Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: American Revivalist Tradition (ART)

  • Dr Buch’s Full Listings of Articles, Essays, Chapters, and Books

    Dr Buch’s Full Listings of Articles, Essays, Chapters, and Books

      Americans Have Not Turned Against Higher Ed. Reports of the sector’s cratering popularity are mistaken, The Chronicle of Higher Education,   By Kevin Carey and Sophie Nguyen October 15, 2024 Americans are losing faith in the value of college. Or so we are told.   As many colleges grapple with declining enrollment and intense…

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  • The Sea of Faith and The Theological Technical House of Horror (Paid Advertising)

    The Sea of Faith and The Theological Technical House of Horror (Paid Advertising)

          David Miller Moderator Top contributor       Hi Neville – You have informed us that: “Most educated Christians are more heretical than the ancient Christians of Rome.” I will list some of their modern all-pervasive heresies: 1. The Marcionite Heresy: That the God of the NT is loving and merciful, whereas…

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  • How Entertainment Has Been Used to Keep Uneducated Persons Ignorant

    How Entertainment Has Been Used to Keep Uneducated Persons Ignorant

    In the event of Donald Trump’s “Music Town Hall” meeting in Philadelphia suburbs, we can see how Entertainment Has Been Used to Keep Uneducated Persons Ignorant.                 Two attendees separately had medical issues at Donald Trump’s town hall with supporters in the Philadelphia suburbs on Tuesday, the former…

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  • ART in Helene

    ART in Helene

    From Drew Goins, “An act of God — and one of Satan? — in North Carolina,” The Washington Post, October 4, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. EDT         If you want to see what the American Revivalist Tradition (ART) looks like in American politics, in 2024, this is it at its worst:  …

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  • The Challenge to AASR

    The Challenge to AASR

    Getting knocked back for a publication is not a concern, in and of itself, but the issue is how today’s academics are not yet understanding the emerging scholarship of cognition histories and cognition sociology.       Below is such a rejection letter. Here is the edited submission of the draft where there was scope…

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  • Anti-DEI bureaucracy in Australia?

    Anti-DEI bureaucracy in Australia?

    Dear friends, One wonders if there is also an anti-DEI bureaucracy in Australia? “American Colleges Must Comply With a Whole New Bureaucracy to Satisfy Republicans’ DEI Bans.” Let’s be frank and clear. The anti-DEI bureaucracy is uncompassionate in the anti-Christ spirit of political meanness and ressentiment. — https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-new-anti-dei-bureaucracy?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_10289606_nl_Academe-Today_date_20240627&cid=at&source=&sourceid=&sra=true — Featured Image: Meanness and painful human condition, pictured as a wooden human…

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  • Yet Another Reason to Employ-Contract Me

    Yet Another Reason to Employ-Contract Me

    Dear friends,     Yet Another Reason to Employ-Contract Me: the coming wave to Australia of the next stage in the Culture-History Warfare if Trump is elected, in the United States, at the end of year. What the American commentators are saying is, that Americanised change is coming from these types of proposals:     Removing the words…

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  • Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics? Part 2: The History and Future of Apologetics Courses in Christian colleges: The Historiographical Challenges from Marc Bloch (1886-1944)

    Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics? Part 2: The History and Future of Apologetics Courses in Christian colleges: The Historiographical Challenges from Marc Bloch (1886-1944)

    The History and Future of Apologetics Courses in Christian colleges: The Historiographical Challenges from Marc Bloch (1886-1944). By Neville Buch, Ph.D., MPHA 2023 PESA Conference   INTRODUCTION The paper is an examination on the history and future of apologetics courses in Christian colleges, with an argument that such courses are either collapsing or being redesigned,…

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  • Critical Theory, Puritan-ART World, and Progressivism

    Critical Theory, Puritan-ART World, and Progressivism

    I have been talking about critical theory in among many of my blog articles and posts, and I am concerned that concept needs to untangled truth from the criticisms of the Puritan world and John Bunyan’s idea of progressivism.       Here is a section of a definition from Wikipedia that sums up well…

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