Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America

by Elizabeth A. Clark

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243196
• ISBN13: 9780812243192
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"