Big History and the Religious Perspective
What connections could exist between Big History and the religious perspective? The answer is more than plenty. If Big History is defined as “the attempt to understand,…
What connections could exist between Big History and the religious perspective? The answer is more than plenty. If Big History is defined as “the attempt to understand,…
In the first half of the nineteenth-century, the question of history – its origins, its continuing burden, and the possibility of transcending it – preoccupied American thinkers,…
The study of history is a rigorous intellectual enterprise. A student researching and writing about the past must sift through multiple pieces of evidence, grasp an event’s…
The Second Epilogue Although nearly all have admired Tolstoy’s War and Peace since its publication, critics have been divided over whether the novel has an organizational principle.…
History, to be precise about the term, is not everything that has ever happened, but the remembered and recorded past, the past judged worthy of reflection and…
. . . . When the intellectual and spiritual sources of order in human and social life dry up, there is not much left as a source…
Man is constructed as a function of history in such philosophies of history as those of Comte, Hegel, and Marx, with an apocalyptic present, that is, a…
The greatest potential of historic preservation isn’t merely in temporarily saving a vast potpourri of old buildings and sites from the inexorable ravages of time. Instead, in…