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Confessing history : explorations in Christian faith and the historian's vocation / edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller

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Notre Dame, Ind. : Univerity of Notre Dame Press, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
xvi, 354 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Fea, John, Green, Jay (Jay D.), and Miller, Eric, 1966-

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Contents
Introduction A Tradition Renewed? The Challenge of a Generation / Eric Miller -- Part One. IDENTITY -- One. Faith Seeking Historical Understanding / Mark R. Schwehn -- Two. Not All Autobiography is Scholarship: Thinking, as a Catholic, about History / Una M. Cadegan -- Three. Seeing Things: Knowledge and Love in History / Beth Barton Schweiger -- Part Two. THEORY AND METHOD -- Four. Virtue Ethics and Historical Inquiry: The Case of Prudence / Thomas Albert Howard -- Five. The "Objectivity Question" and the Historian's Vocation / William Katerberg -- Six. Enlightenment History, Objectivity, and the Moral Imagination / Michael Kugler -- Seven. On Assimilating the Moral Insights of the Secular Academy / Bradley J. Gundlach -- Eight. After Monographs: A Critique of Christian Scholarship as Professional Practice / Christopher Shannon -- Nine. The Problems of Preaching through History / James B. Lagrand -- Part Three. COMMUNITIES -- Ten. Coming to Terms with Lincoln: Christian Faith and Moral Reflection in the History Classroom / John Fea -- Eleven. For Teachers to Live, Professors Must Die: A Sermon on the Mount / Lendol Calder -- Twelve. Public Reasoning by Historical Analogy: Some Christian Reflections / Jay Green -- Thirteen. Don't Forget the Church: Reflections on the Forgotten Dimension of our Dual Calling / Robert Tracy McKenzie -- Fourteen. On the Vocation of Historians to the Priesthood of Believers: A Plea to Christians in the Academy / Douglas A. Sweeney -- Afterword The Christian Historian and the Idea of Progress / Wilfred M. McClay.
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ISBN
9780268029036 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0268029032 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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