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University of Notre Dame Press is running a huge holiday sale between today and Christmas Eve.  They are offering all of their titles at 40% off the retail price.

Now is the time to get your copy of Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation.  What a great gift for the historian in your life!  Here is the table of contents:

Preface


Introduction
A Tradition Renewed? The Challenge of a Generation
Eric Miller, Geneva College 

Part One: Identity

Faith Seeking Historical Understanding
Mark R. Schwehn, Valparaiso University 

Not All Autobiography Is Scholarship: Thinking, as a Catholic, about History
Una M. Cadegan, University of Dayton 

Seeing Things: Knowledge and Love in History
Beth Barton Schweiger, University of Arkansas 

Part Two: Theory and Method

Virtue Ethics and Historical Inquiry: The Case of Prudence
Thomas Albert Howard, Gordon College 

The “Objectivity Question” and the Historian’s Vocation
William Katerberg, Calvin College

Enlightenment History, Objectivity, and the Moral Imagination
Michael Kugler, Northwestern College

On Assimilating the Moral Insights of the Secular Academy
Bradley J. Gundlach, Trinity College 

After Monographs: A Critique of Christian Scholarship as Professional Practice
Christopher Shannon, Christendom College 

The Problem of Preaching Through History
James B. LaGrand. Messiah College 

Part Three: Communities

Coming to Terms with Lincoln: Christian Faith and Moral Reflection in the History Classroom
John Fea. Messiah College 

For Teachers to Live, Professors Must Die: A Sermon on the Mount
Lendol Calder, Augustana College 

The Historian as Conscience and Servant of Human Society: A Christian Response to Public Reasoning by Historical Analogy
Jay Green, Covenant College 

Don’t Forget the Church: Reflections on the Forgotten Dimension of our Dual Calling
Robert Tracy McKenzie, University of Washington 

On the Vocation of Historians to the Priesthood of Believers: A Plea to Christians in the Academy
Douglas A. Sweeney, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School 

Afterword

Revisiting the Idea of Progress in History: Perspectives of Herbert Butterfield, Christopher Dawson, and Reinhold Niebuhr
Wilfred M. McClay, University of Tennessee–Chattanooga

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