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grbs-11781	Downey, Glanville	The Perspective of the Early Church Historians	1965	14	.pdf	application/pdf	6160	201	52	So our interest in the church historians who wrote in the fifth and sixth centuries, Socrates, Sozomen and Evagrius, is not only in their accounts of an epoch-making period in the history of the early church, but in their understanding of the nature of church history at a time when church history itself was a relatively new subject. Socrates, then, believed that there was a need for church history, not solely or primarily as a history of the church as an institution and of its internal affairs, but as an account of the church as an element of stability in the life of the state as a whole.	cache/grbs-11781.pdf	txt/grbs-11781.txt