The study of history provides a framework within which the student can systematically investigate certain ideas, concepts, and trends which have characterized the collective experience and expression of mankind. This study can provide insights into our world and provoke thought for exploration. History helps provide a framework and an ordered sequence of events to aid the student’s understanding of the past, present, future and God’s works in history. History provides perspective and the accumulated experience of the past so essential to one’s personal enrichment and personal balance.
Part of the task of the student of history is to determine the nature, source, and validity of historical knowledge. The historian has the burden of trying to accurately reconstruct the past and then to bring meaning to it.
For centuries the study of history has been an integral part of University level studies. In particular, Emmanuel University emphasizes historical studies because Christianity has had such a profound influence on world history.
