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  • MHT: Historiography and Christian History

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. At this juncture, I must reiterate that the application of categories such as pre-Modern, Modern, Postmodern, and developmental are neither strictly chronological nor are they entirely encompassing. There are contemporary examples of historiographical perspective representing each…

  • Recommended Reading: November 14-20

    If you read one article this week, engage For the Sake of the Gospel, Let’s Tell the Truth by John Mark Reynolds. For those of you with additional reading time this weekend, check out the following suggestions, gleaned as always from around the internet. Think I should be reading something else? Let me know in…

  • MHT: Developmental Perspectives on History

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. Postmodernism has not been the only reaction to the rise of Modern historiography: well documented is the rise of various “fundamental” forms of religion, which often retreat into pre-Modern conceptions of history and reality without taking…

  • MHT: Theological Critiques of Modern History

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. A number of theologically active Postmodern critiques have arisen in recent decades as well, most notably Liberation, Feminist, and Postcolonial Theologies. Founded by Gustavo Gutierrez, Liberation Theology places an emphasis on salvation, God’s work in history,…

  • MHT: Postmodern Critiques of Modern History

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. Postmodernism, while notoriously difficult to define and existing in a variety of forms, essentially involves an attempt to move beyond Modernism and the questioning of metanarratives and truth claims due to the constructed nature of human…

  • MHT: Modern Critiques of Modern History

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. The Modernist perspective on history is not without its critics. Herbert Butterfield noted the importance of engaging the complexities of the past on their own terms and of not presuming the assumptions of the present where…

  • Book Review: Lord Jesus Christ (Hurtado)

    Magnum opus remains a term best reserved for the crowning achievement of a scholar’s life and work, the pinnacle at the top of decades of research, writing, and sharpening arguments. These great works comprehensively examine and engage their field of work and, at their best, even redefine the field for years to come. Such is…

  • Recommended Reading: November 7-13

    If you read one article this weekend, engage Conscience for Me, But Not for Thee by John Ehrett If you’ve got more reading time today, take a look at the rest of this week’s recommended readings, gathered from around the interwebs. As always, if you think there is something else I should be reading, feel…

  • MHT: The Rise of Modern History

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. This was first great Modern shift in historical thinking, coming to recognize that human existence exists within changing space and time.[11] While this fact was first the product of Biblical and Humanistic scholarship, Enlightenment thinking soon…

  • MHT: Medieval and Reformation History

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. In the medieval period, conceptions of the changelessness of the Church solidified through the works of Bernard of Clairvaux, the Venerable Bede, Dante, and Otto of Freising.[6] Rome—which was generally not thought of as “fallen” until…