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One of the leading Christian historians of the twentieth century,
Kenneth Scott Latourette, has observed that American Protestants
from the nineteenth century onward have tended “to ignore the
developments which had taken place in Christianity in the Old World
after the first century.” This has led to the unhappy situation that
American Protestants, especially evangelicals and fundamentalists,
are a people without an identity, unaware of their spiritual roots,
and consequently are prone to theological faddism. By ignoring
our
past we have cut ourselves off from a knowledge of the work of God
over nearly two millennia. We betray an incredible arrogance that in
effect says that over the past 20 centuries, God has taught us
alone!
This lack of historical perspective has resulted in a myopic
perspective in theological and biblical understanding. While
claiming to honor the Bible alone as an authority, we have in fact
committed ourselves on the one hand to reinventing the wheel, and
on the other to understandings of both the Bible and theology, often
built upon minds of inferior quality to the giants of the past.
As Protestants we find our heritage in the Reformation, yet the
Reformers did not try to wipe away 1500 years of history. They
self-consciously built their theology upon that of the early church
fathers, especially Augustine, though always measuring it against
and grounding it in scripture.
It is not too much to say that no one can legitimately claim to have
a grasp of Christianity who does not have a grasp of the history of
the church, the issues, the conflicts, and the contexts that brought
forth our understanding of God as Trinity, of the Person of Christ
as
God and man, of the nature of man and sin, and of the necessity of
redemption. These understandings do not arise in a vacuum, nor
solely from a reading of the “plain meaning” of the biblical text.
Our
spiritual forefathers struggled, and in some cases died, to bring
these truths to us. These truths are only self-evident to us because
of their labor in service to our risen Lord.
This CD-ROM containing 100 volumes of historical material places at
the fingertips much of the key theological and biblical reflection
of
the last two thousand years. It is a key resource that will enrich
and
deepen appreciation and understanding. Every responsible Christian,
whether layman or scholar or at some point in between, really needs
to study and learn from the resources contained on this CD. This is
a
resource that is an absolute necessity for every Christian. You can
not afford to be without it.
Dr. M. James Sawyer,
Professor of Systematic & Historical Theology
Western Seminary, San Jose
