The study of ecclesiastical history presents unique problems: the
events it deals with are not ordinary events and fundamental
questions of faith may be involved in their interpretation. The
Church historian is often required to be a student of dogma as much
as of history. It is the complex relationships between history,
Church history and theology that Dr Sykes examines, using as
illustrations some of the vital issues arising from the revival of
interest in Church history in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. The disputes during the Reformation about the claims of
the papacy centred on the historical question of Peter's supremacy
over the other apostles. Another problem involving historical
evidence was the relative authority of scripture and tradition.
Finally, Dr Sykes reviews the changing pattern of relations between
Church and states and particularly the way in which events in
nineteenth-century Europe foreshadowed the problems of the Church
under the modern totalitarian regime. This historical study
displays how the secular and the theological are intertwined in
many of the issues which confront the historian of the Church.
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