From the New Oxford Review back in December 1994. Writing the history of a religious institution involves understanding concepts and language within their historical and cultural context. Otherwise, the risk…
It is the way of advocacy scholarship to seize upon snips and pieces of “evidence” divorced from their historical context, and then offer an improbable or fanciful interpretation that serves…
Like me you've probably seen this sort of thing doing the rounds on teh intarweb recently: Prof John Boswell, the late chairman of Yale University’s history department, found there were…