ABSTRACT
This first chapter is an attempt to examine the relationship between people and history; more particularly when a group of people come up against one of the apparent main strands of history. In this case this chapter looks at a group of academics who strove to discuss the nature of Protestantism with some degree of professionalism even though they realised that the issue was crucial and central to the survival of Protestant worship. It is necessary to set out something of the background to this debate.
