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Patterns in History - A Christian Perspective on Historical Thought (Hardcover)
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Patterns in History - A Christian Perspective on Historical Thought (Hardcover)
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In this concise volume, historian David Bebbington offers a summary
of various theories of history from ancient times down to the
present. Patterns in History provides Christian students of history
with a trusted guidein what Mark Noll has described as "the best
evangelical introduction to the history of history writing." The
updated and expanded fourth edition contains a new chapter on
postmodern history, making an already important book even more
essential. Bebbington begins by asking "what is history?" He
organizes his answer, and the book, around the interplay between
history as the historical process (how it has been understood and
interpreted in the past) and historiography (the account of the
past written by historians). In six chapters Bebbington describes
and evaluates each of what he identifies as the main schools of
thought about the nature and meaning of the historical process:
cyclical history, Christian history, the idea of progress,
historicism, Marxist history, and postmodern history. Bebbington
analyzes theories of historiography before returning to the
question of meaning in history. He argues that Christianity offers
scholarly, as well as religious, answers to questions and
contradictions that abound in both areas. By assessing how the
Christian philosophy of history parallels, informs, and corrects
secular theories, Bebbington suggests a chastened way forward for
Christian historians. Even as they must acknowledge and wrestle
with the complexities of the human story, Christian historians come
to the task with an understanding of history as the realm of
providence and purpose. Whether that conviction is implicit or
explicit in the historian's writing, it is the distinctive element
of faithful historical analysis.
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