Abstract
E. Glenn Hinson reflects on a scholarly career of almost fifty years spent in the study of early Christian history. After recounting the journey that led him to settle on early Christian history as a field of academic specialization, Hinson identifies some of the most important insights he gained from this study, including a move away from a “fall” paradigm of the development of the church; the necessity of some degree of cultural accommodation in the church's relationship to society; a covenantal understanding of Christian identity; and a critical openness to the whole of church history as the heritage of Baptists and all other Christians. These insights have significance for challenges of the church in the present world crisis.
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