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Book SynopsisIn Part I of Christianity and History, the author asks whether the committed Christian should be more conscious than the uncommitted of some meaning in history. In answering this he offers a critique of Arnold Toynbee and makes some penetrating observations on the teaching of history. Part II is concerned with the author's special field-the Protest
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*CONTENTS, pg. ix*1. Religious Perspectives of College Teaching: History, pg. 3*2. The "Meaning of History" and the Writing of History, pg. 35*3. Divine Purpose and Human History, pg. 53*4. The Aims and Hopes of Mankind in the Light of Advancing Science: an Historian's View, pg. 69*5. Liberal Education and Christian Education, pg. 79*6. The Problem of the Christian Historian: a Critique of Arnold J, Toynbee, pg. 115*7. The Protestant Reformation, pg. 141*8. Freedom in Western Thought, pg. 157*9. Will versus Reason: the Dilemma of the Reformation in Historical Perspective, pg. 176*10. The Intellectual as Social Reformer: Machiavelli and Thomas More, pg. 204*11. The Idea of Utility in the Thought of John Calvin (with a discussion by J. T. McNeill), pg. 249*12. Calvin's Sense of History, pg. 270*INDEX, pg. 289
