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Assisting the word by making (up) history: Luke's project and ours
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The project of the first Christian historian stands as a parable of the successes and failures of all subsequent attempts to provide a reliable basis for faith by constructing a history right down to our own postmodern struggles. Though we lack Luke's confidence, we cannot escape the necessity of making up the best history we can in order to "assist the Logos of God."
My early theological position was shaped largely by that ecumenical family of interpretive strategies that came to be known as the Biblical Theology Movement, and at its center was the conviction that history was the primary ...
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History as a Theological Issue
; History as a Theological Issue. By Nico T. Bakker. Translated by...98.00. The quest to discover the redemptive essence of history in contemporary theological discussion is undertaken in...crisis in theological studies. If a redemptive "essence" in history is to be found, it is in the Hebrew concept of ...
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History and computers: the views from selected social studies journal.
; History is a method, a particular way, of studying the record of human experience. It is also a body of information ... basic...other branch of learning (Handlin 1967, 8). This statement comprises three essential aspects of the definition of history: history as the past itself, history as a body of ...
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History and Theory.(Review)
; History and Theory Contemporary Readings Edited by Brian Fay, Philip Pomper and Richard...16.99 [pounds sterling] (pb) ISBN 0-63120952-2. THE STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE of history as depicted in this collection comes largely from the pages of the journal History & Theory. Of the nineteen contributions ...
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Where does history come from? Alun Munslow argues that the centrality of narrative to history undermines empirical views of the subject. (Today's History).
; WHERE DOES HISTORY come from? This may seem like an odd question. Surely history comes from the traces of the past that historians...in another way. What happens if we choose to view history as what, from one perspective at least, it plainly...
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History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory.(Book Review)
; History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory. By Dominick...that forced us to understand the tropological dimension of history and historical writing, the world of the historian and...linked. White's book not only marked a clear divide between history as what happened and history as ...
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Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America
; History is the realm of the singular and the unrepeatable, not because this is the logic of time but because it is the realm of human freedom. History is another name for freedom actualizing itself. Nature has no history, although it is in time and one can speak of the age of mountains, forests, seas, and...
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What made us British? Hugh Williams describes how he and his colleagues set about compiling a list of fifty significant 'things' that have helped to shape Britain and the British.(TODAY'S HISTORY)(Essay)
; History's ten worst days, fifty greatest leaders, 100 most famous battles, 1001 days that changed...on coming. This autumn sees a new one with the launch of a television series on the History Channel entitled Fifty Things You Need To Know About British History. The phrase 'need to know' is a deliberate ...
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History in language, language in history.
; Often where history is utterly dumb concerning the past, language...of language as the privileged site of history and the primary locus for the enunciation...undermine the Christian conception of history. But soon, the discovery of language also...
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Culture, identity and the politicising of school history in the U.S.A.
; History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past Gary Nash, Charlotte Crabtree & Ross Dunn Alfred Knopf, New York, 1887 ISBN: 0 678 44687 7 If the battles over school history tell us anything, it is that history is not value free, it is inextricably bound to notions of cultural transmission, ...
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Deconstructing History and Hitler
; MAKING HISTORY By Stephen Fry Random House. 380 pp...thought I'd written the novel "Making History" just a few years back. It was pretty...vanity possible around the idea of "making history." Graduate student Michael Young is really...
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