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Heretics, Saints, and Martyrs

LONDON HUMPHREY MILFORD

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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COPYRIGHT, 1925

BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

PRINTED AT THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, U, S. A.

Preface

URING the last generation a revolution has

laying down the principles of the law and giving some illustrations, the professors to-day cite a large number of cases and require their students to gather the law from them. This case-system, as it is called, after being introduced tentatively in one law school and being strongly opposed by others, has now become almost universal.

A similar change may be noted in the teaching of church history. Formerly theology was treated, first, exegetically and dogmatically, and then reference was made to men whose opinions confirmed or opposed the conclusions reached. The development of theologic thought was rarely traced, and a man's place in a system was more emphasized than the man himself. Recently we have come to study with more interest each man's personal history, the development of his thought, its relations to the conditions of his time and to the course of thought of the world. From the contributions of this man and that we may, if we are patient, construct an orderly course of theologic thought.

Something of this case-study may perhaps be found in the following pages. The essays aim to

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