Christianity and history : essays / by E. Harris Harbinson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1964.Description: viii, 292 p. ; 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 270.09 H255C
LOC classification:
  • BR115.H5 H37
Contents:
The Christian understanding of history -- Religious perspectives of college teaching: history -- The "meaning of history" and the writing of history -- Divine purpose and human history -- The aims and hopes of mankind in the light of advancing science: an historian's view -- Liberal education and Christian education -- The problem of the Christian historian: a critique of Arnold J. Toynbee -- Christianity in history: the Protestant Reformation -- The Protestant Reformation -- Freedom in western thought -- Will versus reason: the dilemma of the Reformation in historical perspective -- The intellectual as social reformer: Machiavelli and Thomas More -- The idea of utility in the thought of John Calvin (with a discussion by J.T. McNeill) -- Calvin's sense of history.
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The Christian understanding of history -- Religious perspectives of college teaching: history -- The "meaning of history" and the writing of history -- Divine purpose and human history -- The aims and hopes of mankind in the light of advancing science: an historian's view -- Liberal education and Christian education -- The problem of the Christian historian: a critique of Arnold J. Toynbee -- Christianity in history: the Protestant Reformation -- The Protestant Reformation -- Freedom in western thought -- Will versus reason: the dilemma of the Reformation in historical perspective -- The intellectual as social reformer: Machiavelli and Thomas More -- The idea of utility in the thought of John Calvin (with a discussion by J.T. McNeill) -- Calvin's sense of history.

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