It's been fun reading Historians of the Christian Tradition. In the last two days I've learned a bit about F C Baur, Merle D'Aubingne, J H Newman, William Cunningham, I A Dorner, Johann Adam Mohler, Josef Rupert Geiselmann, and Philip Schaff (or, as he was born, Philipp Schaaf). I'm learning that though the 19th century more or less saw the birth of church history as a discipline, there were some strange ideas floating about then. I guess that would make it no different than now, just different weirdnesses.