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title: 'Hugh T. Kerr on What It Means to Know Church History'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2023-02-25
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2023-hugh-t-kerr-on-what-it-means-to-know-church-history
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# Hugh T. Kerr on What It Means to Know Church History

“To know history is to be acquainted with all knowledge. History makes a man at home in all lands, in all ages, in all families. The historian can spend a quiet hour with Aristotle, an evening with Abraham. He may dine with Augustine and go for a walk through the highlands of Asia with Paul of Tarsus. To know Church history is to have in one’s possession the great apologetic for the Christian faith.” — [Hugh T. Kerr, Sr.](/authors/hugh-thomson-kerr) (1871-1950), *Charge to Dr. \[Gaius J.\] Slosser* (1930)