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1 online resource (xxiii, 477 pages) : illustrations, portrait |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-465) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hodge, Charles, 1797-1878.
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| SUBJECT |
Hodge, Charles, 1797-1878 fast |
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199838233 |
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0199838232 |
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9780199894703 |
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0199894701 |
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