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August 5, 2025 62 mins

Was it bishops first, or priests?


Who came first: the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, or Evangelicals?


Where is there still unity?


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John D. Woodbridge, PhD (born 1941) is an American church historian, professor, editor, and composer. He is Research Professor of Church History and Christian Thought at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.


He joined the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in the department of church history in 1970 and became full professor in 1974. He was Visiting Professor of History at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois from 1989–1995. From 1997 to 1999 he served as a senior editor at Christianity Today.


Among the books which he has either authored or edited, four have won a Gold Medallion Book Award.[2] He appeared on The John Ankerberg Show in the 1980s. He is a member of the American Catholic Historical Association and the American Society of Church History.[3] In 2017, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Theology from Colorado Christian University.


He has been a participant in Evangelicals and Catholics Together discussions for the last thirty years. He is presently writing a book on the history of American Evangelicalism.


He did not become a believing Christian until his mid-twenties as a graduate student at the University of Toulouse in France.


Recommended reading from Dr. Woodbridge:


📘 Church History: From Christ to the Pre-Reformation by Everett Ferguson - https://www.amazon.com/Church-History-One-Pre-Reformation-Intellectual/dp/0310205808


📘 Historical Theology by Gregg Allison - https://www.amazon.com/Historical-Theology-Introduction-Christian-Doctrine/dp/0310230136


📘 The Story of Christianity by Justo González - https://www.amazon.com/Story-Christianity-Vol-Church-Reformation/dp/006185588X


📘 The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World by Stephen J. Nichols - https://www.amazon.com/Reformation-Monk-Mallet-Changed-World/dp/1581348290


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