Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture

Table of Contents - 2001 - Volume 70, Issue 01  

Articles

Church History as Vocation and Moral Discipline

Hans J. Hillerbrand

I should like to acknowledge at the outset that I harbor no grandiose illusions about the import of what I will say this afternoon. As any veteran of annual meetings readily knows, presidential addresses are a time-honored ritual in the life of learned societies, a ritual comparable to the prayers spoken in the United States Congress, well meant, but stirring only mild interest. Alas, they all tend to be written as on water.