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The Basis of Belief tells the story of the University of Minnesota s unofficial educational agenda. Steven Keillor considers selected controversies that have been energetically debated by educators, administrators, and students for over a century at the University. Keillor describes the clash between an experimental, scientific basis for knowledge and a reliance on testimony, as in stories and first-hand accounts. Which means of obtaining know...

The author examines how rural Minnesotans used the principles of cooperation to gain control of local economies and to exercise that control according to democratic principles. It is also a biography of rural people, told in their own words through newspapers and minutes of local meetings.

Steven J. Keillor presents the bold thesis that divine judgment can be a fruitful category for historical investigation. In fact, he makes the case that Christianity is rightly grasped as an interpretation of history more than a worldview or philosophy. Grounding his thesis first on a study of God's judgments in the teaching of both the Old and New Testaments, Keillor then revisits two prominent events in U.S. history, the burning of Washingto...

In this groundbreaking work, Keillor examines how rural Minnesotans used the principles of cooperation in their attempt to gain control of local economies and to exercise that control according to democratic principles.

This collection of travel essays, arguments, poems and devotional reflections is a call to a return to the fortress - Jesus Christ. He is the only true source of hope, as many who have been captivated by His love can testify. Yet our culture is increasingly captivated (in an ominous sense) by false hopes marketed at increasing profit by the "athletes, actors, self-proclaimed kings, " who are increasingly our chosen heroes. In these essays, the...

Today Christianity is challenged on a historical basis as well as being debated on a philosophical and metaphysical level. Relying on essential Christian assumptions and on the best of contemporary historical scholarship, historian Steven J. Keillor refutes the challenges against Christianity with provocative, compelling, and ribustly pro-Christian readings of events in U.S. history.