Church history in an age of uncertainty : historiographical patterns in the United States, 1906-1990 /

Church history in an age of uncertainty : historiographical patterns in the United States, 1906-1990 /

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Author / Creator:	Bowden, Henry Warner.
Imprint:	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1991.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Church history -- Historiography -- History -- 20th century. Church historians -- United States. Church historians. Church history -- Historiography. United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11100039

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ISBN:	0585029601 9780585029603
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Bowden, Henry Warner. Church history in an age of uncertainty. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1991 0809316218

Table of 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.