Description
How do we know the stories told by historians are true? To what extent can we rely on their interpretations of the past?
Histories and Fallacies is a primer on the conceptual and methodological problems in the discipline of history. Historian Carl Trueman presents a series of classic historical problems as a way to examine what history is, what it means, and how it can be told and understood. Each chapter in Histories and Fallacies gives an account of a particular problem, examines classic examples of that problem, and then suggests a solution or approach that will bear fruit for the writer or reader of history.
Readers who follow Trueman's deft writing will not just be learning theory but will already be practicing fruitful approaches to history. Histories and Fallacies guides both readers and writers of history away from dead ends and methodological mistakes, and into a fresh confidence in the productive nature of the historical task.
Author: Carl R. Trueman
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 11/03/2010
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781581349238
ISBN10: 1581349238
BISAC Categories:
- History | Historiography
- History | Study & Teaching
About the Author
CARL R. TRUEMAN is professor of historical theology and church history, and vice president for academic affairs at Westminster Theological Seminary. A council member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and a former editor of Themelios, Trueman has written six books and contributed to dozens of anthologies and publications.