Charles Hodge, guardian of American orthodoxy /Paul C. Gutjahr.
Description
Pt. I. 1730-1810 : the Hodges of Philadelphia -- Andrew Hodge, family patriarch -- Presbyterian heritage -- Hodge's parents -- Pt. II. 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?" -- Pt. III. 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 -- Pt. IV. 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 -- Pt. V. 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" -- Pt. VI. 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 -- Pt. VII. 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 -- Pt. VIII. 1870s : systematic theologian and scientist -- The Systematic theology -- "The apex of my life" -- Science and Darwinism -- "O death, where is thy sting?" -- Hodge's legacy.
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