The Meaning of History Bourke And only with his Incarnation

And only with his Incarnation does he establish his Church and all its attendant

(1863–1948) was a French Dominican priest

He was not merely irascible—he was cruel

as Rahner writes at the close of his Preface

The Meaning of History Bourke And only with his IncarnationBy 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