Bringing Chaos to Order:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Bringing Chaos to Order: "
Richard Ascough

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082795
Doc. No	:	LA126424
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157430108X376546‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Richard Ascough
Title & Author	:	Bringing Chaos to Order: [Article] : Historical Memory and the Manipulation of History\ Richard Ascough
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Theology
Date	:	2008
Volume/ Issue Number	:	15/3-4
Page No	:	280–303
Abstract	:	In modern approaches to biblical and classical studies enlightenment scientific models have dominated historical investigation. As such, the notion of memories and traditions, even when they are assumed to be invented, are presented as reflecting a linear projection of history, with singular causes of change. Modern science, however, has moved beyond the Newtonian view of mechanics that undergirds such a view and is working with models of chaos and complexity. Social scientists and humanists are lagging behind and are only now beginning to understand the implications for their disciplines. This paper adds another voice to the small but growing cadre of promoters of a non-linear notion of historiography by noting its implications for a project of redescribing Graeco-Roman antiquity. In modern approaches to biblical and classical studies enlightenment scientific models have dominated historical investigation. As such, the notion of memories and traditions, even when they are assumed to be invented, are presented as reflecting a linear projection of history, with singular causes of change. Modern science, however, has moved beyond the Newtonian view of mechanics that undergirds such a view and is working with models of chaos and complexity. Social scientists and humanists are lagging behind and are only now beginning to understand the implications for their disciplines. This paper adds another voice to the small but growing cadre of promoters of a non-linear notion of historiography by noting its implications for a project of redescribing Graeco-Roman antiquity.
Descriptor	:	CHAOS THEORY
Descriptor	:	CHRISTIAN ORIGINS
Descriptor	:	HISTORICAL TRAJECTORY
Descriptor	:	HISTORIOGRAPHY
Descriptor	:	LORD'S SUPPER
Descriptor	:	MONOCAUSALITY
Descriptor	:	ROMAN HISTORY
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157430108X376546‬