The Meaning of History Bourke is humanity’s susceptibility to the

is humanity’s susceptibility to the fickle dictates of ideology and its inscrutable capacity for brutality

Bouyer entered the Catholic Church in 1939 and became a prominent figure in the Catholic theological movements

(1863–1948) was a French Dominican priest

He was not merely irascible—he was cruel

his works in English include Liturgical Preludes

The Meaning of History Bourke is humanity’s susceptibility to theBy 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