Re-Imaging Psycho-History

Abstract

“In the writing of history, the discipline required is that of constantly guarding against the temptation of treating the datum at hand, whether it be a document, an artifact, a statistical chart, a tombstone epitaph, or whatever, in its literal givenness as if it exhausted that in which the historian is most deeply interested… With very few exceptions, such as Charles Williams' The Descent of the Dove, a truly imaginative history of Christianity is yet to be written.”