Why Should I Be Interested in Church History?
2017
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The Word of God exalts history and calls us to study it, yet the prevailing attitude among many Christians today is that the study of the past is good only for collecting bits of entertaining trivia. Asserting that “meditating upon God’s works and servants in history is not optional for the Christian but an important part of covenant faithfulness to the Lord,” church historians Joel R. Beeke and Michael A. G. Haykin present seven benefits for the Christian who studies church history and provide practical suggestions for how to get started.
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Author
Joel R. Beeke
Author · 78 books
Dr. Joel R. Beeke serves as President and Professor of Systematic Theology, Church History, and Homiletics. He has been in the ministry since 1978 and has served as a pastor of his current church since 1986. He is also editor of the Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society. He has written, co-authored, or edited fifty books and contributed over fifteen hundred articles to Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. His Ph.D. (1988) from Westminster Theological Seminary is in Reformation and Post-Reformation Theology. He is frequently called upon to lecture at Reformed seminaries and to speak at conferences around the world. He and his wife, Mary, have three children: Calvin, Esther, and Lydia.
