Piety and profession
Subtitle: American Protestant theological education, 1870-1970
By: Glenn T. Miller.
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 821
ISBN-13: 9780802829467
Subjects: Theology -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Theology -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Protestant theological seminaries -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Protestant theological seminaries -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A new understanding forms; title: The compleat seminary; title: Seminaries face a reordered world; title: The birth of the classical disciplines; title: Spiritual crisis and the new science; title: The new biblical studies : round one; title: The changing world of schools : a new ecology; title: The case of Andover Theological Seminary; title: The impact of the social awakening; title: Before fundamentalism : the educational dynamics of dispensationalism; title: Training women for mission; title: Doing it right : the early years of the University of Chicago Divinity School; title: Methodism and the university; title: The presidency; title: Embodying the dream; title: An appraisal at the end of the era of crusades; title: The progressive movement at its height : what Kelly found; title: African American theological education : from emancipation to the depression; title: Troubled decade, troubled churches; title: The denominations impacted, 1917-1930; title: Reform in many places : the beginning of AATS; title: Brown-May; title: Seminaries and the second righteous empire; title: A reborn theological discussion; title: The rural church; title: Religious education; title: Field education and clinical training; title: Questions in the midst of triumph; title: American conservative Protestantism recovers; title: The second world war, ideological struggle, and the advance of theological education; title: Mr. Niebuhr speaks : seminaries advance; title: Transformation : the birth of religion departments; title: The sixties : the dawn of a new age.