Comments on: Why Study Christian History? (Part 3) http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/07/08/why-study-christian-history-part-3/ Mike Aquilina's Blog Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Aimee Milburn http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/07/08/why-study-christian-history-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1197 Aimee Milburn Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:58:52 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/07/08/why-study-christian-history-part-3/#comment-1197 This is beautiful. One of the things that led to my conversion to Catholicism, after having been an Evangelical for some years, was the study of Christian history. I began it because I had a feeling that, if it is true that there is a mystical Body of which I am a part, a Body which spans history, then the history of that Body is my history, and I should know it. I think the study of Christian history, for a Christian, is not only an intellectual endeavor. I believe it is a deeply mystical endeavor, one of the things that links us, even more inseparably, and with deep love, to the whole Body of which we are a part. To study each part, each period, each person, it to study, and come to appreciate and to love, yet another part in the beautiful fabric of God, which He is weaving from eternity to earth, from earth through history, and back up into eternity. Thank you for this beautiful series. It is wonderful. This is beautiful. One of the things that led to my conversion to Catholicism, after having been an Evangelical for some years, was the study of Christian history. I began it because I had a feeling that, if it is true that there is a mystical Body of which I am a part, a Body which spans history, then the history of that Body is my history, and I should know it.

I think the study of Christian history, for a Christian, is not only an intellectual endeavor. I believe it is a deeply mystical endeavor, one of the things that links us, even more inseparably, and with deep love, to the whole Body of which we are a part. To study each part, each period, each person, it to study, and come to appreciate and to love, yet another part in the beautiful fabric of God, which He is weaving from eternity to earth, from earth through history, and back up into eternity.

Thank you for this beautiful series. It is wonderful.

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