “The Church History Deputation to the Orient” by rehearsing some of the questions that the visiting scholars asked of their colleagues in Asia. Among those queries were these: “What service is the study of Church History as a whole rendering to Christianity today in your country? Could this service be improved, and, if so, in what practical way?” For Case and others, the study of church history was directly related to the practice of Christianity. To research, publish, and teach church history was to serve Christianity.

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Church History , Volume 80 , Issue 2 , June 2011 , pp. 363 - 365
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 2011

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References

1 McNeill, John T., Unitive Protestantism: A Study in Our Religious Resources (New York: Abingdon, 1930)Google Scholar; reprinted in its revised edition as Unitive Protestantism: The Ecumenical Spirit in Its Persistent Expression (rev. ed., Richmond, Va.: John Knox, 1964)Google Scholar.