A Christian Worldview of History: What does this mean to me?
As an inspiring historian, my perspective on a Christian worldview of history is to acknowledge God's absolute power of control over all things, including the past; he is the alpha and the omega. As Christians, we are called to submit ourselves to the greater powers of His divine authority.
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End." Revelation 22:13 NIV
Our role as historians is not to interpret how God controls all things or why God allowed certain events to happen. Doing so passes judgment, creating a narrow-minded and false delusion of what Christians should be doing; this is not what God wants us to do. Simply put, we are not called to condemn the events of the past, but to offer guidance and consideration of the historical past.
Another viewpoint, a Christian worldview of History, is to have a complete understanding that not all history will be centered around biblical faith. Historian and author John Fea writes in his Why Study History?, "History is more about the study of human than it is about the study of God." (1)
Studying people's history teaches us how to view and think about the past, a reflection of one's story. For this approach, it is necessary to be able to recognize objectively without a biased agenda. It is important to interpret and analyze the past through the truth of reason and not through a small lens to fit a one-sided narrative.
