Christian Philosophy of History, Theology of History and Historiography Bibliography

The World Wide Web's largest bibliography of Christian Historiography in English! These are not works on Church History or the History of Christianity or Religious History, but rather, the interpretation of history from a Christian perspective. Mostly I concentrated on post-WWII, but not exclusively. Any labels or comments are not meant to be derogatory. They are only to indicate what the orientation of the piece is, and many of the labels were given by another person, not by me, so they may not all be accurate. And no, I have not read all of them. Please feel free to email me (Robert M. Lindsey) with any comments or additions at mrpontiac at yahoo dot com . Also the citation style may not be consistent, I just used what ever was used where I found the citation. I tried to cite the first publication dates on the books, but by no means are any of them guaranteed to be correct. Hint: use CTRL + F (FIND command) to look for every instance of an author's name Last update September 26, 2008.

Ahlstrom, Sydney E. THE PROBLEM OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGION IN AMERICA. Church History 1988 57(Supplement): 127-138.

Albright, William Foxwell. History Archaeology and Christian Humanism. 1964.

Baillie, John. What is Christian civilization?. 1945.

Bainton, Roland Herbert, Yesterday, Today, and What Next?: Reflections on History and Hope. Minneapolis : Augsburg Pub. House, c1978.

Bainton, Roland. "Church history and progress." Education for Christian service. By members of the Divinity School of Yale University. 1922.

Balthasar, Hans Urs von, Theologie der Geschichte. English. A Theology of History. San Francisco : Ignatius Press, 1994, 1963.

Baur, Ferdinand Christian, 1792-1860. Ferdinand Christian Baur on the Writing of Church History. Edited and translated by Peter C. Hodgson. New York, Oxford University Press, 1968.

Bauman, Michael and Martin Klauber. eds. Historians of the Christian Tradition: Their Methodologies and Influence on Western Thought. 1995. *

Bebbington, David William. Patterns in history: A Christian view or Patterns in History: A Christian Perspective on Historical Thought.

Bebbington, David William. "EVANGELICAL HISTORIOGRAPHY: AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID BEBBINGTON" PDF at http://www.benrff.org/documents/Evangelical%20Historiography.pdf

Berdiaev(Berdyaev), Nikolai Aleksandrovich. The Meaning of History. 1936. Neo-orthodox.

Berkhof, Hendrikus. Christ, the Meaning in History or Christ The Meaning Of History -. Rapids: Baker, 1979.

Boice, James Montgomery. God and history, vol 4 of Foundations of the Christian Faith. 1981. Included in this one volume edition.

Booty, John F. ed. The Divine Drama in History and Liturgy: Essays Presented to Horton Davies on His Retirement from Princeton University (Pittsburgh Theological Monographs). 1984.

Bowden, Henry Warner. Church History in an Age of Uncertainty: Historiographical Patterns in the United States, 1906 - 1990. 1991. From Book News, Inc. , August 1, 1991: A companion to the author's earlier book on church history in a scientific age, this work is a venture into intellectual history of a very specific kind‑‑a study of the methods and interpretations of 25 20th‑century church historians. The analysis groups these scholars into several fairly clearly defined schools or trends, from scientific objectivism and theology‑based historicism, to environmental conditionalism and the work of consensus scholars. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Bowden, Henry Warner. MODERN DEVELOPMENTS IN THE INTERPRETATION OF CHURCH HISTORY. Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 1974 43(2): 105-124. Abstract: Examines the views of church historians regarding the relation of one's faith commitment to the interpretation of historical events, focusing on Kenneth Scott Latourette (1884-1968) and William Warren Sweet (1881-1959). "Each pursued his craft within the context of modern epistemological and methodological structures, and both of them brought their Christian faith to bear creatively on those standards." They achieved workable hypotheses while reconciling temporal knowledge and transcendental convictions. From OCLC FirstSearch

Boyd, Jonathan Tucker. "If we ever needed the Lord before." Books & Culture. Special issue on History Wars. May/June 1999. Vol 5, No 3 pg 40-.

Braaten, Carl E. History and Hermeneutics. 1966. Existential.

Braaten, Carl E. and Roy A. Harrisville eds. Kerygma and History a Symposium on the Theology of Rudolf Bultmann. 1962.

Bradley, James E., Richard Alfred Muller. Church History: An Introduction to Research, Reference Works, and Methods. 1995.

Brockwell, Charles W., Jr. ; Wengert, Timothy J. "Christian History in Ecumenical Perspective: Principles of Historiography" Fides et historia : official publication of the Conference on Faith and History. XXIV, no. 1, (Spring 1992): 40

Brown, Colin, ed. History, Criticism & Faith - Four Exploratory Studies. Leicester, Eng. ; Downers Grove, Ill. : Inter‑Varsity Press, 1977, 1969. Wenham, G. History & the Old Testament.‑‑Bruce, F. F. History & the New Testament: myth & history.‑‑France, R. T. History & the New Testament: the authenticity of the sayings of Jesus.‑‑Brown, C. History & the believer.

Brown, Colin. History & Faith: A Personal Exploration.

Brueggemann, Walter. Hope Within History. Atlanta : J. Knox Press, c1987.

Bultmann, Rudolf Karl. HISTORY AND ESCHATOLOGY. (Gifford Lectures 1955) 1957. Or The Presence of Eternity: History and Eschatology. Very liberal. Neo-Orthodox.

Burch, Maxie B. The Evangelical Historians: the historiography of George Marsden, Nathan Hatch and Mark Noll. 1996.

Burch, Maxie Byrd."Doing History from the Inside: An Examination of Evangelical Historiography." Dissertation. DAI 1994 55(6): 1595-A. DA9429039 Publication: Baylor U. 1994. 228 pp.

Butterfield, Sir Herbert. "Historiography." Dictionary of The History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas . Philip P. Wiener ed. (New York, 1973). II p. 464-98.

Butterfield, Sir Herbert. "The Christian and historical study." in History & Human Relations. p. 131-157.

Butterfield, Sir Herbert. "The Christian and the ecclesiastical interpretation of history." Christian Newsletter. July 6, 1949. p. 226.

Butterfield, Sir Herbert. Christianity and History. 1950. Methodist.

Butterfield, Sir Herbert. The Origins of History.

Butterfield, Sir Herbert. Writings on Christianity and History. Edited by C. T. McIntire. New York, Oxford. 1979.

Buttrick, George Arthur. Christ and history. 1963.

Cairns, Earle E. "Philosophy of history." in Contemporary Evangelical Thought. Carl F. H. Henry ed. 1957.

Cairns, Earle E. "Theology and history: the relations reconsidered." The Christian Scholar. XLVI 1963.

Cairns, Earle E. God and man in time: A Christian approach to historiography. 1979.

Cameron, Euan. Interpreting Christian history : the challenge of the churches' past. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub, 2005. Contents: The unfolding of Christian history : a sketch -- Christianity : a Jewish heresy spreads across the Eastern Empire -- Greek and Latin, east and west -- Persecution, legal establishment, empowerment and retreat -- The Eastern church, the spread of Islam, and expansion northwards -- The Western church of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages -- Disputes over control, and the rise of a continental church -- The high medieval synthesis -- Later Middle Ages : the era of fragmentation -- Challenges and ruptures : Renaissance and Reformation -- The age of competing orthodoxies -- Challenges to orthodoxy : reason, enlightenment and revolution -- The era of Romanticism and its implications -- The multiple crises of the twentieth century -- Reflecting on the process of historical development -- Constantly shifting emphases in Christian history -- Means to Holiness Become Ultimate Goals -- Asceticism : giving things up for God -- Expecting miracles -- Martyrdom -- Sacrament and sacrifice : the Eucharistic church -- The company of heaven : the communion of saints -- Purity of doctrine and instruction : the school of faith -- The Christian community and its membership -- Reflections on shifting priorities -- Church historians' responses to change and diversity -- The early church : Eusebius of Caesarea -- Early medieval church history : Bede -- The high middle ages : a monastic chronicle -- Renaissance historiography : rhetoric and scepticism -- The Reformation and the rise of a sense of history -- The rise of reformed schools of church history -- Confessional histories in the age of orthodoxy -- Writing Christian history in the shadow of the Enlightenment -- Toward "modern" histories of Christianity -- Postmodern and liberation-oriented approaches to Christian history -- Summary and conclusions -- Some theologians reflect on the historical problem -- The historical background to historical-critical theology -- The challenge of Ludwig Feuerbach to modernizing theology -- German liberal Protestant theology of the ineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Responses to liberalism in the 20th century -- Thomism, mysticism and neo-liberalism : some Roman Catholic responses -- Cultural diversity, liberation, postliberalism and postmodernity -- Drawing the threads together.

Carter, Paul A. RECENT HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCHES IN AMERICA. Church History 1968 37(1): 95-107. Abstract: Summarizes shifts in Protestant church history over the past 35 years and offers suggestions for future work in the area. The dominant position of neo-orthodox or liberal theology, the narrow definition of a Protestant "mainstream," and the virtual exclusion of groups such as Lutherans and Mormons from consideration have been challenged. The distinction between secular and religious histories of religion is no longer significant. Nonetheless the cleavage between religious history and church history or between the study of religion as a prophetic movement and religion as a series of institutions continues. While recognizing the values of a churchly history even of "religions of the Christian perimeter" the author cautions that some aspects of American religion such as Negro religion, New Thought, or "peace of mind" do not lend themselves to such treatment and that the tendency to speak of church rather than churches may mask a failure to appreciate the positive aspects of religious pluralism. Based on recently published literature in the field. From OCLC FirstSearch

Case, Shirley Jackson. The Christian philosophy of history. 1943. Liberal.

Casserley, J. V. LANGMEAD Toward A Theology Of History. 1965,

Chifflot, T. G. Approaches to a theology of history, Translated from the French by Mary Perkins Ryan. New York, Desclee Co. [1966, c1965]

Christian History, Nov2001, Vol. 20 Issue 4, whole issue dedicated to historiography.

Clark, Gordon H. A Christian View of Men and Things. Chapter on interpretation of history.

Clark, Gordon H. Historiography: Secular and Religious. 1971. A Christian philosopher.

Conyers, A. J. God, Hope, and History: Jurgen Moltmann and the Christian Concept of History. Mercer University Press. Macon, GA. 1988.

Crusius, Donald N. The meaning of the historic church in the philosophies of history of Augustine and Arnold J. Toynbee. 1957.

Cullman, Oscar. Christ and Time: the Primitive Christain Conception of Time and History. 1950.

Cullman, Oscar. Salvation in History. 1967.

D'Arcy, Martin C. S.J. THE MEANING AND MATTER OF HISTORY: A Christian View.. 1959.

D'Arcy, Martin Cyril. Sense of History: Secular and Sacred. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press [1974, c1959]

Dawson, Christopher. Religion and the Rise of Western Culture. 1950. Roman Catholic.

Dawson, Christopher. Dynamics of World History. 1956. Roman Catholic.

D'Elia, Donald J. and Patrick Foley. The Catholic as historian. Naples, FL : Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2006. Contents: The Catholic as historian : witness in every age to Christ's presence among us / Donald D'Elia -- Faith's past, hope's future, charity's present : the enduring role of the Catholic historian / Michael B. Ewbank -- Nature, culture, and history / Rocco Buttiglione -- Christianity and the philosophy of history / Robert A. Herrera -- Christian philosophy, Christian history : parallel ideas / Glen W. Olsen -- Banning the supernatural : why historians must not rule out the action of God in history / Warren H. Carroll -- Why teach history? / Thomas Molnar -- Things hidden since the beginning of the world / James Hitchcock -- Secularized Christendom and the age of revolution / Edward King -- Galahad Naif : the experience of a student wrestling with the Enlightenment / Carl Schmitt, Jr. -- Recovering a legacy through history : the Catholic American southwest and west / Patrick Foley.

Dodson, Dru A. Philip Schaff, Princeton, and the idea of church history. Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1992.

Donagan, Alan and Barbara Donagan. Philosophy of History (Sources in Philosophy) by Donagan. 1965.

Dooyeweerd, Herman. Roots of Western Culture: Pagan, Secular, and Christian Options. 1979.

Dooyeweerd, Herman. The criteria of progressive and reactionary tendencies in history. 1958.

Eddy, Sherwood. God In History. 1947. Liberal.

Engle, Peter Gregg. Jonathan Edwards as historiographer : an analysis of his schema of church history, focusing on period III of his History of redemption. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Westminster Theolgical Seminary, 1985.

Evans, C. Stephen. "The history of history." Books & Culture. Special issue on History Wars. May/June 1999. Vol 5, No 3 pg 34-.

Facets of Faith and Science: Vol. I: Historiography and Modes of Interaction Ancaster, Ont. ; Lanham, Md.: Pascal Centre for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science : University Press of America. 1996. "Papers from the First International Pascal Centre Conference on Science and Belief.". Includes bibliographical references and index. Partial contents: Aquinas on faith and science / Kenneth J. Konyndyk -- Evaluation of models for interaction between metaphysical beliefs and the natural sciences / Frederick Suppe -- Have worldviews shaped science? A reply to Brooke / Stephen John Wykstra --. The importance of eliminating 'science' and 'religion' from the history of science and religion: the cases of Oliver Lodge, J.H. Jeans and A.S. Eddington / David B. Wilson --. Methodological naturalism? / Alvin Plantinga -- The possibility of conflict between science and Christian theology / Kenneth W. Kemp -- Religious belief and the natural sciences: mapping the historical landscape / John Hedley Brooke --. Scientific work and its theological dimensions: toward a theology of natural science / Christopher B. Kaiser -- Stones that the builder rejected: an essay recommending the critical approach to both science and religion / Tom Settle --. The transcendental role of wisdom in science / Thomas F. Torrance -- Ultimate and penultimate beliefs in science / Thomas F. Torrance.

Farmer, W. R., C. F. D. Moule, and R. R. Niebuhr, eds. Christian History and Interpretation: Studies Presented to John Knox. Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1967.

Florovsky, Georges. "The predicament of the Christian historian." in Religion and Culture; Essays in Honor of Paul Tillich. W. Leibrecht, ed. 1959.

Forster, Roger T. & V. Paul Marston. God's Strategy in Human History. Wheaton, Ill., Tyndale House [1974, c1973].

Foutz, Scott David. "On Establishing an Evangelical Historiography for the 21st Century" Quodlibet Online Journal Sept 1996. http://www.quodlibet.net/histfinl.shtml

Foakes Jackson, Frederick John . A history of church history: Studies of some historians of the Christian church. 1939.

Frykenberg, Robert Eric. History & Belief: The Foundations of Historical Understanding. 1996. Eerdman's.

Gilkey, Langdon. Reaping the Whirlwind: A Christian Interpretation of History. New York: Seabury, 1977.

Glover, M. W. The Analogy of History: History and Christian Existence.

Glover, Willis B. Biblical origins of modern secular culture: an essay in the interpretation of Western history. 1984.

Goff, Philip. "Revivals and revolution: historiographic turns since Alan Heimert's Religion and the American mind." Church History. Dec 1998. 67:4 695-721.

Gogarten, F. Demythologizing and history. London: Christian student movement press. 1955.

Graf, Friedrich Wilhelm. "Christianity and history." Unesco Courier. v. 43, n. 3, march 90, p30-4. Very liberal. A short article on the Church's view of history ending on a relativistic note.

Grimes, Howard. The Christian views history. 1969.

Grousset, Rene. Sum of History.

Guelzo, Allen C. "How does a Christian DO history?" http://www.eastern.edu/academic/trad_undg/sas/depts/history/howdoes.html

Harbison, E. Harris. Christianity and history;: Essays. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1964

Harbison, E. Harris. Religious perspectives of college teaching in history. New Haven, CT : The Edward W. Hazen Foundation, n.d. 30 page pamphlet.

Harper, Keith. American denominational history : perspectives on the past, prospects for the future. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : Alabama Press, 2008. Contents: Catholic distinctiveness and the challenge of American denominationalism -- New directions on the congregational way -- Presbyterians in America : denominational history and the quest for identity -- From the margin to the middle to somewhere in between : an overview of American Baptist historiography -- "Everything arose just as the occasion offered" : defining Methodist identity through the history of Methodist polity -- Black Protestantism : a historiographical appraisal -- Mormon historiography -- Interpreting American Pentecostal origins : retrospect and prospect -- "We're all evangelicals now" : the existential and backward historiography of twentieth-century evangelicalism.

Harvey, Van Austin. The Historian and Believer: The Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief. 1969, 1975. Liberal.

Heath, Gordon L. Doing church history : a user-friendly introduction to researching the history of Christianity. Toronto : Clements Academic, 2008.

Helseth, Paul Kjoss. ""Re-Imagining" the Princeton mind: Postconservative Evangelicalism, Old Princeton, and the rise of Neo-Fundamentalism" Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Sep 2002. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3817/is_200209/ai_n9129533/pg_1 From the footnotes: ("Historiographical Dialectics: On Marsden, Dayton, and the Inner Logic of Evangelical History," Christian Scholar's Review 23/1 [1993] 52). For an overview of the debate over the essential character of Evangelicalism, see the entire issues of the Christian Scholar's Review 23/1 (1993) and Modern Reformation 10/2 (March/April 2001). See also the recent "Reflection and Response" involving Michael S. Horton and Roger E. Olson in Christian Scholar's Review 31/2 (2001) 131-68.

Herrera, R. A. Reasons for Our Rhymes: In Inquiry into the Philosophy of History. Eerdmans 2001. In addition to introducing the most significant thinkers on the subject of history, Herrera also pursues the idea that changes in philosophy run parallel to changes in the concept of God...Both an excellent introduction to the philosophy of history and a compelling analysis of the history of ideas - Publisher.

Hodgson, Peter C. edited and translated. Ferdinand Christian Baur on the Writing of Church History. 1968.

Hodgson, Peter Crafts, God in History: Shapes of Freedom. Nashville : Abingdon Press, 1989.

Jones, Preston. "How to serve time: There is a Christian way to study the past without weakening the truth." Christianity Today. April 2, 2001. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/005/2.50.html

Journal of the American Academy of Religion 56, no. 3 (Fall 1988): 397‑416.

Kaufmann, Frank. Foundations of Modern Church History. 1992.

Kearney, Hugh F. "Christianity and the study of history." Downside Review, LXVII (1949), 62-75.

Kennedy, Earl William. HERMAN DOOYEWEERD ON HISTORY: AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND HIM. Fides et Historia 1973 6(1): 1-21. Abstract: An analysis of the thinking of Herman Dooyeweerd, the Dutch Reformed philosopher, especially his ideas on history. Drawing broadly on Abraham Kuyper, Dooyeweerd stresses the centrality of creation, the fall, and redemption in creating a specifically Christian world and life view. He posits fifteen modalities of meaning, one of which is the meaning of history. These modalities are complexly interdependent, and include both retrospective and anticipative components. Within the historical mode, Dooyeweerd asserts that by building on other modal aspects, it is possible to determine the direction of historical development, and then to judge historical events against the norm of that development. That norm is specifically the exercise of cultural power and dominion by the historical actor in response to the biblical command at creation to "have dominion . . . over every living thing that moves upon the earth." The "cultural mandate" transcends questions of motive or morality in historical understanding. From OCLC FirstSearch

Keys, Gordon L. Christian faith and the interpretation of history;: A study of St. Augustine's philosophy of history,. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1966] Have also seen his name spelled "Keyes, Gordon Lincoln."

Kirkpatrick, Frank G. Together Bound: God, History, and the Religious Community. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Klauder, Francis J. S.D.B., Ph.D. The witness of history;: An attempt at briefly stating a Christian interpretation of history. Third in a series of essays on the Christian idea. 35 pages. 1964.

Knox, John: Farmer, W.R., C.F.D. Moule and R.R. Niebuhr (eds.). Christian History and Interpretation: Studies Presented to John Knox. Cambridge UP, 1967. . Contributions by Dodd, Moule, Pittenger et al. With bibliography.

Knudsen, Robert D. History: The Encounter of Christianity with Secular Science. Reformed Theological and Historical Studies. Cherry Hill, New Jersey: Mack Publishing Company, 1976.

Kuklick, Bruce, D. G. Hart eds. Religious Advocacy and American History. Eerdmans. 1997. Foreword / Harry S. Stout. Introduction / Bruce Kuklick, D. G. Hart. Christian Advocacy and the Rules of the Academic Game / George M. Marsden. Traditional Christianity and the Possibility of Historical Knowledge / Mark A. Noll. On Critical History / Bruce Kuklick. Advocacy and Academe / Murray G. Murphey. Marxism, Christianity, and Bias in the Study of Southern Slave Society / Eugene D. Genovese. Advocacy and the Writing of American Women's History / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. In Search of the Fourth "R": The Treatment of Religion in American History Textbooks and Survey Courses / Paul Boyer. What's So Special about the University, Anyway? / D. G. Hart. Understanding the Past, Using the Past: Reflections on Two Approaches to History / Grant Wacker. Transcendentalist's Aristotle: Nonevangelical Reflections on Conviction and the Writing of History / Catherine L. Albanese. Seldon's Choice: Variations on a Theme by Asimov / Paul A. Carter. One Historian's Sundays / Leslie Woodcock Tentler. Afterword / Leo P. Ribuffo.

Lectures upon the philosophy of history. Several volumes from about 1856 to 1907 from authors such as William G. T. Shedd 1856 n.3, Ephraim Emerton 1883 n.5, Arthur Cushman McGiffert 1893 n.7, John Fletcher Hurst 1897 n.11, Albert Henry Newman 1900 n.9, Walter Rauschenbusch 1907 n.21.

Lewry, P. Osmund. The theology of history (Theology today, no. 7). Notre Dame, Ind., Fides Publishers [1969]

Lindberg, Carter. A brief history of Christianity. Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub, 2006. First chapter The responsibility to remember : introduction to the historiography of Christianity.

Loughran, Charles P. "Theology and history: a bibliography." Thought. XXIX, (1954), 101-115.

Lowith, Karl. Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History. 1949.

Maritain, Jacques. ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY. Ed. J. W. Evans. 1957. Catholic Existentialist.

Marrou, Henri I. Theologie de l'histoire. English Time and Timeliness,; translated by Violet Nevile. New York, Sheed and Ward [1969]

Marrou, Herni I. "From the logic of history to an ethic for the historian." Cross Currents. Winter, 1961, 61-77.

Marsden, George and Frank Roberts, eds. A Christian view of history?. William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1975, 1979. Some of the contributors are very good indeed.

Marty, Martin E., We might know what to do and how to do it : on the usefulness of the religious past. Delivered at Westminster College of Salt Lake City, March 20, 1989. Salt Lake City : Westminster College, 1989. (McMurrin‑Henriksen Books)

Masters, Donald C. The Christian idea of history;: A lecture delivered under the auspices of Waterloo Lutheran University on February 14, 1962. 1962.

McClay, Wilfred M. "The continuing irony of American history." First Things 120 February 2002): 20-25. http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0202/articles/mcclay.html

McIntire, C. T. God's work in history: The post-biblical epoch.

McIntire, C. T. Herbert Butterfield: Writings on Christianity and History. 1979.

McIntire, C. T. The focus of historical study: A Christian view. 1980.

McIntire, C. T. The on-going task of Christian historiography. 1974.

McIntire, C. T. & Ronald Wells, History and Historical Understanding. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1984. Scripture, history, and the quest for meaning / Langdon Gilkey ‑‑ Historical study and the historical dimension of our world / C.T. McIntire ‑‑ The difference in being a Christian and the difference it makes‑‑for history / Martin E. Marty ‑‑ Common sense and the spiritual vision of history / George Marsden ‑‑ History, objectivity, and the Christian scholar / M. Howard Rienstra ‑‑ Christian faith and historical method : contradiction, compromise, or tension? / Robert T. Handy ‑‑ Social science history : an appreciative critique / Robert P. Swierenga ‑‑ Christianity, Christian interpretation, and the origins of the French Revolution / Dale Van Kley.

McIntire, C. T. ed. God, History and Historians: An Anthology of Modern Christian Views of History. 1977. Or God, History and the Historians: Modern Christian views of history. 1977.

McIntire. C. T. "Dooyeweerd's philosophy of history" in Legacy of Herman Dooyeweerd: Reflections on critical philosophy in the Christian tradition. 1985.

McIntyre, John. The Christian doctrine of history. 1958.

Mead, Sidney E. "The task of the church historian." The chronicle: a Baptist quarterly. XII (1949) p. 127. The intro has 4 meanings of "history."

Merkley, Paul C. Christian Understanding of the Beginnings, the Process and the Outcome of World History. Edwin Mellon Press. 2001.

Merkley, Paul. REINHOLD NIEBUHR: THE HISTORIAN'S THEOLOGIAN. Queen's Quarterly 1964 71(3): 371-383. Abstract: As Reinhold Niebuhr saw it, our age of reason is built on a false assumption, i.e., faith in progress. The idea of progress could only have been conceived within Christian culture which was born out of a Messianic expectation. The basic premise of the Biblical concept of history is that God reaches down into human affairs and propels events one way or another. "As Heilsgeschichte [sacred history] is the story of man's salvation, mere history is the story of man's developing freedom." Niebuhr confesses to a great deal of respect for the realism of the historian. The historian "ought to welcome the insights" into his subject that Niebuhr offers. The article is based on Niebuhr's The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature (1941-43), Vol. II, chapters 1-4 and 10; and his Faith And History - A Comparison Of Christian And Modern Views Of History (1949).

Michalson, Carl. The Hinge of History an Existential Approach to the Christian Faith. New York, Scribner [1959] Existential theology.

Miller, Charles J. "Is there a Christian approach to history?" Fides et Historia. II, 1 (Fall 1969) 6-7.

Montgomery, John Warwick. History and Christianity. Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1964.

Montgomery, John Warwick. The shape of the past: A Christian response to secular philosophies of history. 1975. Or The shape of the past : an introduction to philosophical historiography. 1962.

Montgomery, John Warwick. Where is History Going: A Christian Response to Secular Philosophies of History. 1969. A companion volume to Shape of the Past. A Christian response to secular philosophies of history. Karl Barth, Paul Tillich and Gordon Clark's philosophies of history are also critiqued. Or Where Is History Going? Essays in Support of the Historical Truth of the Christian Revelation. With a commendatory letter by C. S. Lewis. Grand Rapids, Mich., Zondervan Pub. House [1969]

Moore, Scott H. "Christian History, Providence, and Michel Foucault." Fides et Historia 29, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 1997): 5‑14.

Mortley, Raoul. The Idea of Universal History from Hellenistic Philosophy to Early Christian Historiography. Mellon Press. 1996.

Moyer, William Andrew, III. "Battle for the City on the Hill: Evangelical Interpretations of American History, 1960-1996." Dissertation DAI 1998 58(12): 4781-A. DA9817627 Publication: George Washington U. 1998. 371 pp.

Munk, Arthur W. History and God: Clues to His purpose. 1952. Liberal.

Nash, Ronald H. Christian Faith and Historical Understanding. 1984.

Nash, Ronald H. The Meaning of History. 1999.

Nash, Ronald H. ed. Ideas of History Volume I Speculative Approaches to History and Volume II the Critical Philosophy of History. 2 vols. 1969.

Newman, Albert Henry. "Preliminary observation on the study of church history." Manual of church history. 1900. Conservative Southern Baptist.

Nichols, James Hastings. "Church history and secular history." Church history. XXXI (1944) p. 87.

Niebuhr, Reinhold. Faith And History - A Comparison Of Christian And Modern Views Of History. 1949.

Niebuhr, Reinhold. Beyond Tragedy: Essays on the Christian Interpretation of History.

Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Self and the Dramas of History. 1955. Neo-orthodox.

Nigg, Walter. Die Kirchengeschichtsschreibung: Grundz�ge ihrer historischen Entwicklung. 1934. Looks interesting, I hope it's available in English.

Noll, Mark A. "Traditional Christianity and the possibility of historical knowledge." Christian Scholar's review. 19 (1990) 4:388-406. http://www.cccu.org/resourcecenter/ns_rc_detail.asp?resID=983&parentCatID=158 A revised version appears in Religious Advocacy and American History, eds. Bruce Kuklick and D.G. Hart (Eerdmans, 1997), pp. 28-53

Noll, Mark A. "How We Remember Revivals: The Virtues and Vices of Tribal History." Review of Revival and Revivalism, by Iain H. Murray. Christianity Today 39, no. 5 (24 April 1995): 31, 35.

Noll, Mark A. THE CONFERENCE ON FAITH AND HISTORY AND THE STUDY OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY. Fides et Historia 1978 11(1): 8-18. Abstract: Calls on Christian historians to broaden their audience, their research, and their methodologies while affirming their faith in God's influence on history. Includes an evaluation of the research into early American history (1607-1865) by members of the Conference on Faith and History. From OCLC FirstSearch.

Noll, Mark. History Wars I. "Some recent battles." Books & Culture. Special issue on History Wars. May/June 1999. Vol 5, No 3 pg 30.

Noll, Mark. History Wars II. "Intellectual Fallout." Books & Culture. July/August 1999, Vol. 5, No. 4, Page 22.

Noll, Mark. History Wars III. "Allies?" Books & Culture. Sept/Oct 1999. Vol 5, No 5 pg 38-41.

Noll, Mark. History Wars IV. "A peace from God?" Books & Culture. Nov/Dec 1999. Vol 5 No 6 pg 42.

North, Robert. "Bibliography of works in theology and history." History and Theory. XII, 1 (1973), 55-140.

Ogletree, Thomas W. Christian Faith and History a Critical Comparison of Ernst Troeltsch and Karl Barth. 1965.

On the meaning of history. Geneva, Oikumene [1949?] 91 p. 22 cm. Series Papers of the ecumenical institute, 5. Lectures given at a study conference jointly undertaken by the Ecumenical Institute and the World's Student Christian Federation, July 28‑August 5, 1949.

Ostrander, Rick. "Integrating Faith and History in the Christian College Classroom" http://www.cccu.org/resourcecenter/resID.875,parentCatID.21/ns_rc_detail.asp

Outler, Albert C. THEODOSIUS' HORSE; REFLECTIONS ON THE PREDICAMENT OF THE CHURCH HISTORIAN. Church History 1965 34(3): 251-261. Abstract: The 1964 presidential address to the American Society of Church History introduces some problems of historiography with the observation that an apparently irrational accident in the fifth century altered the course of church history. The principle of uncertainty is built into the process of historical inquiry and makes tentative our knowledge of the past. In representing the human past - "radically historical, yet not merely historical; rooted in nature, yet not merely natural; public and social, yet also inward and personal" - metahistorical judgments are inescapablc. The historian, however, must distinguish his history from his metahistory. The church historian must take seriously the Christian world view but avoid the danger of falling back upon that view to explain historical accidents thus confusing metahistory with history, Heilsgeschichte with Weltgeschichte. "The Christian story, in every episode, exhibits the correlations (positive and negative) between Christian profession and practice, thought and behavior, spiritual community and sociological institution - and both poles in each of these correlations have to be kept in constant view." From OCLC FirstSearch

Panosian, Edward M., David A. Fisher, Mark Sidwell. The providence of God in history. Greenville, S.C.: Bob Jones University Press, 1996. 44 pages with 6 essays.

Pathrapankal, Joseph. Time and history :biblical and theological studies. Eugene, OR : Wipf and Stock Pub, 2005. Contents: Reflections on time and history -- World history and salvation history -- History and prophetic involvement -- Mission of the church in the world -- Biblical interpretation: chance and challenge in our times -- Religious maxims as shaping history: a study on Matthew 5:48 -- God's reign and world religions.

Patrides, C. A. The grand design of God: The literary form of the Christian view of history. 1972.

Paul, William W. "Cultural and Christian presuppositions for the interpretation of history." 1973. Unpublished essay.

Paul, William W. "Toynbee's view of Christianity." Fides et Historia. VI, 1 (1973) 22-29.

Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Predicament of the Christian Historian. Reflections Spring 1998, Volume 1. Center of Theological Inquiry http://www.ctinquiry.org/publications/reflections_volume_1/pelikan.htm also http://www.ctinquiry.org/publications/reflections_volume_1/download_volume_1/pelikan_essay.pdf

Pieper, Josef, 1904‑ �ber das Ende der Zeit. English End of Time: A Meditation on the Philosophy of History ; translated by Michael Bullock. New York : Octagon Books, 1982, c1954.

Pieper, Josef. Hope and History.

Piper, Otto. God In History. 1939. Neo-orthodox.

Pittenger, W. Norman Christian faith and the question of history. Philadelphia, Fortress Press [1973]

Raboteau, Albert J. "Praying the ABCs: Reflections on Faith in History." Cross Currents (Fall 1992): 314‑25.

Rae, Murray. History and hermeneutics. London ; New York : T & T Clark, 2005.

Rauschenbusch, Walter. "The influence of historical studies on theology." The American journal of theology. XI (1907) 111.

Richardson, Alan. History sacred and profane. 1964.

Rienstra, M. Howard. "The problem of a Christian philosophy of history" Fides et Historia. II, 1 (1969), 24-41.

Roberts, T. A. History and Christian apologetic. 1960.

Rushdoony, Rousas John. The Biblical Philosophy of History, (International Library. Philosophical and Historical Studies). Nutley, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1969.

Russell, Jeffrey. "Religious commitment and historical writing." The Christian Scholar. XLV (1962), 11-21.

Russell, Peter. "The challenge of writing Christian history." Fides et Historia. 1989.

Rust, Eric C. History (Faith-learning studies). 1969. A 32 page pamphlet from the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Rust, Eric C. Salvation History: A Biblical interpretation. 1963.

Rust, Eric C. Towards a Theological Understanding of History. New York, Oxford U. 1963.

Rust, Eric. The Christian Understanding of History. 1947. Neo-orthodox.

Salm, Celestine Luke. Studies in Salvation History. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice‑Hall [1964]

Schaeffer, Francis A. Two views of history [sound recording] : meaningfulness of life. Michigan City, Ind. : L'Abri Cassettes, [198‑?]

Schaff, Philip. What Is Church History? A Vindication of the Idea of Historical Development. 1846.

Seerveld, Calvin. Biblical wisdom underneath Vollenhoven's catagories for philosophical historiography. Toronto, ON: Wedge Publishing Foundation. 1973.

Seerveld, Calvin. Dooyeweerd's contribution to the historiography of philosophy. Kampen: J.H. Kok. 1965.

Seerveld, Calvin. The pedagogical strength of a Christian methodology in philosophical historiography Potchefstroom, South Africa: Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education. 1975.

Sheldrake, Philip. Spirituality and History: Questions of Interpretation and Method Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 1998.

Shinn, Roger Lincoln. Christianity and the Problem of History. 1953.

Shotwell, James T. The Faith of an Historian and other essays: An anthology. 1964.

Simpler, Steven H. Roland H Bainton: An Examination of His Reformation Historiography. Edwin Mellon Press. 1985.

Singer, C. G. "The meaning of history." Christianity Today. March 14, March 28, April 11, April 18, 1961.

Singer, C. G. Arnold Toyanbee. From a Christian perspective.

Singer, C. Gregg. "The nature of history." in Christian faith and modern theology: Contemporary evangelical thought. Carl F. H. Henry ed. Channel Press, NY. 1964.

Smit, M. C. The Divine mystery in history: inaugural address delivered on assuming the office of professor of medieval history and of the theory of history in the Free University at Amsterdam, on Tuesday, 27 Sept. 1955. 1955. I have also seen a citation for "The divine mystery in history." Free university quarterly. 5 (1958) 2:120-145. I don't know if it's a book or article or both. It appears that the book is 30 pages long, so it is probably a booklet and also an article.

Smit, M.C. Writings on God and History. Volume One, Selected Studies (1951-1980). Edited by Harry Van Dyke. Translated by Herbert Donald Morton. Jordan Station, Ontario, Canada: Wedge Publishing, 1987.

Smit, M.C. Toward a Christian Conception of History, ed. and trans. Herbert Donald Morton and Harry van Dyke. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2002.

Smith, Page. The Historian and History. 1964.

Solovyov, Vladimir. War, Progress, and the End of History: Three Conversations. Looks at evil and the meaning of history from 3 perspectives.

St. Augustine. City of God.

Stevenson, W. Taylor. "Christian faith and historical studies." Faith and Learning Studies. II (New York, 1964).

Stout, Harry S. "Biography as Battleground: The Competing Legacies of the Religious Historian." Books & Culture 2, no. 4 (July/Aug 1996): 9‑10.

Sullivan, John Edward. Prophets of the West;: An introduction to the philosophy of history. 1970.

Swanson, Roy. (or Swanstrom). History in the making: an introduction to the study of the past. InterVarsity Press. 1978.

Sweeney, Douglas A. "Taking a shot at redemption: A Lutheran considers the Calvin College school of historiography." Books & Culture. Special issue on History Wars. May/June 1999. Vol 5, No 3 pg 43-.

Sweeney, Douglas A. THE ESSENTIAL EVANGELICALISM DIALECTIC: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE EARLY NEO-EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT AND THE OBSERVER-PARTICIPANT DILEMMA. Church History 1991 60(1): 70-84. Abstract: The Reformed and Holiness models for the historiography of early neoevangelicalism during the 1940's-50's function as thesis and antithesis. The purpose of this article is to seek a synthesis for a new evangelical historiography. The Reformed model writes the history of the movement from the perspective of how its intellectual and institutional leaders reformed fundamentalism. The Holiness model, on the other hand, seeks to understand the movement as a dynamic kaleidoscope, from the "bottom up" or at the grass-roots level. Each model is helpful as far as it goes, but neither model by itself will provide a complete portrayal of the movement. What is needed is the complementary use of both models so that the historiography of the movement can grapple with the severe identity crisis within the movement that is suggested by the sources themselves. From America: History And Life

Sweet, Leonard. "Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves: The New Evangelical Historiography."

Sweetman, Robert. "Of Tall Tales and Small Subversive Stories: Postmodern 'Fragmatics' and the Christian Historian." Fides et Historia 28, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 50‑68.

Sykes, Norman. "Some current conceptions of historiography and their significance for Christian Aplogetic." Journal of theological studies. 50 (1949), 32.

Theology and the New Histories / Gary Macy, editor. Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c1999. Introduction: practicing history, practicing theology / Terrence W. Tilley‑‑The changing geography of church history / Justo L. Gonzalez‑‑Universalist pluralism and the new histories / Michael Horace Barnes‑‑History of geography? Gadamer, Foucault, and theologies of tradition / Vincent J. Miller‑‑Rewriting early Christian history / Elizabeth A. Clark‑‑How the lion roars : contexualizing the nine riddles in Amos 3:3‑8 / Barbara Green‑‑Rahner and the "new histories" : everything old is new again / Ann R. Riggs‑‑Meaning and practice in history : Lonerganian perspectives / Donna Teevan‑‑The priest in the movie : On the waterfront as historical theology / James T. Fisher‑‑Revealing resistance : Luise Rinser's celebration and suffering / Pamela Kirk‑‑ Cotton Patch Justice, Cotton Patch Peace: The Sermon on the Mount in the Teachings and Practices of Clarence Jordan / Ann Coble‑‑Liberty in an Age of Coercion and Violence / Franklin H. Littell‑‑Celibacy and Sexual Malpractice: Dimensions of Power and Powerlessness in Patriarchal Society \ Brian F. Linnane‑‑Experiential Learning in Service of a Living Tradition \ Margaret R. Pfell.

Tillich, Paul. The interpretation of history. 1936. Neo-Orthodox.

Trimingham, J. Spencer, History in two dimensions: A Christian interpretation of history as being an equation between time and eternity. New York, Vantage Press, 1983.

Van Dyk, John. A Christian approach to the study of medieval history: In two parts. 1971.

van Leeuwen, Arend Th. CHRISTIANITY IN WORLD HISTORY the Meeting of the Faiths of East and West.

Vander Molen, Ronald J. Fides et Historia. III, 1 (1970), 41-51. Responses IV, 2 (1972) 85-93. And V, 1, (1973), 109-112. Earl William Kennedy renews discussion V, 1-2 (1973), 117-21. And another response VII, 1 (1974), 26-36.

VanderMolen, Ronald J. THE CHRISTIAN HISTORIAN: APOLOGIST OR SEEKER? Fides et Historia 1970 3(1): 41-56. Abstract: Reviews John W. Montgomery's Where is History Going? Montgomery analyzes the theology and historical methodologies of Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Gordon H. Clark, and Rudolph Bultmann, as well as the historical insights offered by secular historians Wilhelm Dilthey and Charles Beard. Montgomery's categories are too narrow and arbitrary and his criticism of subjectivism is misplaced. Montgomery wishes to make history an apologia for Christianity rather than a search for truth. From OCLC FirstSearch

Voskuil, Louis J. "History as process: meaning in change." Pro Rege. 16 (1988) 4:22-31.

Voskuil, Louis J. "History: sound and fury signifying nothing?" Pro Rege. 16 (1988) 3:2-12.

Waibel, Paul R. "History." in Opening the American Mind: The Integration of Biblical Truth in the Curriculum of the University. W. David Beck ed. 1991.

Ward, Paul. "The Christian and history teaching." Religion in life. XXVI (1957), 490-500.

Wells, Ron. History through the eyes of faith: Western Civilization and the Kingdom of God. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.

Wells, Ronald A. ed. History and the Christian Historian. W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1998. Contents: Perspective and Theory What Difference Might Christian Perspectives Make? / George M. Marsden. Between "Romance" and "True History": Historical Narrative and Truth Telling in a Postmodern Age / Shirley A. Mullen. Critical Historical Judgment and Biblical Faith / C. Stephen Evans. History in Search of Meaning: The Conference on Faith and History / D. G. Hart. Discrete Themes and Subjects Men, Women, and God: Some Historiographical Issues / Margaret Lamberts Bendroth. Potential of Missiology for the Crises of History / Mark A. Noll. Whose Story, Which Story? Memory and Identity among Baptists in the South / Bill J. Leonard. Selves and Others in Early New England: Refashioning American Puritan Studies / Richard Pointer. Little White Church: Historiographical Revisions about Religion in Rural America / Robert P. Swierenga. Decoding Conflicted History: Religion and the Historiography on Northern Ireland / Ronald A. Wells. Applications for Teaching History Teaching History, the Gospel, and the Postmodern Self / Jerry L. Summers. Doing Justice in History: Using Narrative Frames Responsibly / G. Marcille Frederick. Christianity, History, and Multiculturalism / Edwin J. Van Kley.

Wengert, Timothy J. and Charles W. Brockwell, Jr. eds. Telling the Churches' Stories: Ecumenical Perspectives on Writing Christian History. 1995.

Wilburn, Ralph G. The historical shape of faith. 1966.

Williams, Charles. The Descent of the Dove. "A gifted author and believer quests for the meaning of Christian history."

Williams, George Huntston. "Church history: from historical theology to the theology of history." In Protestant Thought in the Twentieth Century. Arnold S. Nash ed. 1951. A history of American church historiography.

Witte, John Jr. Confessions of a Christian Historian. First Things, 139 (January 2004): 16-17. http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0401/opinion/witte.html.

Wolterstorff, N. "On avoiding historicism." Philosophia Reformata. 45 (1980) 178-185.

Wood, H. G. Christianity and the nature of history,. 1936.

Wood, H. G. ed. The Kingdom of God and History. 1938.

Wood, Laurence W. God and history :the dialectical tension of faith and history in modern thought. Lexington, Ky. : EmethPublisher.Com, 2004. Contents: pt. 1. The ancient and pre-modern world background. The emergence of historical consciousness and critical thinking -- Stoicism and neo-Platonism-- the fusion of subject and object -- Athens or Jerusalem? : the academy of the church? -- The invention of scientific history -- pt. 2. Modern philosophy and the rise of critical history. Cartesian historiography -- The logic of historical probability, individuality, and relativity -- Kant : the comprehensive dualism of modernism -- Hegel : absolute knowledge and world history -- Kierkegaard's dualistic philosophy and the schizoid position of modern thought -- Heidegger : truth as the self-disclosure of being -- pt. 3. Modern theology and the rise of critical history. Martin K�hler : the historical Jesus and the historic, biblical Christ -- Karl Barth : the Word of God and history -- Rudolf Bultmann : the divorce of Historie and Geschichte -- Gerhard Ebeling : "pure word" and "mere fact" -- pt. 4. History and eschatology : the dialectical synthesis of appearance and reality. Eschatology and transcendence : overcoming the nature/supernature dichotomy -- Space-time and eternity.

Yost, John K. "Reinhold Niebuhr's Revised Christian Interpretation of History" Research Studies, 1959, Washington State University Press.

Other Sites

Intervarsity Bibliography for Christian Historians

Boyd, J. http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/jonatboyd/history.html has a great annotated bib.