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Inventing Church History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2011

Richard P. Heitzenrater
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Previous American Society of Church History (ASCH) presidents have used their presidential addresses for a variety of purposes, from contributing to the cutting edge of their own specialties to scanning the previous highlights of personalities or developments in their field.

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Church History , Volume 80 , Issue 4 , December 2011 , pp. 737 - 748
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 2011

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2 Similar to the methodology in Columba Stewart's paper, “The Invention of Early Monasticism,” presented at the American Society of Church History Winter Meeting, January 8, 2011.

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