But as so often in religious history, the deeper issue is one of church governance.
It is a very old village with a cultural and religious history.
"This is a new and very interesting part of religious history in America."
His other works on religious history have also been highly praised.
They teach about religious history and quite a number of other things which have taken place around the world in the past 25 years.
Which in fact sums up a great deal of religious history.
But he possesses a sense of the religious history around him.
For the religious history of the period it is invaluable.
Not a bad formula, one might argue, for writing religious history.
"But they should take a religious or spiritual history on all patients with significant medical illness."