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Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth A. Clark (1938-2021) was John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Duke University. She is the author of numerous books, including Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity and History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn. Klappentext "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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Higher Education and Religion in Nineteenth-Century United States PART I. THE SETTING: CONTEXTUALIZING THE STUDY OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA 1. The Institutions and the Professors 2. Infrastructure: Teaching, Textbooks, Primary Sources, and Libraries PART II. HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY 3. Defending the Faith: European Theories and American Professors 4. History and Church History 5. Development and Decline: Challenges to Historiographical Categories PART III. TOPICS OF EARLY CHRISTIAN HISTORY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ANALYSIS 6. Polity and Practice 7. Roman Catholicism 8. Asceticism, Marriage, Women, and the Family 9. The Uses of Augustine Conclusion Appendix: Student Notetakers List of Abbreviations and Archival Sources Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
