04170nam 2200733 a 450 991078857970332120220124180126.01-283-89632-X0-8122-0432-810.9783/9780812204322(CKB)3240000000064688(OCoLC)794700594(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641600(SSID)ssj0000606370(PQKBManifestationID)11406090(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606370(PQKBWorkID)10582280(PQKB)10467454(MdBmJHUP)muse8270(DE-B1597)449343(OCoLC)979748410(DE-B1597)9780812204322(Au-PeEL)EBL3441765(CaPaEBR)ebr10641600(CaONFJC)MIL420882(MiAaPQ)EBC3441765(PPN)201937972(EXLCZ)99324000000006468820101222d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFounding the Fathers[electronic resource] early church history and Protestant professors in nineteenth-century America /Elizabeth A. Clark1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20111 online resource (572 p.)Divinations : rereading late ancient religionBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4319-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-540) and index.pt. I. The setting : contextualizing the study of early Christianity in America -- pt. II. History and historiography -- pt. III. Topics of early Christian history in nineteenth-century analysis.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 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 Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America.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.Divinations.TheologyStudy and teachingUnited StatesHistory19th centuryFathers of the churchStudy and teachingUnited StatesHistory19th centuryProtestant theological seminariesUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAmerican History.American Studies.Religion.Religious Studies.TheologyStudy and teachingHistoryFathers of the churchStudy and teachingHistoryProtestant theological seminariesHistory230.071/173Clark Elizabeth A(Elizabeth Ann),1938-2021.1467605MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788579703321Founding the Fathers3678330UNINA