"I do not think there is a Christian shape to history in the sense that things move according to God's plan in any discernible way. I think a Christian approaches history with a sense that human life matters and has meaning and that it is both possible and important to tell the truth. Perhaps that constitutes a Christian approach to history because none of those things can be taken for granted now, even among people practicing history. There are people who practice history who think that it is a branch of the creative arts in the sense that we impose patterns on the past. I believe that we discover patterns in the past."
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University of Cambridge alumniUniversity of Cambridge facultyHistorians from IrelandCatholics from IrelandFellows of the British Academy
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Confronting the Church's Past An interview with Eamon Duffy (16 June 2004)
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