Fathers Refounded - Protestant Liberalism, Roman Catholic Modernism, Teaching of Ancient

Elizabeth A. Clark is the John Carlisle Kilgo Professor Emerita of Religion at Duke University. She is author of History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn, Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity, and The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian Debate. Her Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Elizabeth A. Clark

Summary

In The Fathers Refounded, Elizabeth A. Clark examines the lives and scholarship of professors Arthur Cushman McGiffert, George LaPiana, and Shirley Jackson Case, who modernized the academic study of Christianity in the early twentieth century.

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• Authors: Elizabeth A Clark, Elizabeth A. Clark
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780812250718
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5071-8
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion; Divinations: Rereading Late An; Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion; Divinations: Rereading Late An
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works