A distillation of the thought and research to which Herbert
Butterfield devoted the last twenty years of his life to, this
book, originally published in 1981, traces how differently people
understood the relevance of their past and its connection with
their religion. It examines ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia; the
political perceptiveness of the Hittites; the Jewish sense of God
in history, of promise and fulfilment; the classical achievement of
scientific history; and the unique Chinese tradition of historical
writing. The author explains the problems of the early Christians
in relating their traditions of Jesus to their life and faith and
the emergence, when Christianity became the religion of the Roman
Empire, of a new historical understanding. The book then charts the
gradual growth of a sceptical approach to recorded authority in
Islam and Western Europe, the reconstruction of the past by
deductive analysis of the surviving evidence and the secularisation
of the eighteenth century.
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