Ends and Means in Church History

Presidents of our Society have usually delivered annual addresses based on some aspect of their research interests. Few of these customary presentations (13 of 80) have self-consciously grappled with questions of method, definition, or interpretation in the larger context of historiographical concerns. My effort tries to honor both precedents, reporting on my current studies of twentieth-century American church historians while making some normative observations on perennially difficult philosophical problems, particularly those dealing with sacred references in a secular framework. Some of you might think that speaking to historians about historical procedures comes close to violating the injunction in Exodus 23:19 against boiling a kid in its mother's milk. But I suggest that such an exercise is beneficial because all of us can derive greater professional awareness from surveying the options found in scholarly practices past and present

Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Historiography · Honor · Interpretation (philosophy) · Normative · Political science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Catholicism and Religious Studies · History · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy

• Writing African History in a Global World

  Jean Luc Enyegue•Interreligious Studies and…•2021

  Incluir item