THE labours of the Magdeburg Centuriators and Baronius had the immediate effect of establishing two separate and hostile schools of church-history. Ecclesiastical antiquity was henceforth the field on which the champions of the Romish and protestant p...
THE labours of the Magdeburg Centuriators and Baronius had the immediate effect of establishing two separate and hostile schools of church-history. Ecclesiastical antiquity was henceforth the field on which the champions of the Romish and protestant parties fought their fiercest battles; and the history of the church was regarded by too many as little else than a branch of polemical divinity. All things considered, this was perhaps inevitable.