Sacred History: Uses of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World. Edited by Katherine Van Liere, Simon Ditchfield, and Howard Louthan
Ecclesiastical history, according to the Oratorian Cesare Becilli, writing in the 1630s, ‘always accompanies sacred doctrine, not as a waiting-woman but as an ally and indeed perhaps an elder sister’. This wonderful, meticulously researched collection of essays tracks the changes but also the contin...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Review |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Ano: 2013, Volume: 64, Número: 2, Páginas: 794-796 |
| Resenha de: | Sacred history (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ Press, 2012) (Apetrei, Sarah)
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| Resumo: | Ecclesiastical history, according to the Oratorian Cesare Becilli, writing in the 1630s, ‘always accompanies sacred doctrine, not as a waiting-woman but as an ally and indeed perhaps an elder sister’. This wonderful, meticulously researched collection of essays tracks the changes but also the continuities in the role of ‘sacred history’ in an age typically characterized as one of intellectual and religious transformation. It is a story of paradoxes. Critical scholarship and new philological methods bolster confessional apologetics alongside ‘questionable scholarly practices’ (p. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt154 |