Douglas Fyfe’s Reviews > Priests of History: Stewarding the Past in an Ahistoric Age > Status Update

What do you make of it? The premise presented in the blurb - that we live in an ahistoric age - seems wrong to me. The idea of being "priests" of history of also strikes me as wrong headed too.

The title is a play on “priests of nature” as a title given to scientists (natural philosophers at the time). It’s certainly not the book I thought it was going to be based on the blurb. It starts off a bit “here’s everything that’s wrong with the world and why a lack of historical perspective is the problem” but then it hits a sweet spot and makes a fairly good case for how things like ideology rather than reflection is the driver of many. I’m currently up to the section on people we should know, slaves and aboriginal activists, who were shaped and driven by Christianity but their faith gets written out of the story in modern retellings (such as Cooper and Nicholls).