Volume 127

Guests on Volume 127 • CHRISTOPHER SHANNON on the historian's communal role as story-teller • KEVIN VANHOOZER on the dramatic purposes of doctrine• OLIVER O'DONOVAN on negotiating our way in the created realities • REBECCA DEYOUNG on the forgotten vice of vainglory • THOMAS FORREST KELLY on the invention of Western musical notation• CALVIN STAPERT on the life and work of Joseph Haydn This Volume is also available on CD Click here to download a pdf file with the contents listing and bibliographic information about this Volume. Christopher Shannon “If we truly believe in pluralism . . . then [we] have to let some substantively different stories and different conceptions of the good into the conversation, or [pluralism] is a sham.” — Christopher Shannon, author of The Past as Pilgrimage: Narrative, Tradition, and the Renewal of Catholic History (Christendom Press, 2014) Historian Christopher Shannon discusses how American academic historical writing presents a grand narrative of progr