Confessing History Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation

Name: Confessing History Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation
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ISBN: 9780268029036

ISBN-10: 0268029032

ISBN-13: 9780268029036

Edition: 2010

Authors: John Fea, Jay Green, Eric Miller

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The contributors to this title ask how the vocation of historian affects those who are also followers of Christ. Written from different theological and professional points of view, the essays collected explore the vocation of the historian and its place in both the personal and professional lives of Christian disciplines.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date: 11/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: A Tradition Renewed? The Challenge of a Generation




Identity



Faith Seeking Historical Understanding




Not All Autobiography Is Scholarship: Thinking, as a Catholic, about History




Seeing Things: Knowledge and Love in History




Theory And Method



Virtue Ethics and Historical Inquiry: The Case of Prudence




The "Objectivity Question" and the Historian's Vocation




Enlightenment History, Objectivity, and the Moral Imagination




On Assimilating the Moral Insights of the Secular Academy




After Monographs: A Critique of Christian Scholarship as Professional Practice




The Problems of Preaching through History




Communities



Coming to Terms with Lincoln: Christian Faith and Moral Reflection in the History Classroom




For Teachers to Live, Professors Must Die: A Sermon on the Mount




Public Reasoning by Historical Analogy: Some Christian Reflections




Don't Forget the Church: Reflections on the Forgotten Dimension of our Dual Calling




On the Vocation of Historians to the Priesthood of Believers: A Plea to Christians in the Academy



Afterword: The Christian Historian and the Idea of Progress



Contributors


Index