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The Importance of Recent Historiography for the Study of Religious Thought
1990; Brill; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/157006890x00013
ISSN1570-0682
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Literary Studies
ResumoThis article addresses certain methodological questions that arose when I began to think about how to write a doctoral dissertation on the religious thought of the French Romantic philosopher Pierre-Simon Ballanche. It quickly became apparent that my subject did not fall into any of the convenient genres of religious historical writing: it was not Church history because Ballanche did not belong to the hierarchy of the Catholic Church; it was not history of theology because Ballanche's thought was not recognized by the Church; it was not spirituality or homiletics because his thought attempts an intellectually rigorous philosophy of history. My subject seemed to fit most naturally into general intellectual history or, as it used to be called, the history of ideas. Intellectual history, however, has been under attack in departments of history for over fifty years. Strong doubts have been expressed over its methodological assumptions and the value of its conclusions. Consequently, I was forced to ask myself if a
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