Research Catalog

Title

Piety and profession : American Protestant theological education, 1870-1970 / Glenn T. Miller.

Author

Miller, Glenn T., 1942-

Publication

Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2007.

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Details

Description

xxiv, 821 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

From the urbanization of the Gilded Age to the upheavals of the Haight-Ashbury era, this encyclopedic work by Glenn Miller takes readers on a sweeping journey through the landscape of American theological education, highlighting such landmarks as Princeton, Andover, and Chicago, and such fault lines as denominationalism, science, and dispensationalism. --from publisher description.

Subject

• Geschichte 1870-1970
• 1800-1999
• Geschichte 1870-1970
• Theology > Study and teaching > History > United States > 19th century
• Theology > Study and teaching > History > United States > 20th century
• Protestant theological seminaries > United States > History > 19th century
• Protestant theological seminaries > United States > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 779-807) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A new understanding forms. The compleat seminary ; Seminaries face a reordered world ; The birth of the classical disciplines ; Spiritual crisis and the new science ; The new biblical studies : round one ; The changing world of schools : a new ecology ; The case of Andover Theological Seminary ; The impact of the social awakening ; Before fundamentalism : the educational dynamics of dispensationalism ; Training women for mission ; Doing it right : the early years of the University of Chicago Divinity School ; Methodism and the university ; The presidency -- Embodying the dream. An appraisal at the end of the era of crusades ; The progressive movement at its height : what Kelly found ; African American theological education : from Emancipation to the Depression ; Troubled decade, troubled churches ; The denominations impacted, 1917-1930 ; Reform in many places : the beginning of AATS ; Brown-May ; Seminaries and the second righteous empire ; A reborn theological discussion ; The rural church ; Religious education ; Field education and clinical training -- Questions in the midst of triumph. American conservative Protestantism recovers ; The Second World War, ideological struggle, and the advance of theological education ; Mr. Niebuhr speaks : seminaries advance ; Transformation : the birth of religion departments ; The sixties : the dawn of a new age ; Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780802829467 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0802829465 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006039451

OCLC

• 76901832
• SCSB-11874112

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library