Piety and Profession: American Protestant Theological Education, 1870-1970

by Glenn Miller

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802829467
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	06/11/2007
Pages:	845
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Glenn T. Miller is academic dean of Bangor TheologicalSeminary, Bangor, Maine. His other books include TheModern Church and Piety and Learning: A History ofAntebellum Theological Education in America."

Table of Contents

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xx
Introduction     xxi
A New Understanding Forms
The Compleat Seminary     3
Seminaries Face a Reordered World     25
The Birth of the Classical Disciplines     43
Spiritual Crisis and the New Science     63
The New Biblical Studies: Round One     88
The Changing World of Schools: A New Ecology     113
The Case of Andover Theological Seminary     134
The Impact of the Social Awakening     154
Before Fundamentalism: The Educational Dynamics of Dispensationalism     179
Training Women for Mission     201
Doing It Right: The Early Years of the University of Chicago Divinity School     224
Methodism and the University     246
The Presidency     271
Embodying the Dream
An Appraisal at the End of the Era of Crusades     295
The Progressive Movement at Its Height: What Kelly Found     314
African American Theological Education: From Emancipation to the Depression     340
Troubled Decade, Troubled Churches     381
The Denominations Impacted, 1917-1930     404
Reform in Many Places: The Beginning of AATS     451
Brown-May     470
Seminaries and the Second Righteous Empire     490
A Reborn Theological Discussion     517
The Rural Church     538
Religious Education     559
Field Education and Clinical Training     591
Questions in the Midst of Triumph
American Conservative Protestantism Recovers     619
The Second World War, Ideological Struggle, and the Advance of Theological Education     648
Mr. Niebuhr Speaks: Seminaries Advance     669
Transformation: The Birth of Religion Departments     706
The Sixties: The Dawn of a New Age     726
Conclusion     766
Bibliography     779
Index     808

Editorial Reviews

In Trust
"A monumental achievement in both quantity and quality, Miller's work is more than an institutional history of American seminaries - it is a history of American Protestantism told through the story of the institutions that train Protestant clergy."

E. Brooks Holifield
— Emory University
"Glenn Miller has written a comprehensive account of Protestant seminary education, but he has also produced a significant and penetrating interpretation of Protestantism in American culture. Vast in scope, the book links ministerial training to a social and cultural context that can encompass lucid accounts of how railroads shaped the schools, consumption patterns affected their governance, capitalists financed innovation within them, theological conflict divided them, and science shook them. The cast of characters is immense, from learned theologians and shrewd administrators to activist women and determined African American clergy. By telling the story with such awareness of its larger setting, Miller allows us to see American Protestantism in a new and fresh way."

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