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Author Bowden, Henry Warner

Title Church history in an age of uncertainty : historiographical patterns in the United States, 1906-1990 / Henry Warner Bowden
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages)
Contents A fresh start: continuity with innovations -- The end of scientific objectivity, the emergence of new apologetics -- Higher ecclesiology as a basis for history -- Searches for consensus and a common past -- Intellectual history and the history of ideas -- Syntheses and new explorations -- Exemplary scholarship in the penultimate decade -- Overview
Summary Essential to Catholic, Protestant, and even secular scholars of American religious history this is the first historiographical analysis of the work of Henry K. Rowe, James H. Nichols, Leonard J. Trinterud, H. Shelton Smith, John T. McNeill, Herbert W. Schneider, Robert T. Handy, John T. Ellis, and Jaroslav Pelikan. Aware that every generation rewrites history, Bowden bases his investigation of major twentieth-century church historians on two questions: Why are young historians dissatisfied with earlier treatments? What leads them to believe their version is better? Henry Warner Bowden's extensive bibliography includes A Century of Church History: The Legacy of Philip Schaff
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index
Notes English
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Subject Church history -- Historiography -- History -- 20th century
Church historians -- United States
Church -- Historiography -- 20th century
church historians.
RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Church historians
Church history -- Historiography
Kerkgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Geschiedschrijving.
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Christianity.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 90034008
ISBN 0585029601
9780585029603