Steve Stanley’s Reviews > Historical Theology for the Church > Status Update

Historical theology for the church seeks to study the development of doctrine as an act of love for God and as an act of love for neighbor.

Nathan Finn helpfully describes the task of the historian in light of the Greatest Commandments, indicating that what distinguishes the Christian historian is motive. Is one pursuing historical inquiry as ‘ultimately an act of worship done for the Lord’ and seeking to ‘understand and appreciate why people in the past did what they did, even when the historian disagrees with the act itself?’