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The shape of the past : a Christian response to secular philosophies of history

Title
The shape of the past : a Christian response to secular philosophies of history / John Warwick Montgomery.
Author
Montgomery, John Warwick.
Publication
Minneapolis : Bethany Fellowship, ©1975.

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Description
390 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
"Dr. Montogomery contends that one can "sit in a house by side of the road and watch the world go by". Everyone is caught up in the flux of human life, and there is no naturalistic resting place within human history from which one can gain a universal, absolute perspective on man's life. Christianity is the only answer to this basic human predicament, for it claims, and by the resurrection backs up its claim, that there is a God and that He entered human history and revealed its essential nature.". --Publisher.
Subject
  • Historiography
  • History > Philosophy
  • History > Religious aspects > Christianity
  • Histoire > Aspect religieux > Christianisme
  • Historiography
  • History > Philosophy
  • History > Religious aspects > Christianity
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part 1. Philosophical historiography -- 1. History and historiography -- 2. History as time travel -- 3. The Classical-Christian heritage in historical writing -- 4. Modern historical thought -- 5. The Christian answer -- part 2. Critical and epistemological essays -- 1. Vico and the Christian faith -- 2. The importance of a materialistic metaphysic to Marxist thought and an examination of its truth value -- 3. Constructive religious empiricism: an analysis and criticism -- 4. A critique of William James' Varieties of religious experience -- 5. The dependability and value of the extant gospel manuscripts / E. J. Barnes -- 6. The Petrine theory evaluated by philology and logic -- 7. A critical examination of Emil Brunner's The divine imperative, Bk. III -- History, public or private?: A defense of John Warwick Montgomery's philosophy of history.
ISBN
  • 0871235358
  • 9780871235350
LCCN
75026651
OCLC
  • ocm02076276
  • 2076276
  • SCSB-338094
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library