Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation

Contents

Contents Preface xi Introduction A Tradition Renewed? The Challenge of a Generation 1 Eric Miller Part One Identity One Faith Seeking Historical Understanding 23 Mark R. Schwehn Two Not All Autobiography Is Scholarship: Thinking, as a Catholic, about History 39 Una M. Cadegan Three Seeing Things: Knowledge and Love in History 60 Beth Barton Schweiger Part Two Theory and Method Four Virtue Ethics and Historical Inquiry: The Case of Prudence 83 Thomas Albert Howard Five The “Objectivity Question” and the Historian’s Vocation 101 William Katerberg Six Enlightenment History, Objectivity, and the Moral Imagination 128 Michael Kugler Seven On Assimilating the Moral Insights of the Secular Academy 153 Bradley J. Gundlach Eight After Monographs: A Critique of Christian Scholarship as Professional Practice 168 Christopher Shannon Nine The Problems of Preaching through History 187 James B. LaGrand Part Three Communities Ten Coming to Terms with Lincoln: Christian Faith and Moral Reflection in the History Classroom 217 John Fea Eleven For Teachers to Live, Professors Must Die: A Sermon on the Mount 233 Lendol Calder Twelve Public Reasoning by Historical Analogy: Some Christian Reflections 262 Jay Green Thirteen Don’t Forget the Church: Reflections on the Forgotten Dimension of our Dual Calling 280 Robert Tracy McKenzie viii   Contents Fourteen On the Vocation of Historians to the Priesthood of Believers: A Plea to Christians in the Academy 299 Douglas A. Sweeney Afterword The Christian Historian and the Idea of Progress 316 Wilfred M. McClay Contributors 345 Index 349 Contents   ix ...