As I mention on the front page, this is not an alternative history site.
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The more I've devoted myself to studying history (and science), the more I've found that scholars are forced to keep each other honest.
If you come up with the new, unique view that no one else has, and you can prove it, you'll be famous. As a result, scholars want to challenge the status quo. They want to go against the grain.
But in scholarly circles, you have to have evidence to back it up.
Scholars don't hide things. There is no conspiracy!
They don't hide things because they can't hide things. There's too much temptation to speak out.
Oh, sure, you'll be castigated for a while. The "old school" will roast you. Eventually, though, if you've got the evidence on your side, you'll win.
I do look at alternative histories, but they're always wrong. Whether Christian (like The Trail of Blood and The Torch of the Testimony) or secular (like The Da Vinci Code), they're based on shallow research and faulty reasoning.
Because they're boring and hard to understand.
My job is to sort through all the boring stuff, find what you want to know, make sure the scholars have really done their homework, then report it to you.
In the end, however, the history you're learning here came from scholars who did long, difficult research in order to find these things out. Again, this is not an alternative history site.
It's a LOT of work checking on who really did the research, but it's not difficult, just time-consuming. Once a scholar has blessed the rest of us by hunting down those sources, it's just a matter of actually checking the sources to find out who's telling the truth and who's dishonest or living in wishful thinking.
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Start on Christian History for FreeNeed to get started for free? Of course, it's going to be hard to do better than this web site! However, to read the early Christian writings on your own, the place to go is Classic Christian Ethereal Library. There you can read just about everything written in the first few centuries of the church online for free or purchase .pdf's for a minimal cost. I get no commission or benefit for recommending this. It's just a good place to start. |
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The Ante-Nicene FathersIt's over a century old, but you're not going to better than the Edinburgh series put together by the church of England in the 1890's. It is an essential resource for the amateur historian. This set has a lot of neat features. At the back of every book and in the last volume is an index of both subjects and Scriptures. How did the apostles' churches use John 3:16? Just look it up in the index. It's a rare verse that's not covered somewhere in the first three centuries, and this series indexes every reference. There are also introductions giving the backgrounds of both the authors and the writings, most of which is still solid scholarship a century later. You can get their Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series at Christian Book Distributors, too. It's impossible to beat their prices. |
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. – G.K. Chesterton |
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