The soul of the American university : from protestant establishment to established nonbelief / George M. Marsden.

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Main Author: Marsden, George M., 1939-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Table of Contents:
  • God and Buckley at Yale (1951)
  • Henry Sloane Coffin's Yale (1897)
  • A "Christian college"? The Yale of Noah Porter and William Graham Sumner (1879-1881)
  • The burden of Christendom: seventeenth-century Harvard
  • The new queen of the sciences and the new Republic
  • Two kinds of sectarianism
  • A righteous consensus, Whig style
  • American practicality and Germanic ideals: two visions for reform
  • The Christian legacy in the epoch of science
  • Positive Christianity versus Positivism at Noah Porter's Yale
  • California: revolution without much ideology
  • Methodological secularization and its Christian rationale at Hopkins
  • Liberal Protestantism at Michigan: New England intentions with Jeffersonian results
  • Harvard and the religion of humanity
  • Holding the line at Princeton
  • Making the world safe from the traditionalist establishment
  • The low-church idea of a university
  • The trouble with the old-time religion
  • The elusive ideal of academic freedom
  • The Fundamentalist menace
  • The obstacles to a Christian presence
  • Outsiders
  • Searching for a soul
  • A church with the soul of a nation
  • Liberal Protestantism without Protestantism.