Herbert Butterfield - Hardcover

McIntire, C.T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300098073 ISBN 13: 9780300098075

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2004

02 Herbert Butterfield (1900-1979) was an important British historian and religious thinker whose ideas, in particular his concept of a “Whig interpretation of history,” remain deeply influential. In this intellectual biography—the first comprehensive study of Butterfield—C.T. McIntire focuses on the creative processes that lay behind Butterfield’s intellectual accomplishments.Drawing on his investigations into Butterfield’s vast and diverse output of published and unpublished work, McIntire explores Butterfield’s ideas and methods. He describes Butterfield’s lifelong devotion to his Methodist faith and shows how his Christian spirituality animated his historical work. He also traces the theme of dissent that ran through Butterfield’s life and work, presenting a man who found himself at odds with prevailing convictions about history, morality, politics, religion, and teaching, a man who elevated the notion of dissent into an ethic of living in tension with any established system. “This important and original work is an intellectual biography that focuses on the life and achievements of a major historian in mid-twentieth-century England.”—Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago
Herbert Butterfield (1900-1979) was an important British historian and religious thinker whose ideas, in particular his concept of a “Whig interpretation of history,” remain deeply influential. In this intellectual biography—the first comprehensive study of Butterfield—C.T. McIntire focuses on the creative processes that lay behind Butterfield’s intellectual accomplishments.Drawing on his investigations into Butterfield’s vast and diverse output of published and unpublished work, McIntire explores Butterfield’s ideas and methods. He describes Butterfield’s lifelong devotion to his Methodist faith and shows how his Christian spirituality animated his historical work. He also traces the theme of dissent that ran through Butterfield’s life and work, presenting a man who found himself at odds with prevailing convictions about history, morality, politics, religion, and teaching, a man who elevated the notion of dissent into an ethic of living in tension with any established system. “This important and original work is an intellectual biography that focuses on the life and achievements of a major historian in mid-twentieth-century England.”—Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago

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"This important and original work is an intellectual biography that focuses on the life and achievements of a major historian in mid-twentieth-century England."-Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago

About the Author:

C.T. McIntire is professor of religion and history at the University of Toronto and fellow of Victoria College, Toronto.

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