Synopses & Reviews
< p=""> From the urbanization of the Gilded Age to the upheavals of the Haight-Ashbury era, this encyclopedic work by Glenn Miller takes readers on a sweeping journey through the landscape of American theological education, highlighting such landmarks as Princeton, Andover, and Chicago, and such fault lines as denominationalism, science, and dispensationalism.<> < p=""> The first such exhaustive treatment of this time period in religious education, < em=""> Piety and Profession< m=""> is a valuable tool for unearthing the key trends from the Civil War well into the twentieth century. All those involved in theological education will be well served by this study of how the changing world changed educational patterns.<>
Synopsis
From the urbanization of the Gilded Age to the upheavals of the Haight-Ashbury era, this encyclopedic work by Glenn Miller takes readers on a sweeping journey through the landscape of American theological education, highlighting such landmarks as Princeton, Andover, and Chicago, and such fault lines as denominationalism, science, and dispensationalism. The first such exhaustive treatment of this time period in religious education, Piety and Profession is a valuable tool for unearthing the key trends from the Civil War well into the twentieth century. All those involved in theological education will be well served by this study of how the changing world changed educational patterns.
Table of Contents
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 ; Conclusion.