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Charles Hodge : guardian of American orthodoxy /

Charles Hodge (1797-1878) was one of 19th-century America's leading theologians, owing in part to a lengthy teaching career, voluminous writings, and a faculty post at one of the nation's most influential schools, Princeton Theological Seminary.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gutjahr, Paul C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Hodge, Charles, > 1797-1878.
Hodge, Charles, > 1797-1878
Theologians > United States > Biography.
Théologiens > États-Unis > Biographies.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Religious.
Electronic books.
Biographies
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The Pope of Presbyterianism
  • 1730-1810 : The Hodges of Philadelphia. Andrew Hodge, family patriarch
  • Presbyterian heritage
  • Hodge's parents
  • The 1810s : Student Years. The beginnings of self
  • Prince's Town
  • Witherspoon's common sense
  • Classick learning
  • Enlisting under the banner of King Jesus
  • Happy jaunts and the man of men
  • Give us ministers!
  • Student years at the seminary
  • Where am I to go?
  • The 1820s : Young Professor. The most eligible situation for improvement
  • New England's theological landscape
  • Democratic Christianity
  • The birth of the Biblical Repertory
  • The trip to Europe
  • Halle
  • Berlin and the return home
  • A sense of mission
  • The Repertory reborn
  • The 1830s : Crusader. The imputation controversy
  • Romans
  • Crippled in body, but not in mind
  • Home life
  • The coming storm
  • The slavery question
  • The schism
  • The new school fights back
  • Writing history
  • The 1840s : Professor of Theology. The Way of Life
  • Didactic theology
  • Teaching and preaching
  • The public face of the seminary
  • Moderator of the General Assembly
  • The nonsensical dialect of transcendentalism
  • Roman Catholic baptism
  • The infection of German idealism
  • When the will of the wife is the other way
  • Covered in gloom
  • The 1850s: Inspired Churchman. College trustee
  • Language and feeling
  • The inspiration of Scripture
  • Graces of the spirit
  • The battle against Churchianity
  • Thornwell and thus saith the Lord
  • The Pauline commentaries
  • Politics and conscience
  • The 1860s : Conflicted Unionist. The state of the country and the church
  • Hodge's family at war
  • The unities of mankind
  • The disunities of mankind
  • Reuniting the old and new schools
  • 1870s : Systematic Theologian and Scientist. The Systematic theology
  • The apex of my life
  • Science and Darwinism
  • O death, where is thy sting?
  • Epilogue: Hodge's legacy.