James H. Moorhead
Autor de Princeton Seminary in American Religion and Culture
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James H. Moorhead is Mary McIntosh Bridge Professor of American Church History at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is author of American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869 and senior editor of the Journal of Presbyterian History.
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At the 1812 inauguration of Archibald Alexander as Princeton Seminary's first professor, the Reverend Philip Milledoler insisted, "We want a learned ministry. Whatever mischief has been done to the world by philosophy so called, we are persuaded that true learning has never injured the church and never will …. It has been said that ignorance is the mother of devotion; that aphorism we utterly and indignantly reject."
Instead, Moorhead places the history of the seminary within the larger milieu of American religion, culture, and society.
Moorhead's agility in explaining abstract and sometimes arcane theological ideas, such as the intricacies of federal theology or Horace Bushnell's view of language, makes this book a great introduction to the history of American Protestant theology (comparable to Brooks Holifield's Theology in America).
Presbyterians, like other Reformed Christians, often speak of Christ transforming culture. Christians would do well to pay careful attention to the ways that culture returns the favor.… (más)