The Plain Truth About The Waldensians - Chapter I - 1974

Dean C Blackwell

"The history of the ancient Waldenses certainly remains to be written," said Emilio Comba in the preface to his History of the Waldenses of Italy. This is certainly one of the most absolute truths to any student of Waldensian history. Has there ever been written an unprejudiced history of these people? The Catholics carelessly lump all heretics together, intermix their doctrinal beliefs, and falsely accuse them of all types of immoralities and practices. Protestants each try to pick the bones of the carcass to find suggestions and hints or similarities that they were truly their ancestors, so as to not have to acknowledge a Catholic mother church at any time since the apostles. One Baptist historian, Vedder, says that the Baptist historians, at one time or another, have tried to trace their history through nearly every offshoot from the Catholic church. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library