Tag: history
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Need for Historical Perspective on Poverty
One of my favorite niche economics blogs is Gavin Kennedy's Adam Smith's Lost Legacy. Many of his posts go after people using Adam Smith's "invisible hand" metaphor. He tirelessly points out that Smith used the metaphor only twice in The Wealth of Nations, and on neither occasion was it used to describe the economics in…
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Searching for a Way to Share History
New York Times: Searching for a Way to Share History KALININGRAD, RUSSIA — On a balmy Saturday afternoon, there was a real sense of anticipation among the hundreds of students sitting in a lecture theater at Immanuel Kant State University, awaiting a rare chance to quiz the foreign ministers of Germany, Poland and Russia —…
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Daniel Kirk on History and the Bible
Daniel Kirk, NT professor at Fuller Seminary, has just written three fine posts on history and the Bible. (First post and second post.) He has been particularly addressing the notion that the degree to which the Bible matches up with precise facts of history determines its validity. At the end of his third post today,…
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Church Fathers on Women
Molly, at Adventures in Mercy, is doing a series of posts on what the Early Church Fathers had to say about women. So far, she has written about Calvin and Augustine. Check it out!