Research Catalog

Title

The revolutionary college : American Presbyterian higher education, 1707-1837 / Howard Miller.

Author

Miller, Howard, 1941-

Publication

New York : New York University Press, 1976.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 381 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

New York University series in education and socialization in American history

Uniform Title

New York University series in education and socialization in American history.

Subject

• Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. > Education
• Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A
• Presbyterian Church in the USA
• Presbyterian Church in the USA
• Education
• Hochschulbildung
• Presbyterianisme
• Hoger onderwijs
• Hochschulbildung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Reformation 1707-1775 : The Presbyterian church as a social union : "That true Christian communion"; Prelude to conflict: the subscription controversy ; An army with banners ; The nature of authority ; Majority and minority ; Reunion -- The Presbyterian minister as social leader : At ease in Zion ; Success and the greater good ; Visible and invisible saints -- An expansive vision : The Protestant commonwealth as community ; The social function of higher education ; The colonial debate over sectarian education ; Colonial finances -- Colonial education patterns : Redefining virtue ; The colonial curriculum ; Education and freedom of inquiry ; Education for a deferential society -- Revolution: 1775-1795 : The republic as community : The easy travail of Zion ; Transformed Americans ; "The morning of the world" ; The American as republican ; The republican as Christian ; "No man liveth to himself" -- Republican tensions : Institutions and the revolution ; Education and social conflict: the Pennsylvania revolution ; Education and social conflict: the Virginia revolution ; Homogeneity, social conflict, and education ; The financing and control of republican institutions -- Republican educational patterns : The plan road of common sense ; Instruments of republican regeneration ; The science of discipline ; Extending the limits of education -- Retrogression: 1795-1820 : The denomination as community : "Watchman, what of the night?" ; The "natural and salutary collisions of parties" ; The republican as visible Christian ; From republic to denomination -- The denominational college : The triumph of denominationalism ; Professionalization and denominationalism ; Denominational finances -- The great retrogression : The science of discipline abandoned ; Certificates and fences ; The attack on "unrestrained philosophy" ; The triumph of the classics ; Stagnation and decline -- : Toward 1837.

ISBN

• 0814754074
• 9780814754078

LCCN

75027053

OCLC

• ocm02371709
• 2371709
• SCSB-110508

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library