Category Calvinism
The Rogue Reverend: A Tale of Deception and Fraud (part 3 of 3).
(continued from part 2) Reporters at the Cincinnati Enquirer eventually did the most to put the pieces together. For the last week of his life, Schade had lodged at the hotel and had entertained a stream of visitors, mostly Germans investing in his Panama colonization project. Schade had associates in this plan too, but […]
The Rogue Reverend: A Tale of Deception and Fraud (part 2 of 3)
(continued from part 1) From the evidence in today’s digital newspaper databases, an historian can easily recognize that Schade was a difficult character who brought trouble everywhere he went. But to each new place he arrived, in his time, he cut the image of a respectable, albeit odd, German minister. While stories of Schade’s troubles […]
The Rogue Reverend: A Tale of Deception and Fraud (part 1 of 3)
In 1899, a German Reformed minister named Augustus E. Schade self-published a book called The Philosophy of History.[1] The book was pure sophistry, some four hundred densely-filled pages of esoteric nonsense masquerading as scholarship. It is a window into the mind and career of a huckster. Not just an intellectual fraud, Schade’s entire career as […]
Book review: Robert Tracy McKenzie, A Little Book for New Historians: Why and How to Study History (InterVarsity Press, 2019).
Book Review: Robert Tracy McKenzie, A Little Book for new Historians: Why and How to Study History (InterVarsity Press, 2019) This is a well-written but fairly standard history methods book with an interesting Christian and conservative perspective. Like dozens of authors before him, McKenzie begins with a definition of history that draws a distinction between […]
Gordon Clark: Presbyterian Philosopher
My brother’s new book is now available. It is an intellectual history of an underappreciated Presbyterian thinker. Friends interested in religious history should consider reviewing this for journals.
Michael J Douma 