History

[dairygirl4u2c]

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[curtins]

what?

[crusader1234]

I'd say I do it for fun.

[Iacobus]

When I have studied history I haven't paid extra attention to the question of if the Church is true or not.

[dairygirl4u2c]

badly worded...

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[yiannii]

I have looked into Christian history because I think that learning where we come from is very important - only to have affirmed that the Church was clearly defined even in 100 AD.

[Cam42]

Considering that this is more or less the same poll stated twice, I will paste my answer from the other thread...as not to be inconsistent......

[quote]We come to know God (and ultimately His Church) through Faith and Reason. We are compelled as Christians to know and defend the Church. That is Apologetics. As Catholics, we need to be able to, to a greater or lesser degree, prove the authenticity of the Church.

Much of your poll is discussed by this current Holy Father in his various encyclicals, but no more important is Fides et Ratio.[/quote]

Cam42

[Winchester]

I do it to make my popery seem more factual.

[God Conquers]

I do it in order to make coherent polls.

[Deus te Amat]

I do it for fun... but also to be able to teach others when they desire to learn... and even when they dont

[Archaeology cat]

I can't really answer any of the choices. If you study history with a predetermined outcome in mind, you will (subconsciously, if not deliberately) make the data fit your predetermined outcome. Instead, you should look at the material and then determine what it can tell you. So I guess I would answer that I study history in order to see what happened, whatever that may be.

[Ora et Labora]

[quote name='Deus_te_Amat' post='1313280' date='Jul 5 2007, 02:53 AM']I do it for fun... but also to be able to teach others when they desire to learn... and even when they dont[/quote]

Same here.

[jeffpugh]

I do it "for fun" as well. I'm interesting in seeing what was goin on with the Church way back then. It only re-affirms my belief.

[dairygirl4u2c]

[quote]I can't really answer any of the choices. If you study history with a predetermined outcome in mind, you will (subconsciously, if not deliberately) make the data fit your predetermined outcome. Instead, you should look at the material and then determine what it can tell you. So I guess I would answer that I study history in order to see what happened, whatever that may be.[/quote]

maybe i didn't phrase the choice optimally, but isn't choice two for you then?

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='dairygirl4u2c' post='1317702' date='Jul 8 2007, 04:27 AM']maybe i didn't phrase the choice optimally, but isn't choice two for you then?[/quote]

I suppose that could work.

[Groo the Wanderer]

I study history cause I love seeing the development of humanity, with all its pimples and pustules...






...and cause I have it for the next 5 weeks in school....

[Justified Saint]

For those who voted A:

From the eminent Catholic historian Christopher Dawson: "There has certainly been a tendency among Catholic writers to make history a department of apologetics and to idealise medieval culture in order to exalt their religious ideals."

History can surely be used for apologetic purposes, but there is a danger in that which Dawson rightly senses as undermining the very study of history, which would ultimately make it useless for any true apologetic.

Edited July 16, 2007 by Justified Saint

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Justified Saint' post='1330382' date='Jul 15 2007, 11:42 PM']For those who voted A:

From the eminent Catholic historian Christopher Dawson: "There has certainly been a tendency among Catholic writers to make history a department of apologetics and to idealise medieval culture in order to exalt their religious ideals."

History can surely be used for apologetic purposes, but there is a danger in that which Dawson rightly senses as undermining the very study of history, which would ultimately make it useless for any true apologetic.[/quote]
I don't really like any of the options so I just picked the "Pretend that I have studied" one.

There are lots of reasons why I study different aspects of history at different times and I can't think of one reason that applies to all apart from some extreme generalization.

[Justified Saint]

And that seems rather appropriate since, unless you are an adherent of one Hegelianism or another, history is the study of the multiform and the particular.

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Justified Saint' post='1332648' date='Jul 17 2007, 01:35 PM']And that seems rather appropriate since, unless you are an adherent of one Hegelianism or another, history is the study of the multiform and the particular.[/quote]


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