Taking the Long View

Zusatztext David Steinmetz is one of our most distinguished Reformation historians, with an enviable track record of explaining the complexities of the period with elegant clarity. ... This colelction of essays, mostly light-footnoted, is directed to an American Protestant churchgoing audience, but will much profit many beyond that constituency, including undergraduates beginning to study the period. Informationen zum Autor Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of the History of Christianity, Duke Divinity School; editor of the Oxford Studies in Historical Theology series Klappentext Taking the Long View argues in a series of engagingly written essays that remembering the past is essential for men and women who want to function effectively in the present--for without some knowledge of their own past, neither individuals nor institutions know where they have been or where they are going. The book illustrates its thesis with tough-minded examples from the Church's life and thought, ranging from more abstract problems like the theoretical role of historical criticism to such painfully concrete issues as the commandment of Jesus to forgive unforgivable wrongs. Zusammenfassung Church historian and op-ed writer David Steinmetz examines problems in the present by using the perspective the past affords - primarily, though not exclusively, the church's past.

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Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of the History of Christianity, Duke Divinity School; editor of the Oxford Studies in Historical Theology series

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Taking the Long View argues in a series of engagingly written essays that remembering the past is essential for men and women who want to function effectively in the present--for without some knowledge of their own past, neither individuals nor institutions know where they have been or where they are going. The book illustrates its thesis with tough-minded examples from the Church's life and thought, ranging from more abstract problems like the theoretical role of historical criticism to such painfully concrete issues as the commandment of Jesus to forgive unforgivable wrongs.

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Church historian and op-ed writer David Steinmetz examines problems in the present by using the perspective the past affords - primarily, though not exclusively, the church's past.