THE CONFERENCE OF FAITH AND HISTORY AT FIFTY: COMMENTARY FROM THE CALVIN COLLEGE MEETING
HISTORY AND FAITH IN ANXIOUS TIMES Writing history with the eyes of faith is a craft, a work of art requiring knowledge, study, and sacred imagination. During these anxious times, and as the Conference of Faith and History marks its first half century, our challenge-and reward-is creating scholarshi...
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| Published in: | Fides et historia 2019-01, Vol.51 (1), p.18-27 |
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| Summary: | HISTORY AND FAITH IN ANXIOUS TIMES Writing history with the eyes of faith is a craft, a work of art requiring knowledge, study, and sacred imagination. During these anxious times, and as the Conference of Faith and History marks its first half century, our challenge-and reward-is creating scholarship that engages both mind and soul, bringing new life to old stories and welcoming others to engage the past in all its mystery and complexity. What do we have to say at this moment, not just to people in evangelical institutions, but agnostics, Hindus, and Roman Catholics, bus drivers and parking lot attendants, merchant sailors and astronauts, desk jockeys and administrative assistants? A lot has changed since a group of scholarly Christians-Dick Pierard, Robert Lindner, Robert Clouse, Richard Millett, lots of Wheaton people, and of course the Grand Rapids Dutch mafia-founded this organization. The Conference on Faith and History became not just a "safe space," but a place where people could be fully "out"-where they could test run outrageous ideas with trusted, thoughtful peers, out of earshot of the secular guardians of the profession. |
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| ISSN: | 0884-5379 |