Title: Confessing history : explorations in Christian faith and the historian's vocation /
Authors: Fea, John.; Green, Jay; Miller, Eric, 1966-
Publisher: Univerity of Notre Dame Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: History Religious aspects Christianity; Christian historians Intellectual life.
Abstract: The contributors to Confessing History ask how the vocation of historian affects those who are also followers of Christ. What implications do Christian faith and practice have for living out one's calling as an historian? And to what extent does one's calling as a Christian disciple speak to the nature, quality, or goals of one's work as scholar, teacher, adviser, writer, community member, or social commentator? Written from several different theological and professional points of view, the essays collected in this volume explore the vocation of the historian and its place in both the personal and professional lives of Christian disciples. --From publisher's description.
Contents: A tradition renewed? : the challenge of a generation / Eric Miller -- Faith seeking historical understanding / Mark R. Schwehn -- Not all autobiography is scholarship : thinking, as a Catholic, about history / Una M. Cadegan -- Seeing things : knowledge and love in history / Beth Barton Schweiger -- Virtue ethics and historical inquiry : the case of prudence / Thomas Albert Howard -- The "objectivity question" and the historian's vocation / William Katerberg -- Enlightenment history, objectivity, and moral imagination / Michael Kugler -- On assimilating the moral insights of the secular academy / Bradley J. Gundlach -- After monographs : a critique of Christian scholarship as professional practice / Christopher Shannon -- The problems of preaching through history / James B. Lagrand -- Coming to terms with Lincoln : Christian faith and moral reflection in the history classroom / John Fea -- For teachers to live, professors must die : a sermon on the mount / Lendol Calder -- Public reasoning by historical analogy : some Christian reflections / Jay Green -- Don't forget about the church : reflections on the forgotten dimension of our dual calling / Robert Tracy McKenzie -- On the vocation of historians to the priesthood of believers : a plea to Christians in the academy / Douglas A. Sweeney -- The Christian historian and the idea of progress / Wilfred M. McClay.