Sentence examples for secular historian from inspiring English sources

Instead, the secular historian must find a starting point that is well attested in non-Biblical evidence, and work forward from there.

Conflict sometimes arises because the committed point of view is likely to begin from a more conservative stance, accepting at face value the scriptural accounts of events, whereas the "secular" historian may be more skeptical, especially of records of miraculous events.

Oswald Spengler (29 May 1880 - 8 May 1936) was neither a religious nor secular historian, a position which in our modern bipolar world would in all probability leave most intellectuals searching for a job or even a room "at the Inn".

Or that secular historians are taking religion out of US history.

One of Mr Barton's admirers is Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who argues that American history has been distorted by secular historians to play down the role of faith.

In ancient Hebrew history, for example, events that are described by secular historians as the effects of political and economic forces were experienced by the prophets as occasions in which God was saving or punishing, rewarding or testing, the Israelites.

Four centuries on, when the Tudor Henry finally assumed total control of the church, he symbolised the reversal of Becket's victory by denouncing him as a traitor, burning his bones, and outlawing even the mention of his name, a verdict endorsed by protestant and secular historians till modern times.

(The secular sources for this period are all quite weak. ) Zosimus, like all ancient secular historians of the era, says nothing of Philip's alleged Christianity.

Zosimus, like all secular historians in his era, addressed himself to the governing class of the later Roman empire: officers, bureaucrats, and the landed aristocracy.

The idea of putting the gospels to the test as a piece of journalism is one that makes most secular historians a little uneasy.

I really am a secular humanist historian.