TY - BOOK AU - Bowden,Henry Warner TI - Church history in an age of uncertainty: historiographical patterns in the United States, 1906-1990 SN - 0585029601 AV - BR138 .B685 1991eb U1 - 270/.072073 20 PY - 1991/// CY - Carbondale PB - Southern Illinois University Press KW - Church history KW - Historiography KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Church historians KW - United States KW - RELIGION KW - Christian Church KW - bisacsh KW - Christianity KW - fast KW - Kerkgeschiedenis (wetenschap) KW - gtt KW - Geschiedschrijving KW - Religion KW - hilcc KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Verenigde Staten KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index; A fresh start: continuity with innovations -- The end of scientific objectivity, the emergence of new apologetics -- Higher ecclesiology as a basis for history -- Searches for consensus and a common past -- Intellectual history and the history of ideas -- Syntheses and new explorations -- Exemplary scholarship in the penultimate decade -- Overview N2 - Essential to Catholic, Protestant, and even secular scholars of American religious history this is the first historiographical analysis of the work of Henry K. Rowe, James H. Nichols, Leonard J. Trinterud, H. Shelton Smith, John T. McNeill, Herbert W. Schneider, Robert T. Handy, John T. Ellis, and Jaroslav Pelikan. Aware that every generation rewrites history, Bowden bases his investigation of major twentieth-century church historians on two questions: Why are young historians dissatisfied with earlier treatments? What leads them to believe their version is better? Henry Warner Bowden{u2019}s extensive bibliography includes A Century of Church History: The Legacy of Philip Schaff UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2265 ER -