Znaczenie religijności chrześcijańskiej historyka dla jego badań. Zarys problemu
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P. F. Nowakowski, Znaczenie religijności historyka dla jego badań.pdf (5.17 MB)
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2007
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Wydawnictwo Księgarnia Akademicka
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The article touches upon the ever-present issue of the methodological assumptions of historical research. The author argues that the use of what is labelled "methodological agnosticism," or "methodological atheism" does not increase the objectivity of the research process but it merely establishes a framework of reference different from the one offered by Christian methodology. While referring to the Frommian definition of religion, he claims that in this manner one religious approach is replaced by another whose nonreligious character is only seeming. In his opinion, the non-Christian ways of grasping reality that are popular in contemporary historical science, i.e. agnosticism, Marxism, or postmodernism, are based on a greater number of assumptions which restrict the freedom of a historian to ask questions. As a consequence, paradoxically, it is the Christian historian who has the greatest freedom to formulate theses and to generate hypotheses in his historical research. Hence, the author postulates the investigation into and the use of the research method based on the epistemological conclusions stemming from Bernard Lonergan's theological concept of the human spirit.
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Znaczenie religijności chrześcijańskiej historyka dla jego badań. Zarys problemu, [W:] Religijność – wymiar prywatny i publiczny, red. P. Nowakowski, W. Szymborski, Kraków 2007, s. 25-36.