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  • Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation
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  • edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller
  • 2010
  • Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
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At the end of his landmark 1994 book, The Soul of the American University, historian George Marsden asserted that religious faith does indeed have a place in today’s academia. Marsden’s contention sparked a heated debate on the role of religious faith and intellectual scholarship in academic journals and in the mainstream media. The contributors to Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation expand the discussion about religion’s role in education and culture and examine what the relationship between faith and learning means for the academy today.

The contributors to Confessing History ask how the vocation of historian affects those who are also followers of Christ. What implications do Christian faith and practice have for living out one’s calling as an historian? And to what extent does one’s calling as a Christian disciple speak to the nature, quality, or goals of one’s work as scholar, teacher, adviser, writer, community member, or social commentator? Written from several different theological and professional points of view, the essays collected in this volume explore the vocation of the historian and its place in both the personal and professional lives of Christian disciples.

Table of Contents

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-ix
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. xi-xvi
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  1. Introduction: A Tradition Renewed? The Challenge of a Generation
  2. pp. 1-19
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  1. Part One: Identity
  2. pp. 21-80
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  1. 1. Faith Seeking Historical Understanding
  2. pp. 23-38
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  1. 2. Not All Autobiography Is Scholarship: Thinking, as a Catholic, about History
  2. pp. 39-59
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  1. 3. Seeing Things: Knowledge and Love in History
  2. pp. 60-80
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  1. Part Two: Theory and Method
  2. pp. 81-213
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  1. 4. Virtue Ethics and Historical Inquiry: The Case of Prudence
  2. pp. 83-100
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  1. 5. The “Objectivity Question” and the Historian’s Vocation
  2. pp. 101-127
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  1. 6. Enlightenment History, Objectivity, and the Moral Imagination
  2. pp. 128-152
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  1. 7. On Assimilating the Moral Insights of the Secular Academy
  2. pp. 153-167
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  1. 8. After Monographs: A Critique of Christian Scholarship as Professional Practice
  2. pp. 168-186
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  1. 9. The Problems of Preaching through History
  2. pp. 187-213
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  1. Part Three: Communities
  2. pp. 215-315
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  1. 10. Coming to Terms with Lincoln: Christian Faith and Moral Reflection in the History Classroom
  2. pp. 217-232
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  1. 11. For Teachers to Live, Professors Must Die: A Sermon on the Mount
  2. pp. 233-261
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  1. 12. Public Reasoning by Historical Analogy: Some Christian Reflections
  2. pp. 262-279
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  1. 13. Don’t Forget the Church: Reflections on the Forgotten Dimension of Our Dual Calling
  2. pp. 280-298
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  1. 14. On the Vocation of Historians to the Priesthood of Believers: A Plea to Christians in the Academy
  2. pp. 299-315
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  1. Afterword: The Christian Historian and the Idea of Progress
  2. pp. 316-344
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 345-348
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 349-354
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