Based on a conference held at Wheaton College in the spring of 1994.
Includes bibliographical references.
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
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 histoian's Sundays / Leslie Woodcock Tentler