History and the Christian Historian
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
This volume arises out of special concerns of historians who are also Christians. What case can be made for connecting historical work and religious convictions? What is the relation of faith to history? What difference could Christian perspectives make in historical study?
Thirteen respected scholars -- including some who have changed the face of history writing in the twentieth century -- here take up a diversity of subjects in giving a provisional answer to these important questions. In exploring foundational issues of perspective and theory, engaging discrete themes such as feminism, puritanism, and missiology, and discussing the application of religious insights in teaching history, this excellent collection of essays forthrightly addresses the “epistemological crisis” brought on by the postmodern critique of truth and demonstrates the positive implications of a Christian perspective for the study of history and historiography.
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- Explores foundational issues of perspective and theory.
- Studies themes such as feminism, puritanism, and missiology.
- Addresses the “epistemological crisis” brought on by the postmodern critique of truth.
- Introduction
- I. PERSPECTIVE AND THEORY
- What Difference Might Christian Perspectives Make?
- Between ‘‘Romance’’ and ‘‘True History’’: Historical Narrative and Truth Telling in a Postmodern Age
- Critical Historical Judgment and Biblical Faith
- History in Search of Meaning: The Conference on Faith and History
- II. DISCRETE THEMES AND SUBJECTS
- Men, Women, and God: Some Historiographical Issues
- The Potential of Missiology for the Crises of History
- Whose Story, Which Story? Memory and Identity among Baptists in the South
- Selves and Others in Early New England: Refashioning American Puritan Studies
- The Little White Church: Historiographical Revisions about Religion in Rural America
- Decoding Conflicted History: Religion and the Historiography on Northern Ireland
- III. APPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING HISTORY
- Teaching History, the Gospel, and the Postmodern Self
- Doing Justice in History: Using Narrative Frames Responsibly
- Christianity, History, and Multiculturalism
- Contributors
This volume is essential to anyone concerned with issues of historical theory as they relate to the possibility of Christian history. The presence of women contributors and the interaction with postmodern questions give this volume a unique cast and make it of special contemporary relevance.
—Andrews University Seminary Studies
History and the Christian Historian is a helpful work, a window on one segment of the community of modern historians. The authors consistently write clearly (not something to be taken for granted) and provide discussions useful to researchers beyond the bounds of their own religious sphere. The book should provoke helpful debate, among both Evangelical historians and all historians in general.
—H-Net