Piety and profession: American Protestant theological education, 1870 - 1970
Introduction -- 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...
| Résumé: | Introduction -- 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 |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 779-807) and index |
| ISBN: | 0802829465 |