Concordia Theological Monthly
Article Title
Publication Date
10-1-1947
Document Type
Article
Keywords
church history, historiography, reformation, bernheim, political, fueter, humanism, petrarch, ecclesiastical, eduard
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
Eduard Fueter, ascribing the development of modern historiography to the Lutheran Reformation and more particularly to the purposes of polemics, declares that Protestant church history was created solely for the needs of confessional polemics. Ancient church history was to furnish the proof that Protestantism, in contrast to Catholicism, had preserved the original purity of Christianity. Medieval church history was to expose the terrible darkness to which the rule of the Antichrist had led.
Disciplines
History of Christianity
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Spitz, W.
(1947)
"History as a Weapon in Controversy,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 18, Article 63.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol18/iss1/63
