Confessing History
by Fea, John; Green, Jay; Miller, EricFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-11-15
Publisher(s): Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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Summary
Eric Miller is associate professor of history at Geneva College. Book jacket.
Author Biography
John Fea is associate professor of American history at Messiah College. Jay Green is associate professor of history at Covenant College.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction: A Tradition Renewed? The Challenge of a Generation | p. 1 |
| Identity | |
| Faith Seeking Historical Understanding | p. 23 |
| Not All Autobiography Is Scholarship: Thinking, as a Catholic, about History | p. 39 |
| Seeing Things: Knowledge and Love in History | p. 60 |
| Theory And Method | |
| Virtue Ethics and Historical Inquiry: The Case of Prudence | p. 83 |
| The "Objectivity Question" and the Historian's Vocation | p. 101 |
| Enlightenment History, Objectivity, and the Moral Imagination | p. 128 |
| On Assimilating the Moral Insights of the Secular Academy | p. 153 |
| After Monographs: A Critique of Christian Scholarship as Professional Practice | p. 168 |
| The Problems of Preaching through History | p. 187 |
| Communities | |
| Coming to Terms with Lincoln: Christian Faith and Moral Reflection in the History Classroom | p. 217 |
| For Teachers to Live, Professors Must Die: A Sermon on the Mount | p. 233 |
| Public Reasoning by Historical Analogy: Some Christian Reflections | p. 262 |
| Don't Forget the Church: Reflections on the Forgotten Dimension of our Dual Calling | p. 280 |
| On the Vocation of Historians to the Priesthood of Believers: A Plea to Christians in the Academy | p. 299 |
| Afterword: The Christian Historian and the Idea of Progress | p. 316 |
| Contributors | p. 345 |
| Index | p. 349 |
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