Posted in Church, history, modernity, tagged angelique arnauld, history, jansenism, modernity, port-royal, rapley, sedgwick on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
I have recently been very intrigued by the question of how the historical forces of individuation (the systematic break up of traditional communities, such as the church, trade guilds, etc.) cooperated with the rise of the centralized authority of the nation-state. Of course, my interest is in how these forces have been detrimental to [...]
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Posted in history on December 9, 2007 | No Comments »
No one will argue that male historians have never paid any attention to women. The point of modern feminist objections to the androcentric focus of classical historiography is that historians only focus on women insofar as they act like men and perform male functions in society, “rising out of their stations” and so forth. [...]
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In Church in the Age Reason, one of my three classes from Dr. Dan “the Multnomah history division” Scalberg this semester, we’re reading Harry Stout’s fantastic biography The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism. Who knows why people get as pissed about things as they do, but as far as [...]
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This promises to be my most boring post yet. But I think this stuff is interesting.
Of course this text is dealing with history as two intermingling stories. Augustine names these stories “the celestial city” and “the earthly city.” Like the wheat and the tares, these cities grow up together to form [...]
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