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7 Rules of Historic Research

7 Rules of Historic Research.MP3
“Sometimes the available evidence is such as to eliminate any reasonable doubt about the validity of an interpretation.”
Frederick Copleston, Problems of Objectivity, On the History of Philosophy
“The historian’s real work is the reconstruction in thought of a particular historical event: the geologist’s, the reconstruction in thought of a particular geological epoch [...]

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Orthodoxy Before There Was a New Testament

A lot of people argue against Dogma and Orthodoxy on the grounds that the early church had neither. To answer that position, Darrell Bock points to four areas of activity in the earliest churches and their worship services. Those four areas are Scripture (i.e., the Hebrew Bible, what we call the Old Testament), Schooling [...]

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