Henry Boynton Smith and Church History in Nineteenth-Century America
Henry Boynton Smith (1815-1877) was one of the few nineteenth-century American scholars committed to disseminating German methods of ecclesiastical historiography to a country known for its anti-historical tendencies. However, modern scholars have generally overlooked his significant contributions i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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Church history
Year: 2016, Volume: 85, Issue: 2, Pages: 302-327 |
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Smith, Henry Boynton 1815-1877
/ Schaff, Philip 1819-1893
/ USA
/ Church history studies
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAA Church history KBQ North America TJ Modern history |
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| Summary: | Henry Boynton Smith (1815-1877) was one of the few nineteenth-century American scholars committed to disseminating German methods of ecclesiastical historiography to a country known for its anti-historical tendencies. However, modern scholars have generally overlooked his significant contributions in this area. Hence exploring his scholarly reception and specifically his History of the Church of Christ, in Chronological Tables will fill a niche in the historiography of church history.Philip Schaff (1819-1893), the renowned church historian and founder of the American Society of Church History, was one of the few contemporaries of Smith who understood that Smith's scholarship was on a par with that being produced in Germany. Schaff specifically praised Smith's chronological tables—evidence of Smith's German education among some of the best German historians of the period, including Leopold von Ranke and August Neander. This essay reviews Smith's History of the Church of Christ, in Chronological Tables in the context of the newly emerging scientific history and describes his contribution to nineteenth-century American scholarship. Smith is worthy of attention for establishing a central position for the history of doctrine and for promoting the field of church history and the use of chronological tables in nineteenth-century America. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-2613 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0009640716000019 |