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Tag: history
Mistreating History
The Reformed Reader quotes Carl Trueman’s 2008 book, The Minority Report, on the two “disempowering” ways that churches approach history:
An idolatry of the new and the novel, with the concomitant disrespect for anything traditional; or a nostalgia for the past which is little more than an idolatry of the old and the traditional. Both are disempowering: the first leaves the church as a free-floating anarchic entity which is doomed to reinvent Christianity anew every Sunday, and prone to being subverted and taken over by any charismatic (in the non-theological sense!) leader or group which cares to flex its muscle; the second leaves the church bound to the past as its leaders care to write that past and thus unable to engage critically with her own tradition.
(h/t to Chris Armstrong at Grateful To The Dead) Continue Reading →
Normal predicaments of human divinity
Ann Neumann: Haaretz interviews Revealer contributing editor Scott Korb about his new book, “Life in Year One: What the World was Like in First-Century Palestine” and the challenges of writing Continue Reading →
“Like Moby-Dick Without the Whale”
Such is any attempt to talk about the whole of American history without talking about Jonathan Edwards, according to historian George Marsden, author of a one of The Revealer‘s favorite books of 2003, a biography Continue Reading →
"Like Moby-Dick Without the Whale"
Such is any attempt to talk about the whole of American history without talking about Jonathan Edwards, according to historian George Marsden, author of a one of The Revealer‘s favorite books of 2003, a biography Continue Reading →
"Like Moby-Dick Without the Whale"
Such is any attempt to talk about the whole of American history without talking about Jonathan Edwards, according to historian George Marsden, author of a one of The Revealer‘s favorite books of 2003, a biography Continue Reading →
Does History have Meaning?
The media elite answer. The Revealer reports. You decide! By Jeff Sharlet Does history have meaning? And if so, what does it have to do with tomorrow’s headlines? Most of the participants Continue Reading →