{"product_id":"founding-the-fathers-early-church-history-and-protestant-professors-in-nineteenth-century-america-hardback-9780812243192","title":"Founding the Fathers; Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardback) 9780812243192","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFounding the Fathers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEarly Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElizabeth A. Clark (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812243192\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 May 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e576 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is a genuinely pioneering work from one of the most engaged historians of early Christianity. Elizabeth A. Clark's lucid exposition reveals a mastery of scholarship on German, British, and American educational curricula and intellectual life.\" (Mark Vessey, University of British Columbia) \"\u003ci\u003eFounding the Fathers\u003c\/i\u003e is sweeping in its view of the history of American higher education, its comprehensive sense of the study of religion, and its firm grasp of the transnational scope of nineteenth-century theological learning. An original and substantial contribution to both American intellectual history and the history of early Christian studies.\" (Leigh Eric Schmidt, Harvard University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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 nineteenth century. These four Protestant institutions, founded to train clergy, later became the cradles for the nonsectarian study of religion at secular colleges and universities. Clark, one of the world's most eminent scholars of early Christianity, explores this development in \u003ci\u003eFounding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e Based on voluminous archival materials, the book charts how American theologians traveled to Europe to study in Germany and confronted intellectual currents that were invigorating but potentially threatening to their faith. The Union and Yale professors in particular struggled to tame German biblical and philosophical criticism to fit American evangelical convictions. German models that encouraged a positive view of early and medieval Christianity collided with Protestant assumptions that the church had declined grievously between the Apostolic and Reformation eras. Trying to reconcile these views, the Americans came to offer some counterbalance to traditional Protestant hostility both to contemporary Roman Catholicism and to those historical periods that had been perceived as Catholic, especially the patristic era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Higher Education and Religion in Nineteenth-Century United States\u003cbr\u003e PART I. THE SETTING: CONTEXTUALIZING THE STUDY OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Institutions and the Professors\u003cbr\u003e 2. Infrastructure: Teaching, Textbooks, Primary Sources, and Libraries\u003cbr\u003e PART II. HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY\u003cbr\u003e 3. Defending the Faith: European Theories and American Professors\u003cbr\u003e 4. History and Church History\u003cbr\u003e 5. Development and Decline: Challenges to Historiographical Categories\u003cbr\u003e PART III. TOPICS OF EARLY CHRISTIAN HISTORY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ANALYSIS\u003cbr\u003e 6. Polity and Practice\u003cbr\u003e 7. Roman Catholicism\u003cbr\u003e 8. Asceticism, Marriage, Women, and the Family\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Uses of Augustine\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Student Notetakers\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations and Archival Sources\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555710988568,"sku":"9780812243192","price":59.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/founding-the-fathers-early-church-history-and-protestant-professors-in-nineteenth-century-america-hardback-9780812243192","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}