Language, Religion, Knowledge
Subtitle: Past and Present
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780268033576
Subjects: Higher & further education; Education / Teaching; History: American; USA; Higher; History; Parochial; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Language and languages; Religion; Study and teaching (Higher); United States; Universities and colleges
Description: Contents

Introduction; 
Part One: Historical Studies; 
Chapter 1. Language, Knowledge, and Religion in Nineteenth-century America: The Curious Case of Andrews Norton; 
Chapter 2. Charles Hodge in the Intellectual Weather of the Nineteenth Century; 
Chapter 3. Secularization and Sacralization: Some Religious Origins of the Secular Humanities Curriculum, 1850-1900; 
Chapter 4. The "German Model" and the Graduate School: The University of Michigan and the Origin Myth of the American University (written with Paul Bernard); 
Chapter 5. The Forgotten History of the Research Ideal; 
Part Two: Contemporary Interventions; 
Chapter 6. Catholicism and Modern Scholarship: A Historical Sketch; 
Chapter 7. The Evangelical Intellectual Revival; 
Chapter 8. The Catholic University in Modern Academe: Challenge and Dilemma; 
Chapter 9. Catholic Intellectual Traditions and Contemporary Scholarship