---
title: 'Progress and Personality in Church History: An Inaugural Address'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'David Schley Schaff'
date: 1898-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Church History'
- 'Pastoral Theology'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 13'
- 'Ephesians 2'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/schaff-1898-progress-and-personality-in-church-history-an-inaugural-address
---

# Progress and Personality in Church History: An Inaugural Address

Inaugural address by David S. Schaff on teaching church history: view history as the unfolding of redemption, train ministers to learn from the past under Scripture's guidance.

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