Journal Article

HISTORY, VIRTUE AND THE CONFERENCE ON FAITH AND HISTORY

Mullen, Shirley A

2005

Overview

[...]for those Christian historians working on subjects in religious or church history who want very consciously to be operating as light and salt in the academy, the American Society of Church History (or other organizations that deal with religious and church history subjects) might well be viewed as contexts that permit their lives and their work to have a greater impact for the Kingdom. [...]in understanding the context of our organization today compared with the context of the late 1960s, we need to recognize that there is also a changed atmosphere within conservative Christianity, as well as in the academy. [...]we are part of the community of educators, those who are called to invite others into the joys of historical study, some of whom will become themselves historians, others who will simply live deeper and richer lives because they have learned to think and live in the light of history. [...]we want the study of history to call people beyond themselves, and the insularity of their own lives, their own communities, their own times, to greater self understanding, to greater understanding of the complexity of the world, and to a greater sense of how to serve as effective agents of God's grand plan to reconcile the world to Himself.

• Publisher: The Conference on Faith and History
• Subject: Christianity / Christians / Context / Historians / Hume, David (1711-1776) / Philosophers / Power