The Meaning of History Bourke (1868–1943) was an Irish Dominican

(1868–1943) was an Irish Dominican priest and scholar

He was not merely irascible—he was cruel

And only with his Incarnation does he establish his Church and all its attendant

Bouyer entered the Catholic Church in 1939 and became a prominent figure in the Catholic theological movements

The Meaning of History Bourke (1868–1943) was an Irish DominicanBy Henri Irne Marrou A spirited effort to free history and historians from a positivism induced torpor, The Meaning of History offers a stirring rebuke to the gnostic, propagandistic, or technocratic tendencies of modern historical methods. The real historian, Henri Irne Marrou asserts, is aware of his finitude and accepts with simplicity the fact that he is not God, and thus acquires a keen sense of the complexity of being and of the situations of