Christianity and History : : Essays / / Elmore Harris Harbison.
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 con...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1964 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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