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Kenneth L. Parker, Erick H. Moser - Rise of Historical Consciousness Among the Christian Churches, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Rise of Historical Consciousness Among the Christian Churches

Av Kenneth L. Parker, Erick H. Moser

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These essays emerged from papers presented under the auspices of the American Academy of Religion. The contributors explored cases that highlight the development of “historical consciousness” in diverse Christian traditions from the early sixteenth century to the early twentieth century. Topics considered range from Erasmus of Rotterdam and Richard Simon to nineteenth-century Anglicanism, Catholicism, and European and American Protestantism. Like a mosaic—with many disparate parts—definite patterns begin to emerge. First, the contributors demonstrate that historical consciousness grew out of Christian scholarship, not eighteenth-century enlightenment thought. Second, they highlight how historical scholarship implicitly asserted the scholar’s authority to critique cherished assumptions about Christian truth. Finally, the essays explore how ecclesiastical authorities reacted to these critiques as challenges to their spiritual authority. This volume contributes to scholarship that explores Christianity’s role in modernity, the ongoing implications of historical controversies, and the importance of history in Christian theology.
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Kenneth L. Parker is associate professor of theological studies at Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri. His research interests include John Henry Newman, the nature of historical theology, and the papal infallibility debates of the nineteenth century. Parker has published Tradition and Pluralism: Essays in Honor of William Shea (UPA, 2009), also part of the Studies in Religion and the Social Order series.Erick H. Moser is a Ph.D. candidate in historical theology at Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri. Moser is presently pursuing dissertation research on the life and contributions of Jean Daniélou, specifically focusing on his engagement with French intellectual and cultural currents during the first half of the twentieth century.

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This well written and scholarly book is a significant contribution to our understanding of the intra-denominational antagonisms of the past five centuries and of the major role which the development of historical consciousness within those denominations has played. That after so many centuries some major Christian denominations still lack historical perspective on their sacred documents and institutional structures astounds.

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