Charles Hodge : The Pride of Princeton /
Hoffecker, W. Andrew, 1941-
Charles Hodge : The Pride of Princeton / W. Andrew Hoffecker. - 460 pages ; 23 cm. - American Reformed biographies . - American Reformed biographies. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-446) and index.
New side confessionalist -- Early religious experience -- From Philadelphia to the College of New Jersey -- Following the plan -- Fledgling ministry -- Expanding vistas -- Fledgling professor -- Separation from family -- Maintaining family connections -- Student, conversationalist, cultural and ecclesiastical observer -- Berlin : the reigning center of nineteenth-century German culture -- A new model in theological education -- Assessing the sojourn in Europe -- Newfound confidence -- A prodigious journalistic venture -- Old school-New school rivalry -- Old school nurture vs. New school revivalism -- Abolitionism vs. gradual elimination of slavery -- Schism of 1837 -- Revisionist historian -- To publish or not to publish -- Changes -- An evangelical theology -- Christian education -- Relations with Roman Catholicism -- Internecine controversy : Mercesburg -- Old school north vs. Old school south -- Subscription to the Westminster Confession of Faith -- Anglicanism's Oxford movement -- German and American Transcendentalism -- Revisting an old friend -- A nation and church divided and reunited -- Reformed among evangelicals -- Science under scrutiny -- Fifty years and counting.
"Charles Hodge (1797-1878) is regarded by many as the most significant American theologian of the nineteenth century. He drove forward the rapid growth of theological education and contributed to Presbyterianism's wide-ranging influence in public life. His advocacy of a Reformed orthodoxy combined with evangelical piety attracted a broad following within Old School Presbyterianism that spilled over into American evangelicalism as a whole. Hodge helped to define a distinctive ministerial model£the pastor-scholar and his fingerprints can be seen all over the Reformed Christian scene of today" -- Publisher description.
9780875526584 (pbk.) 0875526586 (pbk.)
Hodge, Charles, 1797-1878.
Princeton Theological Seminary--Faculty--Biography.
Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States--Biography.
Theologians--United States--Biography.
Biographies.
BX9225.H6 / H64 2011
285.092 / H6986
Charles Hodge : The Pride of Princeton / W. Andrew Hoffecker. - 460 pages ; 23 cm. - American Reformed biographies . - American Reformed biographies. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-446) and index.
New side confessionalist -- Early religious experience -- From Philadelphia to the College of New Jersey -- Following the plan -- Fledgling ministry -- Expanding vistas -- Fledgling professor -- Separation from family -- Maintaining family connections -- Student, conversationalist, cultural and ecclesiastical observer -- Berlin : the reigning center of nineteenth-century German culture -- A new model in theological education -- Assessing the sojourn in Europe -- Newfound confidence -- A prodigious journalistic venture -- Old school-New school rivalry -- Old school nurture vs. New school revivalism -- Abolitionism vs. gradual elimination of slavery -- Schism of 1837 -- Revisionist historian -- To publish or not to publish -- Changes -- An evangelical theology -- Christian education -- Relations with Roman Catholicism -- Internecine controversy : Mercesburg -- Old school north vs. Old school south -- Subscription to the Westminster Confession of Faith -- Anglicanism's Oxford movement -- German and American Transcendentalism -- Revisting an old friend -- A nation and church divided and reunited -- Reformed among evangelicals -- Science under scrutiny -- Fifty years and counting.
"Charles Hodge (1797-1878) is regarded by many as the most significant American theologian of the nineteenth century. He drove forward the rapid growth of theological education and contributed to Presbyterianism's wide-ranging influence in public life. His advocacy of a Reformed orthodoxy combined with evangelical piety attracted a broad following within Old School Presbyterianism that spilled over into American evangelicalism as a whole. Hodge helped to define a distinctive ministerial model£the pastor-scholar and his fingerprints can be seen all over the Reformed Christian scene of today" -- Publisher description.
9780875526584 (pbk.) 0875526586 (pbk.)
Hodge, Charles, 1797-1878.
Princeton Theological Seminary--Faculty--Biography.
Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States--Biography.
Theologians--United States--Biography.
Biographies.
BX9225.H6 / H64 2011
285.092 / H6986