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- Title
THE WRONG QUESTION! PLEASE CHANGE THE SUBJECT!
- Authors
Hollinger, David A.
- Abstract
The author reflects on the role of historians' religious beliefs in the practice of religious history. His article responds to the essays “Mormon History Inside Out” by Richard Lyman Bushman, “Historians’ Metaphysical Beliefs and the Writing of Confessional Histories” by Brad S. Gregory, and “Coming to Terms as a Christian Historian with F. H. Bradley” by Mark A. Noll. According to the author, historians should not preface their works with statements of their own personal beliefs, lest these disclosures make readers skeptical of an otherwise reliable and informative piece of scholarship. It is suggested that an emphasis on supernatural causation will drive historians with secular worldviews away from the field.
- Subjects
HISTORY -- Religious aspects; SUBJECTIVITY in historiography; HISTORICAL research methods; PHILOSOPHY of history; HISTORIANS; RELIGION historians; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Fides et Historia, 2011, Vol 43, Issue 2, p34
- ISSN
0884-5379
- Publication type
Article