The Artist Works the Gold: The Vision of Philip Schaff

Abstract

“[I]f church history is a theological discipline, if somehow God is to be taken into account in the study of church history … the example of Schaff's work, with its emphasis upon the continuity of God's work throughout history, at least reminds us that, if there is any such thing as a ‘history of salvation,’ a heilsgeschichte, it must extend beyond the biblical period.”