…we see the link between historical knowledge and neighborly love in this, that even the concrete person in my immediate presence is not abstracted from history. A human being, fully understood, is not only a product of timeless nature but...
hope and historians
History and the Tragic Sense of Our Fallenness
I wish I had more time to engage with Peter Wirzbicki‘s excellent piece on historians and hope. It is unfortunate that this was posted so close to Christmas because it is worth a full read. Andrew Hartman agrees with me:...