The value of the church history

Abstract

Inquisitiveness or a strong desire to know or asking too many questions and trying to find out about the past has long depicted or portrayed man, starting with Nabonidus, who lived sixth century before Christ in Babylon, to the contemporary historian and archaeologist. Christianity earnestly speaking, is basically or fundamentally a historical religion. Church history is matter of profound interest to the Christian who desires to be enlightened concerning his spiritual ancestry, to emulate the good examples of the past, and to avoid errors that the Church has frequently made. The importance of the study of history cannot be over-emphasized as each generation is of necessity to or must know with regard to people, events, and notions of previous generations suitable or with the intention to produce wise choices or judgment in the present. There is great value in the study of church history. This is why the ancient historians had a great deal of greater accurate perception or worth recognition of a treatise on teaching or instructive to teach, practical or realistic, and moral and ethical values of church history than a lot of contemporary historians have. The people or historians who are aware of the values to be attained or obtained in the activity of learning the church history has influential way of making them to learn this specific area of history of human. This work adopted qualitative research approach with focus on historical and content analysis as a method. This work have shown that, the prime value of church history is that “it links the past factual data of the church gospel with the future proclamation and application of that gospel in a present synthesis that creates understanding of our great heritage and inspiration for its further proclamation and application. It has also shown that studying Christian heritage dispels the sense of loneliness and isolation in an era that stresses the peripheral and sensational and also guides in “the correction of existing evils within the church.