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	The Historical-Critical Method
		The crux of historical interpretation is that our conviction that the ancient authors reflected their own historical situation and wrote to address people of their own time and place.
		What is "critical" in historical criticism is the application of our historical knowledge to the ancient text unfettered by religious or ideological strictures that would destroy the light history can shed upon the Bible.
		This is the twofold historical inquiry I've presented to you.
	www.wfu.edu /~horton/r102/hc-method.html (2122 words)

	Historiography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although questions of method have always concerned historians, the modern study of historiography can be said to have its beginnings with E.
		Historiography that is considered controversial or extreme is often pejoratively labeled as historical revisionism.
		Historical revisionism is the reexamination of the accepted facts and interpretations of history, with an eye towards updating it with newly discovered, more accurate, and less biased information.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Historiography (1171 words)

	LT78 - TWO VIEWS OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM - II. HISTORICAL CRITICISM AS AN HISTORICAL METHOD
		Historical method basically involves four things: a) a technique of investigation; b) an ability to identify what really took place; c) knowledge of what others are affirming in one's own field, in cognate fields, and in allied disciplines; d) an ability to express correctly what one has ascertained.
		Historical critics place much emphasis upon their techniques of investigation, but they are usually not well informed on what non-rationalist exegetes and theologians have said or are saying about their area of research.
		Defense of the historicity of the biblical accounts is a challenge, and the discovery throughout the text of answers to the "unanswerable" objections of form-critics is a reward in itself, leading to the perception of new meanings in the Bible.
	www.rtforum.org /lt/lt78.html (5508 words)

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		Historical criticism is not a threat to the Scriptures because it is congruent with its object, the Bible.
		Historical criticism respects this historical gap and uses a method to determine as precisely as possible the significance of the words for the people then.
		Historical criticism sets the Bible squarely into our history and makes the `full brightness and impact of Christian ideas shine out.” “Historical criticism is used because the Bible gives a witness to an historical event; it raises a claim to historical truth.
	www.faulkner.edu /admin/websites/rbailey/FAITH.HIS.doc (2842 words)

	Historical Sources Online
		The goal of Genetic history is to establish the "why" of historical events by studying the complexity of cause and effect which in turn reveal the growth, development and evolution (sometimes called the basic phenomena) of history.
		Their often haughty and dismissive attitude of past historical interpretations as being skewed or invalid has served to alienate many non-historians who have in turn shut out all attempts at historical reinterpretation and resigned themselves to the boring, static history they learned in school.
		The method of indirect observation, through the use of sources, is the only avenue open to the historian except in the few cases where he can draw on personal knowledge of facts.
	users.ids.net /~marcom/historint/hi-methodnotes.html (10323 words)

	The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church: Methods and Approaches
		The historical-critical method is the indispensable method for the scientific study of the meaning of ancient texts.
		When the texts studied belong to a historical literary genre or are related to events of history, historical criticism completes literary criticism so as to determine the historical significance of the text in the modern sense of this expression.
		With respect to the inclusion in the method of a synchronic analysis of texts, we must recognize that we are dealing here with a legitimate operation, for it is the text in its final stage, rather than in its earlier editions, which is the expression of the word of God.
	www.geocities.com /francischinchoy/PBC_Interp1.htm (10997 words)

	Christian Origins Blog: An Introduction to Historical Method
		The historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write history.
		The question of the nature, and indeed the possibility, of sound historical method is raised in the philosophy of history, as a question of epistemology.
		Also, the historical sciences assume uniformitarianism (the processes of nature we see now are the same as they were in the past), does the historical method have something analogous to that assumption?
	www.christianorigins.com /2005/08/introduction-to-historical-method.html (2349 words)

	Keith Hunt - Making sense of Scripture - Part four - Page Four
		HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION Some students differentiate between the historical and grammatical interpretation of the Scriptures as though they are separate and distinct.
		Neither do I refer to Semler's accommodation theory which he called "historical interpretation." The method of interpretation we are dealing with here and which is also called "historical" has to do with taking into account the historical settings and situations in which the books of the Bible were written.
		The literal method, that is, interpreting the natural meaning of a passage according to the normal rules of grammar, speech, syntax, and context, is the most appropriate method of biblical interpretation.
	www.keithhunt.com /Study4.html (4416 words)

	HISTORICAL CRITICAL METHOD IN THEOLOGY
		Maier, Walter A. "Historical Critical Method as Employed in the Study of the New Testament." Springfielder 35 (1971): 26-40.
		Preus, Robert D. "The Hermeneutics of the Lutheran Confessions and the Historical-Critical Method." In The Function of Doctrine and Theology in Light of the Unity of the Church, 65-75.
		Priebe, Duane A. "The Historical-Critical Method and the Method of the Lutheran Confessions." In The Function of Doctrine and Theology in Light of the Unity of the Church, 76-81.
	www.andrews.edu /~canale/historical_critical_method_in_th.htm (2516 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Pontifical Biblical Commission: Yesterday And Today
		The historical critics eventually won the long and at times bitter fight for the ear of the hierarchy over the contested Replies of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, and the reason for this victory seems to have been a tactical error in the approach of the traditional Catholic exegetes who opposed them.
		Many of these traditional exegetes were able scholars, but they pitched their arguments against the historical critics more in terms of the questionable orthodoxy of the presuppositions and logical results of the form-critical method than by analyzing in detail and refuting the technical procedures of the method itself.
		On the other hand, Catholic historical critics were using the form-critical method usually without adverting to its questionable presuppositions and often without drawing the seemingly obvious implications of their reasonings that might be construed as undermining belief in the historical truth of the inspired text.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4679 (2019 words)

	VERDICT - The Historical Method - Essay 2 1983 - Robert D. Brinsmead
		The historical method is more sensitive to the fact that the Bible was written in another age and from within a culture quite different from Western civilization.
		The historical method treats with great seriousness the historical circumstances in which the text was written.
		The historical method has driven biblical scholars and researchers to lay aside their dogmatic presuppositions (at least to a greater extent than ever before) and to painstakingly reconstruct the history behind the biblical text.
	www.quango.net /brinsmead/historicalmethod.HTM (2733 words)

	LT77 - TWO VIEWS OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM - I. HISTORICAL CRITICISM AS A CRITICAL METHOD
		The two viewpoints are the historical-critical versus the neo-Patristic approach to the interpretation of Sacred Scripture, and the two key terms are the words "critical" and "historical." The definition and division of "biblical criticism" leads to the questions of the literary analysis of the inspired word and of historical method.
		The present article is critical of the "historical-critical method," as this term is commonly understood today, but it is aimed only at technical aspects of the method itself and does not question the good faith or loyal intentions of the Catholic historical-critics whom it quotes for the sake of example.
		One of the steps in the neo-Patristic method is to examine relevant historical-critical interpretations in terms of the presuppositions and logical method underlying their conclusions, seeking to incorporate whatever is found to be scientifically solid, in the realization that an adequate historical method will, indeed, lead to certain new discoveries.
	www.rtforum.org /lt/lt77.html (5453 words)

	GERMAN HISTORICAL SCHOOL
		To derive any economic "laws", the he argued, the method is thus inevitably cross-disciplinary: one must look at economic life with the eye of a historian and sociologist, as well as an economist.
		The members of the "Youngest" Historical School were of a very different flavor - initially, they were much less conservative than the Schmoller generation and sought to return to the early positivism of Roscher.
		Argued for the historical method as a positive and not normative science.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/schools/historic.htm (1189 words)

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		It is admitted on all hands that the deductive method which, generally speaking, is one of the two processes upon which the mind is dependent for the extension of its knowledge, is applied with rich results in almost all sciences, even in those which are pronouncedly empirical, like physics and astronomy.
		The rashness of this judgment is not the only peculiar feature which the historical economy's conception of the classical exhibits; therewith is associated a singular contradiction in its estimate of the classical economy, a strangely inconsistent coupling of depreciation with exaggeration of the ability of the latter.
		If a tendency of method is more faithfully mirrored in the works than in the words of its followers, we can in no way better obtain a fair presentation of the attitude of the party of the defendant than by holding up the glass to them.
	socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/bawerk/bohm001.html (6527 words)

	The Bible's Deady Enemy -- The Historical-Critical Method of Interpretation
		I am convinced that the historical-critical method of Scripture interpretation is the greatest of all the enemies of the Christian faith.
		Eta Linnemann had studied under the prominent historical critical theologian Rudolf Bultmann, and after completing the rigorous requirements for a European university lectureship, she was promoted to high positions of responsibility in the German community of scholars.
		Linnemann testifies to the personal joy which she has found in coming to a knowledge of Christ, and on page after page she explains that the historical-critical approach to Bible study "is a series of prejudgments which are not themselves the result of scientific investigation" (page 111).
	www.brfwitness.org /Articles/1993v28n1b.htm (1455 words)

	Christian Hartlich: "Historical-Critical Method"
		With regard to historical events, ordinary knowledge is only possible on the basis of a partial identifiability of what is reported in a fundamentally repeatable continuum of knowledge.
		For if the maxim which leads to this conclusion became a general rule for historical investigation, then wherever supernatural accounts accompany or ground the introduction of a religion, a cult, or a belief, it would be required that the reported events be granted historical reality.
		It is, namely, a datum of human historical experience that the formal principles of true objective knowledge were not available from the beginning in a fundamental way, but had to be acquired step by step, as the consequence of prolonged fruitless attempts.
	www.depts.drew.edu /jhc/hartlich.html (4924 words)

	Theory and Method in American Cultural Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		While the problem of historical theory and method is obviously of great interest to professional historians, this category is an interdisciplinary one in that the problem of "historicizing" one's subjects and objects of analyis is faced by virtually all fields and is certainly central to the interdisciplinary field of AS.
		Reflects on theory and method in the writing of social history via a survey of Foucault, Geertz, the annalles school, and neo-Marxism in relation to the writing of US historians.
		Lloyd analyzes the theories, methods and in particular the notions of causality peculiar to social history.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~DRBR/TVReed/hist.html (1474 words)

	The Historical Approach to Research
		The historical method of research applies to all fields of study because it encompasses their: origins, growth, theories, personalities, crisis, etc. Both quantitative and
		Harter and Busha define library history as “the systematic recounting of past events pertaining to the establishment, maintenance, and utilization of systematically arranged collections of recorded information or knowledge….A biography of a person who has in some way affected the development of libraries, library science, or librarianship is also considered to be library history.
		The resources that follow this brief introduction to the historical method in research provide resources for further in-depth explanations about this research method in various fields of study, and abstracts of studies conducted using this method.
	www.gslis.utexas.edu /~palmquis/courses/historical.htm (1063 words)

	Theory and Method in American Cultural Studies: Historical Theory
		While the problem of historical theory and method is obviously of great interest to professional historians, this category is an interdisciplinary one in that the problem of "historicizing" one's subjects and objects of analysis is faced by virtually all fields and is certainly central to the interdisciplinary field of AS.
		This includes what one might call the "textualist" school of historiography, those critics who reflect on the fact that whatever else historical writing is it is a form of writing and as such subject to various generic conventions and other putatively "literary" determinations that shape what can be said about the past.
		Not a survey of historiographic theory per se, but rather a history of notions of historical truth and historical writing in U.S. culture from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
	www.wsu.edu /~amerstu/tm/hist.html (1821 words)

	HST 701--Historical Method, Fall 2001
		This course presents an advanced study of the philosophy and method of historical research, with particular attention to writing and teaching history.
		While intended to familiarize students with the traditions and current practice of the historical profession, the course will also acquaint students with specific problems in historical research reflected in the publications of the seminar instructor.
		Students will examine the development and traditions of historical scholarship, as well as contemporary historiographical challenges to traditional methodologies, including postmodernism, postcolonial and transnational critiques, and feminist studies.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/701f01b.html (1554 words)

	There Was No Historical Paul the Apostle
		Good historical research must not be restricted to only judging whatever hypotheses are most obviously present and familiar.
		It's much easier to list the Bible characters who are based on a single historical individual serving as a lone kernel, than to list the characters who are essentially mythical and are only very loosely based on an abstraction of traits from various historical individuals.
		I surmise that they hadn't seriously questioned the historical Paul assumption, but made the error of continuing to accept huge areas of the conventional history, as though we could pluck away the Historical Jesus while retaining so much of the rest of the framework of the circle of historicity around him.
	www.egodeath.com /NoHistoricalPaul.htm (7355 words)

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		There is no need for you to go into details regarding specific points, assertions, conjectures, etc. made in the paper: all you need to focus on is the relationship between the main purpose of the paper and the comparative design that is there to substantiate it.
		Prepare a 1500-to-2000-word discussion, focusing on how the document was prepared, the nature of its contents, its strengths and weaknesses as an historical source, possible errors of commission or omission contained in the document, and the ways in which the information contained in it might be useful for answering sociologically relevant questions.
		This is an adaptation of an exercise developed by Ronald Aminzade (Univ.of Minnesota), reported by Theda Skocpol (Harvard) in an ASA publication on syllabi for courses on comparative-historical sociology.
	hi.rutgers.edu /hi/jb/chm.syl.htm (1549 words)

	The Puritanboard - » Worship » Preaching » Redemptive-Historical method
		I understand the concept of the Indicative/Imperative method, but have never seen the former method summarized.
		Simply put, it emphasizes the manner in which God saves redemptively through the historical reality of the Savior (that is was a true event in time and applicable to everything in the bible).
		The focus is grounding everythinig in the reality of the historical context of a real Jesus, real virgin birth, real life, death and resurrection.
	www.puritanboard.com /forum/viewthread.php?tid=8785 (403 words)

	Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		methods: these and other things made it clear that entirely too much was
		methods of the biblical writers were?* Should we, or should we
		made for the numerous methods of historical criticism (and for the many
	www.bible.acu.edu /s-c?Bookmark=459 (849 words)

	Miracles and the Historical Method (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		This lecture describes a "tool kit" for examining miracle claims in history.
		It summarizes how to analyze and weigh historical claims, with entertaining examples and a slide show, concluding that, so far, there is not enough historical evidence to beleive any miracles have happened, not even that Jesus rose from the grave.
		Following the lecture, there will be an informal student discussion.
	events.stanford.edu /events/63/6315 (117 words)

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