“... some critics of CT have been incorrect to claim that Christians may never use any ideas that come from outside Scripture”

Aniol has no footnotes in his article. I have no idea if he actually knows what he’s talking about from reading the primary literature, or if the article is a microwaved reheat of some Founders articles.

What Tyler says, and I might also add that it seems that Aniol is of the opinion that CT is pretty much warmed over Marxist/Hegelian dialectic. There’s an interesting controversy here—I’ve got a couple of history books by James Harvey Robinson, who took the study of history from the study of great men to view things of the population as a whole, borrowing a little bit from the Marxist approach to history, but retaining the notion that classes were not inherently in conflict.

We might state that a big part of the controversy over the study of history would amount to a dispute over whether a large driver is the disputes between social classes, and to what extent the previous disputes silently influence those of today. My best guess is that both sides probably overstate their case a bit.