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Readers Respond to the 100 Events Issue
Which events should have been listed? Here's what you said.
KEVIN A. MILLER | posted 4/01/1991 12:00AM
When we published Issue 28 on “The 100 Most Important Events in Church History,” we had no idea it would draw more response than any issue in our history.
The Religious News Service published a feature story on the issue, as did the Associated Press, and these stories were carried in leading newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune.
Most gratifying to us, however, was that so many of you, our family of readers, wrote. You told us which events we should have included—and which we should have left out.
Only a Western View?
Several readers wrote about a Western slant in the entries. One eloquent statement came from Dr. Paul E. Pierson, dean and professor of history of mission and Latin American studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California:
The 25 most important events listed (after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus and the Council of Nicea) has no event which takes place outside the Western world, unless it was the adoption of Christianity in Russia by Vladimir. The list is ... To view this item, you must be a member of ChristianHistory.net.
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