Confessing History

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Eric Miller is associate professor of history at Geneva College. Book jacket.

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Preface	p. xi
Introduction: A Tradition Renewed? The Challenge of a Generation	p. 1
Identity
Faith Seeking Historical Understanding	p. 23
Not All Autobiography Is Scholarship: Thinking, as a Catholic, about History	p. 39
Seeing Things: Knowledge and Love in History	p. 60
Theory And Method
Virtue Ethics and Historical Inquiry: The Case of Prudence	p. 83
The "Objectivity Question" and the Historian's Vocation	p. 101
Enlightenment History, Objectivity, and the Moral Imagination	p. 128
On Assimilating the Moral Insights of the Secular Academy	p. 153
After Monographs: A Critique of Christian Scholarship as Professional Practice	p. 168
The Problems of Preaching through History	p. 187
Communities
Coming to Terms with Lincoln: Christian Faith and Moral Reflection in the History Classroom	p. 217
For Teachers to Live, Professors Must Die: A Sermon on the Mount	p. 233
Public Reasoning by Historical Analogy: Some Christian Reflections	p. 262
Don't Forget the Church: Reflections on the Forgotten Dimension of our Dual Calling	p. 280
On the Vocation of Historians to the Priesthood of Believers: A Plea to Christians in the Academy	p. 299
Afterword: The Christian Historian and the Idea of Progress	p. 316
Contributors	p. 345
Index	p. 349
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