The Origin and Development of the Christian Church in Gaul: During the First Six Centuries of the Christian Era Being the Birkbeck Lectures, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)
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Church in England, and of his desire to come to some reliable conclusions as to the condition of the Church in Britain before the English invasion. For everything, in the civilised world of the Roman Empire, Gaul was the threshold of Britain, and it is impossible to come to any conclusions as to what may, or may not, have been in this island until we know all we can know of what really had occurred, and was, in Gaul. When, therefore, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College in 1906 appointed the author Birkbeck Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History the subject he chose for his courses of lectures was that of the origin of the Church in Gaul, and the acceptance of this subject by the Divinity Faculty at Cambridge as the theses for the B.D. and D.D. degrees gave him a yet further stimulus in pursuit of a strictly historical inquiry as to the early settlement of the Church in the great province of Gaul. In one sense the work has some claim to originality. The subject has never been taken up on such serious lines of historical criticism by any English
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