This module will provide students with the learning skills necessary to make the most of their studies in History. It concentrates upon their conceptions of the subject and their strategies as learners, in order to enable them more effectively to monitor and develop their skills and understanding. ...
Learning History Lecture – Semester 2 Week 3
Belief, Ideology & History
Definitions
- Belief
o Mental conviction; in theology, the trust that a believer places in God, the
Christian virtue in faith;
o The mental action, condition or habit of trusting or to hace confidence in a
person or thing; trust, dependence, reliance, confidence, faith;
o Something believed, a supposition of belief
- Ideology
o The study of ideas; that branch of philosophy or psychology that deals
with the origin and nature of ideas;
o The study of the way in which ideas are expressed in language
o Abstract speculation
o A systematic scheme of ideas, usually relating to politics, economics or
society
- Implications for History
o Religious belief & political ideology, purely conceived, are directly
opposed to the philosophical relativism often employed by historians
o Emphasising shades of grey over ‘absolute truths’, university level
history examines differing opinions, and encourages independent
judgement
o ‘Religion provides a useful focal point or way in to the study of beliefs
and ideology… [E]ven Marx developed his critique of ideology by
starting first with his critique of religion.’
- History in the Hebrew Bible
o Time and experience seen as providentially guided, its writing
directly inspired by God; thematic unity throughout Old Testament
o Protagonists & antagonists subject to Yahweh (divine
orchestrator)
o Since the divine authority was incontestable, biblical history
excluded the comparison of conflicting accounts and the possibility
of doubt
o Characterised by recurrent pattern of sin and retribution; cyclical
understandings of divine causation
o Strictly linear & directional in nature from the Fall to the
Apocalypse & Last Judgement; teleological (Greek telos, the end
point)
- Early Christian History
o Continuity with the Old Testament, Sin-Redemption Cycle
o OT and NT prophesies about the coming Christ (Messiah)
o Testimony of the Apostles, Early Fathers (Patristics)
o Eusebius of Caesarea (269-339), History of the Church
Bishop in Israel, model for future historians
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