“Give me that old-time Religion”: The Postmodernist Plot of the Theologians?

Friesen, Paul

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“…And then, just to annoy those of us who reject the fatalistic notion that history is circular, in 1998 we find Paul Friesen raising, after a long absence, the question of the specific role and authority of the theologian in doing religious history. 38 This foray, however, is almost the mirrorimage of that of Nick Walsh, four decades ago. Paul's paper wades bravely into the murky waters of a current debate, so current that it continues in the latest issue of SR, about whether theology bears not only any similarity to, but shares any compatibility with, religious studies.…”

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The Three-Headed Calf: Triple Vision and the Canadian Society of Church History

Beardsall¹

1999

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I would like, at this, the fortieth annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Church History, to explore with you some aspects of the history of our Society. Because I am a student of the history of evangelical Christianity, I will begin with a personal testimony. And because I have been nurtured in the bosom of liberal theology, I would like to focus our thoughts around a story by the prairie author Sandra Birdsell, for whom I frequently have the honour of being mistaken.First, then, the testimony. It happened in the cafeteria at the University of Ottawa a rather unlikely setting for anything momentous, but that is part of the genre, isn't it? The Canadian Society of Church History was on lunch break, and a large number of us had gathered around one long table to engage in a number of conversations. There we were, women and men, at different stages of life and scholarship, historians, religionists, and theologians, all sharing mediocre food and great insights, crosspollinating our disciplines, and enjoying ourselves. It was for me one of those expansive, blissful moments, one in which I experienced what is best described by Marguerite Van Die, in her 1992 presidential address on nineteenth-century religious experience: I sensed "not only the bonds of a community set apart in sacred time and space . . . but also . . . the continuity of the faith and the generations." 1 I was filled with gratitude for

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The Three-Headed Calf: Triple Vision and the Canadian Society of Church History

Beardsall¹

1999

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“Give me that old-time Religion”: The Postmodernist Plot of the Theologians?

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