Confessing history : explorations in Christian faith and the historian's vocation /

Confessing history : explorations in Christian faith and the historian's vocation / edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller. - Notre Dame, Ind. : Univerity of Notre Dame Press, c2010. - xvi, 354 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780268029036 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0268029032 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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History--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Christian historians--Intellectual life.

BR 115 .H5 / C59 2010