02620oam 22004454a 450 991048558220332120240327201121.0(CKB)5590000000501168(OCoLC)1256254216(MdBmJHUP)muse99047(EXLCZ)99559000000050116820210209d2021 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAugustus Hopkins Strong and the Struggle to Reconcile Christian Theology with Modern ThoughtJohn AloisiRochester, NY, USA :University of Rochester Press,2021.©2021.1 online resource1-64825-022-X Includes bibliographical references and index."Augustus Hopkins Strong was the president of Rochester Theological Seminary for 40 years (1872-1912). Although Strong regarded himself as a theological conservative, he oversaw the transition from orthodoxy to a much more modern view of theology at Rochester. Over the course of his academic career, Strong's theology evolved as he sought to facilitate an ideological rapprochement between Christian orthodoxy and modern thought. This book traces the evolution of Strong's theology, particularly its movement in the direction of philosophical idealism and arguably pantheism. This book argues that Strong's theological journey and embrace of ethical monism was his attempt to bring together theological conservatives and modernists while trying to resolve tensions within his own thinking. In the end, Strong was unable to persuade modernists to embrace ethical monism or to convince conservatives that ethical monism was a legitimate theological option. Strong's attempt at a theological synthesis failed due largely to the contradictions which ethical monism produced within both Christian theology and philosophical monism. But Strong's journey had a significant impact on the direction of Rochester Theological Seminary"--Provided by publisher.MonismTheologyPhilosophy and religionBaptistsDoctrinesHistoryMonism.Theology.Philosophy and religion.BaptistsDoctrinesHistory.230/.6092Aloisi John1024112MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910485582203321Augustus Hopkins Strong and the Struggle to Reconcile Christian Theology with Modern Thought2433700UNINA