Priests of History
stewarding the past in an ahistoric age
$54.99
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2025
Summary
Priests of History: Reclaiming Our Past for a Rootless World
How can Christians engage meaningfully with history?
In an age underpinned by the idea that life is about self-invention and fulfilment, contemporary Western culture holds that the past has little to teach us. We live in what this book terms the “Ahistoric Age,” in which we are profoundly disconnected from history.
In the attempt to appear relevant, the church often embraces this ahistoric worldview by jett…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780310160908 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0310160901 |
| Author: | Sarah Irving-Stonebraker |
| Publisher: | Zondervan |
| Imprint: | Zondervan |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 385g |
| Dimensions: | 220mm x 145mm x 21mm |
About The Author
Sarah Irving-Stonebraker
Dr. Sarah Irving-Stonebraker is Associate Professor of History and Western Civilization at Australian Catholic University. She received her PhD in History from the University of Cambridge and held a Junior Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford. She converted from atheism to Christianity while an Assistant Professor at Florida State University. Her first book, Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire, won the Royal Society of Literature and Jerwood Foundation Award for Nonfiction. She and her husband Johnathan live in Sydney, Australia, with their three children and are members of an Anglican church in the Diocese of Sydney.
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