The Meaning of History spiritual Claudel achieved prominence in twentieth-century

Claudel achieved prominence in twentieth-century French literature for his unique prose style and powerful verse dramas

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Each of the twenty councils studied in this volume had its origin in a particular crisis within or around the Church—a crisis that by no means received an immediate or convenient resolution

The Meaning of History spiritual Claudel achieved prominence in twentieth-centuryBy Henri Irne Marrou A spirited effort to free history and historians from a positivism induced torpor, The Meaning of History offers a stirring rebuke to the gnostic, propagandistic, or technocratic tendencies of modern historical methods. The real historian, Henri Irne Marrou asserts, is aware of his finitude and accepts with simplicity the fact that he is not God, and thus acquires a keen sense of the complexity of being and of the situations of