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The author reflects on the role of historians' religious beliefs in the practice of religious history. His article responds to the essays "Mormon History Inside Out" by Richard Lyman Bushman, "Historians’ Metaphysical Beliefs and the Writing of Confessional Histories" by Bra...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2011
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Fides et historia
Year: 2011, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 34-37 |
| Further subjects: | B
philosophy of history
B Attitude (Psychology) B Historians B History Religious aspects B Religion historians B Subjectivity in historiography B Historical research methods |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | The author reflects on the role of historians' religious beliefs in the practice of religious history. His article responds to the essays "Mormon History Inside Out" by Richard Lyman Bushman, "Historians’ Metaphysical Beliefs and the Writing of Confessional Histories" by Brad S. Gregory, and "Coming to Terms as a Christian Historian with F. H. Bradley" by Mark A. Noll. According to the author, historians should not preface their works with statements of their own personal beliefs, lest these disclosures make readers skeptical of an otherwise reliable and informative piece of scholarship. It is suggested that an emphasis on supernatural causation will drive historians with secular worldviews away from the field. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Fides et historia
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