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Clark, Elizabeth A.

Founding the Fathers

Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America

Series:Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

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Publication Date:
April 2011
Copyright year:
2011
ISBN
978-0-8122-0432-2
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Frontmatter

Pages i-viii

Contents

Pages ix-x

Introduction: Higher Education and Religion in Nineteenth-Century United States

Pages 1-18

Part I. The Setting: Contextualizing the Study of Early Christianity in America

Chapter 1. The Institutions and the Professors

Pages 21-54

Chapter 2. Infrastructure: Teaching, Textbooks, Primary Sources, and Libraries

Pages 55-94

Part II. History and Historiography

Chapter 3 Defending the Faith: European Theories and American Professors

Pages 97-137

Chapter 4. History and Church History

Pages 138-167

Chapter 5 Development and Decline: Challenges to Historiographical Categories

Pages 168-202

Part III. Topics of Early Christian History in Nineteenth-Century Analysis

Chapter 6. Polity and Practice

Pages 205-237

Chapter 7. Roman Catholicism

Pages 238-270

Chapter 8. Asceticism, Marriage, Women, and the Family

Pages 271-313

Chapter 9. The Uses of Augustine

Pages 314-346

Appendix: Student Notetakers

Pages 347-350

Abbreviations and Archival Sources

Pages 351-354

Notes

Pages 355-498

Bibliography

Pages 499-540

Index

Pages 541-558

Acknowledgments

Pages 559-561

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