Elizabeth A Clark

Founding the Fathers

Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

"Founding the Fathers" explores the development of early Christian history and theology as a discipline in four nineteenth-century Protestant seminaries in the United States. Archival sources reveal how professors adjusted German scholarship to fit Americans' evangelical assumptions and to make the Catholic past more palatable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9780812243192
• ISBN-10: 0812243196
• Artikelnr.: 33148786

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth A. Clark (1938-2021) was John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Duke University. She is the author of numerous books, including Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity and History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Higher Education and Religion in Nineteenth-Century United
States
PART I. THE SETTING: CONTEXTUALIZING THE STUDY OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN
AMERICA
1. The Institutions and the Professors
2. Infrastructure: Teaching, Textbooks, Primary Sources, and Libraries
PART II. HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
3. Defending the Faith: European Theories and American Professors
4. History and Church History
5. Development and Decline: Challenges to Historiographical Categories
PART III. TOPICS OF EARLY CHRISTIAN HISTORY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ANALYSIS
6. Polity and Practice
7. Roman Catholicism
8. Asceticism, Marriage, Women, and the Family
9. The Uses of Augustine
Conclusion
Appendix: Student Notetakers
List of Abbreviations and Archival Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments