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In recent years, Mark Noll argues in the following essay, pressing questions of epistemology and interpretation "have swept even the out-of-the way landscapes that historians inhabit." Under assault on a number of fronts, the professional ideal of a scientifically detached writing of history has given way to more problematic and relativistic conceptions of the historians task. The essay claims that "this state of affairs presents a matter of pressing concern for all of us," because our assessments of the present, as well as our aspirations for the future, are inevitably tethered to our understanding of what we have been and whence we have come. After having surveyed the developments which have led to the present interpretive crisis in historiography, Professor Noll then proposes a Christian "strategy to meet the epistemological crisis." Mr. Noll teaches history at Wheaton College. |
| Bibliographic Information | | | Author : | Noll, Mark | | Title : | Traditional Christianity and the Possibility of Historical Knowledge.Christian Scholar's Review | | Publisher : | Christian Scholar's Review | | Copyright : | Permission to reproduce materials in the Christian Scholar's Review, beyond what is permitted as "fair use" under Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law, is granted only to classroom teachers, professors, and religious educators for nonprofit educational use. Copies of individual articles or reviews may be distributed for classroom use or course assignments, or placed on library reserve, provided (1) there is no charge to the ultimate user above the actual cost of copying, and (2) each copy includes full citation of source. All copyright permission requests should be sent to David Hoekema (dhoekema@legacy.calvin.edu) and should include the requester's postal mailing address. | | Publication Date : | June 1990 | | Resource Type : | article |
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