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Harbison Elmore Harris |
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Christianity and history / / essays by E. Harris Harbinson |
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Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 1964 |
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©1964 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (303 p.) |
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History - Religious aspects - Christianity |
History - Philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Bibliographical footnotes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. THE CHRISTIAN UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY -- 1. Religious Perspectives of College Teaching: History -- 2. The "Meaning of History" and the Writing of History -- 3. Divine Purpose and Human History -- 4. The Aims and Hopes of Mankind in the Light of Advancing Science: an Historian's View -- 5. Liberal Education and Christian Education -- 6. The Problem of the Christian Historian: a Critique of Arnold J, Toynbee -- II. CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY: THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION -- 7. The Protestant Reformation -- 8. Freedom in Western Thought -- 9. Will versus Reason: the Dilemma of the Reformation in Historical Perspective -- 10. The Intellectual as Social Reformer: Machiavelli and Thomas More -- 11. The Idea of Utility in the Thought of John Calvin (with a discussion by J. T. McNeill) -- 12. Calvin's Sense of History -- INDEX |
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In Part I of Christianity and History, the author asks whether the committed Christian should be more conscious than the uncommitted of some meaning in history. In answering this he offers a critique of Arnold Toynbee and makes some penetrating observations on the teaching of history. Part II is concerned with the author's special field-the Protestant Reformation and its origins. Calvinism, with its dynamic sense of the historical process, receives special treatment, and there is a brilliant essay on Machiavelli and Thomas More. Three of the essays |
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