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Church history in an age of uncertainty : historiographical patterns in the United States, 1906-1990 / Henry Warner Bowden.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, �1991.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585029601
  • 9780585029603
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Church history in an age of uncertainty.DDC classification:
  • 270/.072073 20
LOC classification:
  • BR138 .B685 1991eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index.

Print version record.

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.

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.

English.

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