Thomas Albert Howard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1099780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Albert Howard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas Albert |
| FAMILY NAME | Howard |
| SIGNATURE | HOWARD T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gordon College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1146-0323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History
A sweeping history of the violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secularism in the twentieth century A popular truism derived from the Enlightenment holds that violence is somehow inherent to religion, to which political secularism offers a liberating solution. But this assumption ignores a glaring modern reality: that putatively progressive regimes committed to secularism have possessed just as much and often a vastly …
Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History
A popular truism derived from the Enlightenment holds that violence is somehow inherent to religion, to which political secularism offers a liberating solution. But this assumption ignores a glaring modern reality: that putatively progressive regimes committed to secularism have possessed just as much and often a vastly greater capacity for violence as those tied to a religious identity. This book presents a powerful account of the misery, deaths…
Red Asia
This chapter addresses the implications of Maoism and the Communist triumph in Asia for religious belief and practice. Not surprisingly, China receives the lion's share of attention, both directly before and after the Revolution of 1949 and especially during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76). The latter witnessed arguably the most furious assault on traditional religious practices in world history, not only across China but also in the Chinese-oc…
Modern Historiography in the Making: The German Sense of the Past, 1700-1900
The Faiths of Others: A History of Interreligious Dialogue
In recent decades, organizations committed to interreligious or interfaith dialogue have proliferated, both in the Western and non-Western worlds. Why, how so, and what exactly is interreligious dialogue? These are the touchstone questions of this book, the first major history of interreligious dialogue in the modern age. The book narrates and analyzes several key turning points in the history of interfaith dialogue before examining, in the concl…
The Faiths of Others: A History of Interreligious Dialogue
A Remarkable Gathering”: The Conference on Living Religions within the British Empire (1924) and Its Historical Significance
This article provides the first significant scholarly treatment of “The Conference on Some Living Religions within the British Empire,” which took place between September 22 and October 2, 1924, in conjunction with the British Empire Exhibition of 1924. An unprecedented event in Britain’s history, the conference brought numerous scholars and “holy men of the Empire” to London. As a catalyst for the modern study of religion, the conference merits …
The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age
The pope and the professor" tells the captivating story of the German Catholic theologian and historian Ignaz von Döllinger (1799-1890), who fiercely opposed the teaching of Papal Infallibility at the time of the First Vatican Council (1869-70), convened by Pope Pius IX (r. 1846-1878), among the most controversial popes in the history of the papacy. Döllinger's thought, his opposition to the Council, his high-profile excommunication in 1871, and …
Remembering the Reformation: An Inquiry into the Meanings of Protestantism
The 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 focuses the mind on the history and significance of Protestant forms of Christianity. It also prompts the question of how the Reformation has been commemorated on past anniversary occasions. In an effort to examine various meanings attributed to Protestantism, this book recounts and analyzes major commemorative occasions, whether those marking the famous posting of the 95 Theses in 1517 or the birt…
God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the religious divide
Since the 18th-century Enlightenment, the United States and Western Europe's paths to modernity have diverged sharply with respect to religion. In short, Americans have maintained much friendlier ties with traditional forms of religion than their European counterparts. What explains this transatlantic religious divide? While the divide has received considerable commentary from journalists and sociologists in recent decades, this is the first majo…
Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England. By Timothy Larsen
Journal Article Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England. By Timothy Larsen Get access Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England. By Timothy Larsen. Oxford University Press, 2006. 317 pages. $110.00. Thomas Albert Howard Thomas Albert Howard Gordon College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 76, Issue…
Philip Schaff: Religion, Politics, and the Transatlantic World
The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Vol. 3: The English in West Africa, 1691–1699
Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University
Few institutions have been as influential as the German universities of the 19th century in shaping the modern academy and in setting the agenda of modern Christian theology. This book examines the rise of the modern German university from the standpoint of the Protestant theological faculty, focusing on the University of Berlin (1810), Prussia’s flagship university in the 19th century. In contradistinction to historians of modern higher educatio…
Commentary — A “Religious Turn” in Modern European Historiography
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A "Religious Turn" in Modern European Historiography
24 Historically Speaking · June 2003 A "Religious Turn" in Modern European Historiography? Thomas Albert Howard In recent decades a promising new historiographical directionhas quiedyopened up. Religionhas resurfaced as a category worthy ofserious investigation byEuropean historians—and not just among medieval or early modern scholars, where religion's fortunes have never really suffered, but most strikinglyamongthose toilinginpresumably more bar…
Religion and the Rise of Historicism: W. M. L. de Wette, Jacob Burkhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness
Religion and the Rise of Historicism: W. M. L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness
This book offers an interpretation of the rise of secular historical thought in nineteenth-century Europe. Instead of characterizing 'historicism' and 'secularization' as fundamental breaks with Europe's religious heritage, they are presented as complex cultural permutations with much continuity; for inherited theological patterns of interpreting experience determined to a large degree the conditions, possibilities and limitations of the forms of…
Historiographie im Umbruch
Jacob Burckhardt, Religion, and the Historiography of "Crisis" and "Transition
Jacob Burckhardt, Religion, and the Historiography of “Crisis” and “Transition” Thomas Albert Howard* A great historical subject, the representation of which should be the high point of a historian’s life, must cohere sympathetically and mysteriously to the author’s innermost being. Jacob Burckhardt 1 If you are to venture to interpret the past you can do so only out of the fullest exertion of the vigor of the present: only when you can put forth…
Nature Lost? Natural Science and the German Theological Traditions of the Nineteenth Century
Part I. The Historical Challenge of Religion and Science 1. Historiographical Approaches to German Religion and Science 2. The Shape of German Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century Part II. Nature Retained 3. The New Hegelian Faith of David Friedrich Strauss 4. Otto Zockler, the Orthodox School, and the Problem of Creation 5. Rudolf Schmid and the Reconciliation of Science and Religion Part III. Nature Lost 6. Wilhelm Hermann's Encounter …
God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the religious divide
Since the 18th-century Enlightenment, the United States and Western Europe's paths to modernity have diverged sharply with respect to religion. In short, Americans have maintained much friendlier ties with traditional forms of religion than their European counterparts. What explains this transatlantic religious divide? While the divide has received considerable commentary from journalists and sociologists in recent decades, this is the first majo…
A "Religious Turn" in Modern European Historiography
24 Historically Speaking · June 2003 A "Religious Turn" in Modern European Historiography? Thomas Albert Howard In recent decades a promising new historiographical directionhas quiedyopened up. Religionhas resurfaced as a category worthy ofserious investigation byEuropean historians—and not just among medieval or early modern scholars, where religion's fortunes have never really suffered, but most strikinglyamongthose toilinginpresumably more bar…
Commentary — A “Religious Turn” in Modern European Historiography
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Jacob Burckhardt, Religion, and the Historiography of "Crisis" and "Transition
Jacob Burckhardt, Religion, and the Historiography of “Crisis” and “Transition” Thomas Albert Howard* A great historical subject, the representation of which should be the high point of a historian’s life, must cohere sympathetically and mysteriously to the author’s innermost being. Jacob Burckhardt 1 If you are to venture to interpret the past you can do so only out of the fullest exertion of the vigor of the present: only when you can put forth…
Nature Lost? Natural Science and the German Theological Traditions of the Nineteenth Century
Part I. The Historical Challenge of Religion and Science 1. Historiographical Approaches to German Religion and Science 2. The Shape of German Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century Part II. Nature Retained 3. The New Hegelian Faith of David Friedrich Strauss 4. Otto Zockler, the Orthodox School, and the Problem of Creation 5. Rudolf Schmid and the Reconciliation of Science and Religion Part III. Nature Lost 6. Wilhelm Hermann's Encounter …
Religion and the Rise of Historicism: W. M. L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness
This book offers an interpretation of the rise of secular historical thought in nineteenth-century Europe. Instead of characterizing 'historicism' and 'secularization' as fundamental breaks with Europe's religious heritage, they are presented as complex cultural permutations with much continuity; for inherited theological patterns of interpreting experience determined to a large degree the conditions, possibilities and limitations of the forms of…
Historiographie im Umbruch
Jacob Burckhardt, Religion, and the Historiography of "Crisis" and "Transition
Jacob Burckhardt, Religion, and the Historiography of “Crisis” and “Transition” Thomas Albert Howard* A great historical subject, the representation of which should be the high point of a historian’s life, must cohere sympathetically and mysteriously to the author’s innermost being. Jacob Burckhardt 1 If you are to venture to interpret the past you can do so only out of the fullest exertion of the vigor of the present: only when you can put forth…
Religion and the Rise of Historicism: W. M. L. de Wette, Jacob Burkhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness
A "Religious Turn" in Modern European Historiography
24 Historically Speaking · June 2003 A "Religious Turn" in Modern European Historiography? Thomas Albert Howard In recent decades a promising new historiographical directionhas quiedyopened up. Religionhas resurfaced as a category worthy ofserious investigation byEuropean historians—and not just among medieval or early modern scholars, where religion's fortunes have never really suffered, but most strikinglyamongthose toilinginpresumably more bar…
The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Vol. 3: The English in West Africa, 1691–1699
Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University
Few institutions have been as influential as the German universities of the 19th century in shaping the modern academy and in setting the agenda of modern Christian theology. This book examines the rise of the modern German university from the standpoint of the Protestant theological faculty, focusing on the University of Berlin (1810), Prussia’s flagship university in the 19th century. In contradistinction to historians of modern higher educatio…
Commentary — A “Religious Turn” in Modern European Historiography
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Philip Schaff: Religion, Politics, and the Transatlantic World
Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England. By Timothy Larsen
Journal Article Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England. By Timothy Larsen Get access Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England. By Timothy Larsen. Oxford University Press, 2006. 317 pages. $110.00. Thomas Albert Howard Thomas Albert Howard Gordon College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 76, Issue…
God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the religious divide
Since the 18th-century Enlightenment, the United States and Western Europe's paths to modernity have diverged sharply with respect to religion. In short, Americans have maintained much friendlier ties with traditional forms of religion than their European counterparts. What explains this transatlantic religious divide? While the divide has received considerable commentary from journalists and sociologists in recent decades, this is the first majo…
Remembering the Reformation: An Inquiry into the Meanings of Protestantism
The 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 focuses the mind on the history and significance of Protestant forms of Christianity. It also prompts the question of how the Reformation has been commemorated on past anniversary occasions. In an effort to examine various meanings attributed to Protestantism, this book recounts and analyzes major commemorative occasions, whether those marking the famous posting of the 95 Theses in 1517 or the birt…
The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age
The pope and the professor" tells the captivating story of the German Catholic theologian and historian Ignaz von Döllinger (1799-1890), who fiercely opposed the teaching of Papal Infallibility at the time of the First Vatican Council (1869-70), convened by Pope Pius IX (r. 1846-1878), among the most controversial popes in the history of the papacy. Döllinger's thought, his opposition to the Council, his high-profile excommunication in 1871, and …
A Remarkable Gathering”: The Conference on Living Religions within the British Empire (1924) and Its Historical Significance
This article provides the first significant scholarly treatment of “The Conference on Some Living Religions within the British Empire,” which took place between September 22 and October 2, 1924, in conjunction with the British Empire Exhibition of 1924. An unprecedented event in Britain’s history, the conference brought numerous scholars and “holy men of the Empire” to London. As a catalyst for the modern study of religion, the conference merits …
The Faiths of Others: A History of Interreligious Dialogue
In recent decades, organizations committed to interreligious or interfaith dialogue have proliferated, both in the Western and non-Western worlds. Why, how so, and what exactly is interreligious dialogue? These are the touchstone questions of this book, the first major history of interreligious dialogue in the modern age. The book narrates and analyzes several key turning points in the history of interfaith dialogue before examining, in the concl…
The Faiths of Others: A History of Interreligious Dialogue
Modern Historiography in the Making: The German Sense of the Past, 1700-1900
Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History
A sweeping history of the violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secularism in the twentieth century A popular truism derived from the Enlightenment holds that violence is somehow inherent to religion, to which political secularism offers a liberating solution. But this assumption ignores a glaring modern reality: that putatively progressive regimes committed to secularism have possessed just as much and often a vastly …
Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History
A popular truism derived from the Enlightenment holds that violence is somehow inherent to religion, to which political secularism offers a liberating solution. But this assumption ignores a glaring modern reality: that putatively progressive regimes committed to secularism have possessed just as much and often a vastly greater capacity for violence as those tied to a religious identity. This book presents a powerful account of the misery, deaths…
Red Asia
This chapter addresses the implications of Maoism and the Communist triumph in Asia for religious belief and practice. Not surprisingly, China receives the lion's share of attention, both directly before and after the Revolution of 1949 and especially during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76). The latter witnessed arguably the most furious assault on traditional religious practices in world history, not only across China but also in the Chinese-oc…
History (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Religious studies (10 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Classics (7 works) · German (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (7 works)