Founding the Fathers : : Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America / / Elizabeth A. Clark.
Through their teaching of early Christian history and theology, Elizabeth A. Clark contends, Princeton Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, Yale Divinity School, and Union Theological Seminary functioned as America's closest equivalents to graduate schools in the humanities during the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Higher Education and Religion in Nineteenth-Century United States
- Part I. The Setting: Contextualizing the Study of Early Christianity in America
- Chapter 1. The Institutions and the Professors
- Chapter 2. Infrastructure: Teaching, Textbooks, Primary Sources, and Libraries
- Part II. History and Historiography
- Chapter 3 Defending the Faith: European Theories and American Professors
- Chapter 4. History and Church History
- Chapter 5 Development and Decline: Challenges to Historiographical Categories
- Part III. Topics of Early Christian History in Nineteenth-Century Analysis
- Chapter 6. Polity and Practice
- Chapter 7. Roman Catholicism
- Chapter 8. Asceticism, Marriage, Women, and the Family
- Chapter 9. The Uses of Augustine
- Appendix: Student Notetakers
- Abbreviations and Archival Sources
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments