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A History Of The Reformed Presbyterian Church, Nancy Elizabeth Clark

Graduate Thesis Collection

If any one event in history were caused by any other single event, or indeed if any trend of events were caused by any other single trend, historical research would be a relatively simple matter. But history is not so simple. A history of government does not involve politics alone, nor does a history of baseball involve simply the quality of the pitcher's and batter's techniques. Likewise the history of a church includes far more than the Sunday sermons, however important these may be.

The complexity of a given historical institution can perhaps be typified by the subject of the …