--Antony of Egypt (with a bit of Athanasius thrown in) --Dante Alighieri
Welcome, gentlemen!
“Good historical writing constructs our sense of who we are by a real engagement with the strangeness of the past. . . . Bad history is any kind of narrative that refuses this difficulty and enlargement–whether by giving us a version of the past that is just the present in fancy dress or by dismissing the past as a wholly foreign country whose language we shall never learn.”
You go, Rowan. May my book (Patron Saints for Postmoderns, forthcoming from IVP–the pretext for this blog) provide the “good” kind of history!
