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almafu_9958352310702883
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1 online resource (576 pages) :
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illustrations.
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Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812204322
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Divinations
Inhalt:
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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: Higher Education and Religion in Nineteenth-Century United States --
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Chapter 1. The Institutions and the Professors --
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Chapter 2. Infrastructure: Teaching, Textbooks, Primary Sources, and Libraries --
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Chapter 3 Defending the Faith: European Theories and American Professors --
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Chapter 4. History and Church History --
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Chapter 5 Development and Decline: Challenges to Historiographical Categories --
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Chapter 6. Polity and Practice --
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Chapter 7. Roman Catholicism --
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Chapter 8. Asceticism, Marriage, Women, and the Family --
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Chapter 9. The Uses of Augustine --
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Appendix: Student Notetakers --
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Abbreviations and Archival Sources --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.9783/9780812204322
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204322
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204322
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