Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Neville Buch

John Moses. Anglican Historiography: Conservative Historiography and the Philosophy of John Moses (HAPI Past Series)

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This essay explores the historiography of John Anthony Moses, a preeminent Australian historian and staff member of the University of Queensland’s (UQ) school of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry (HAPI) from 1965 to 1994. Moses is characterized by his unique integration of secular Rankean methodology with an acute sensitivity to church history, religion, and theology as essential drivers of historical change. His work is grounded in German Historicism, which seeks to understand the past within the specific hermeneutic frame of its own time, contrasting sharply with the “British empirical style” that often takes historical testimony at face value. By examining his seminal contributions to German labour history, the Fischer controversy, and the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the essay demonstrates how Moses uses historical inquiry as a form of “reflective ascent” to uncover the patterns of power and ideology that shaped the 20th century.

 

 

Series Abstract: For the past few years, I have been researching and writing about the defunct Department of History, University of Queensland, 1911-2000. It will take a few more years before a tome on the subject may be published. In the meantime, it has occurred to me to write up on the past academics of what is now called the school of “Historical and Philosophy Inquiry”. It is certainly appropriate for myself as my career at UQ began in this direction of interdisciplinary thought. The series publishes the articles in no particular order, and selection is based on the availability of materials.

 

 

https://www.academia.edu/165123918/John_Moses_Anglican_Historiography

 

 

 

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Neville Buch

Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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