"Today we attempt or think we write history as an exact chronological and comprehensive analysis of an event or era. But the Scriptures are selective, story based accounts rather than our modern journalistic approach to history."
Is it not possible that the intervention of Divine Providence in "history" leaves mere "historians" without the appropriate tools for "writing" it?
Of such incidents in human history, Dr. Ralph Sockman once observed that "when we examine [these] things, we must put away our little finite measuring rods."
Americans have a more recent example of how such "chronological and comprehensive" "writing" of history has missed the real essence of its own remarkable story and may be threatening the future liberty of millions.
America's history books have focused on names, dates, battle, places, and such, and have failed to tell the remarkable story of the real "miracle" of America and what its Founders called the "hand of Divine Providence" in America's appearance as a place of liberty and opportunity for oppressed individuals from all over the globe. As a result, its citizens have not been excited about the "light of liberty" which burst upon the world, and liberty's underlying essential principles.
One historian, Richard Frothingham, decided to write such an ideas-based history in 1886, tracing America's rise among the nations, not by the usual means, but by the ideas and principles revealed to those who participated in the framing of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. His remarkable work now can be read on line.
Hopefully, this post does not take this discussion too far afield. The Resurrection story, however, as a purely "historical" event, unaccompanied by the relationship of that event to the Creator of life and the Providential hand of that Creator in the ongoing story of civilization, like the story of America, would be robbed of its real significance.
Sounds like Hillsdale College.
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