ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315018577/389c1d69-bf6d-4f43-8610-58d40a6d0a1a/content/Inline_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> History, like God, bears the stamp of its creator. And just as we speak of an anthropomorphic conception of God, we may speak of an anthropomorphic conception of history which men have fashioned in their own image. The scorn of most historians today for the sixteenth-century chronicles is matched by the distrust of the scientific age in the fundamentalist's conception of God. But whether or not we can learn much about God from the fundamentalists, we can learn much about the men who wrote that God into theology by studying their concepts of him. And whether or not we can learn much about the facts of history by studying the sixteenth-century chronicles, we can learn much about the sixteenth century by studying the concepts of history which determined the nature of these chronicles.
