Petersen / null Divinings: Religion at Harvard

From its Origins in New England Ecclesiastical History to the 175th Anniversary of The Harvard Divinity School, 1636–1992
2. revidierte Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-647-55056-5
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
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E-Book, Englisch, 1414 Seiten

Harvard has often been referred to as “godless Harvard.” This is far from the truth. Fact is that Harvard is and always has been concerned about religion. This volume addresses the reasons for this. The story of religion at Harvard in many ways is the story of religion in the United States. This edition will clarify this relationship. Furthermore, the question of religion is central not only to the religious history of Harvard but to its very corporate structure and institutional evolution. The volume is divided into three parts and deals withthe Formation of Harvard College in 1636 and Evolution of a Republic of Letters in Cambridge (“First Light”, Chapters 1–5); Religion in the University, the Foundations of a Learned Ministry and the Development of the Divinity School (The “Augustan Age”, Chapters 6–9); and the Contours of Religion and Commitment in an Age of Upheaval and Globalization (“Calm Rising Through Change and Through Storm”, Chapters 10–12).The story of the central role played by religion in the development of Harvard is a neglected factor in Harvard’s history only touched upon in a most cursory fashion by previous publications. For the first time George H. Williamstells that story as embedded in American culture and subject to intense and continuing academic study throughout the history of the University to this day.Replete with extensive footnotes, this edition will be a treasure to future historians, persons interested in religious history and in the development of theology, at first clearly Reformed and Protestant, later ecumenical and interfaith.

Autoren/Hrsg.

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Petersen, Rodney L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;9783647550565_Petersen_First Light_Aufl.2_ebook;1
1.1;Cover;1
1.2;Title Page;4
1.3;Copyright;5
1.4;Table of Contents;6
1.5;Preface;10
1.6;Acknowledgements;12
1.7;Abbreviations and Notations;14
1.8;Introduction to Volume 1;16
1.9;Pictures and Illustrations;21
1.10;Body;30
1.11;Chapter 1;30
1.11.1;The Covenantal and Eschatological Context of Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century Religio et Veritas;30
1.11.1.1;1.1 The College among the Colonies;35
1.11.1.2;1.2 A High Calvinist Doctrine of Predestination to Salvation (Soteriology) Shapes the Contours of the College: Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy, 1636–1638;73
1.11.1.3;1.3. The Presidency of Henry Dunster, 1640–1647;96
1.12;Chapter 2;112
1.12.1;Harvard Before its Governance by Two Boards, The Overseers and The Corporation, 1650;112
1.12.1.1;2.1 College in Covenant Amidst Diverse Town and Church Covenants;114
1.13;Chapter 3;168
1.13.1;The President and Fellows of Harvard College, the Oldest Corporation in America, 1650;168
1.13.1.1;3.1 Harvard College in Covenant: The Massachusetts Body Politic, Ecclesiastical, and Academic in the Translatio Studii;168
1.13.1.2;3.2 The Harvard Corporation Amidst Diverse Town and Church Covenants, 1650;181
1.13.1.3;3.3 The Organic College with an International Reformed Vision of Education and Christian Mission: Recollection of the Theologian-Pedagogue Comenius (Komensky);213
1.14;Chapter 4;220
1.14.1;Harvard College from 1650 to the Founding of Yale in 1701;220
1.14.1.1;4.1 Transition in the Harvard Presidency in Relation to the Overseers and the Corporation;220
1.14.1.2;4.2 The Corporation and Other Corporate and Organic Metaphors for the College;297
1.14.1.3;4.3 Survival of an Academic Twelve at Yale, 1701 ;310
1.15;Chapter 5;314
1.15.1;Harvard in the Eighteenth Century, 1701–1780;314
1.15.1.1;5.1 The Presidential Successors of Increase Mather: Samuel Willard, 1701-1707 and John Leverett, 1701–1724;315
1.15.1.2;5.2 The Hollis Professorships and the Civil Oath, 1721–1728;321
1.15.1.3;5.3 The Conversion of Rabbi Judah Monis (1722);324
1.15.1.4;5.4 Harvard Recoils from the Great Awakening while Jonathan Edwards Repristinates the Puritan Experience and Validates it in Terms of John Locke and the Enlightenment;328
1.15.1.5;5.5 Anglican Pressure in New Haven and in Cambridge: Diffidence about the Holden Chapel, 1744;334
1.15.1.6;5.6 The Dudleian Lectureships, 1751, and Further Developments of Anglicanism in Puritan New England;337
1.15.1.7;5.7 Samuel Langdon, Thirteenth Harvard President, 1774–1780, Amidst Theological and Constitutional Anxieties, One of Only Three Presidents Required to Resign;343
1.15.1.8;5.8 The Harvard Charter of 1650 Becomes Constitutional (1780): Changes in Congregational Polity (One University in the State, One Parish Church in the Town);349
1.16;Index of Biblical Quotations;360
1.17;Index of Subjects;363
1.18;Index of Names ;375
1.19;Back Cover;381
2.1;Cover;382
2.2;Title Page;385
2.3;Copyright;386
2.4;Table of Contents;387
2.5;Body;423
2.6;Preface;393
2.7;Acknowledgements;395
2.8;Abbreviations and Notations;397
2.9;Introduction to Volume 2;399
2.10;Pictures and Illustrations;407
2.11;Chapter 6;423
2.11.1;The Gathering of a “Church Within the Walls” and the Founding and Controversial Unfolding of the Divinity School: Harvard Becomes a Private University, 1805–1869;423
2.11.1.1;6.1 The Controversy over the Hollis Professorship of Divinity, 1805; The Founding of the Rival Theological Seminary in Andover (1808);427
2.11.1.2;6.2 The Gathering of a “Church Within the Walls” (1814), the Founding of the Divinity School (1816), and a Second Fission in First Church/Parish, Cambridge (1829);437
2.11.1.3;6.3 The Divinity School Seeks Further Shape, Motivation, and Substance, 1830–1857;472
2.11.1.4;6.4 Divinity and Worship: 1856; the Two New, Non-Residential Professorships the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in Appleton Chapel; The Further Clarification of the Roles of the State, the University, and its Church, 1851– 1866/1881;498
2.11.1.5;6.5 Civil War Divides the Nation, Shaping the College Constitutionally as an Independent University of National Constituency;522
2.12;Chapter 7;545
2.12.1;Philosophy, Divinity, and Religion in the Periods of Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant, 1869–1953;545
2.12.1.1;7.1 Religion at Harvard Under President Charles William Eliot 1869–1909;545
2.12.1.2;7.2 Religion under President A. Lawrence Lowell, 1909–1933;594
2.12.1.3;7.3 Harvard Divinity School and Andover Theological Seminary Merge as The Theological School in Harvard University, 1922–1926, and Forced to Separate;624
2.12.1.4;7.4 The University under President James Bryant Conant, 1933–1953;646
2.13;Chapter 8;703
2.13.1;Precarious Transition and the Renewal of Religion at Harvard, 1941/1948–1959;703
2.13.1.1;8.1 The New Place of Divinity at Harvard Amid the Optimism of “the American Century” Following the Allied Victory in 1945, under President Conant;703
2.13.1.2;8.2 The Pillar Appointments in Religion of President Pusey;770
2.13.1.3;8.3 Controversy and Development in the Era of Buttrick and Horton;807
2.14;Chapter 9;865
2.14.1;The Place of Religion at Harvard Consolidated under Dean Samuel Miller and University Preacher Charles Price in Memorial Church, 1958–1968/1971: The New Theological Scholarship;865
2.14.1.1;9.1 The Deanship of Samuel Miller, 1958-1968;867
2.14.1.2;9.2 The Memorial Church and Phillips Brooks House, 1963–1972 Interesting Times: An Account of the Tenure of the Reverend Charles p. Price as Preacher to the University, 1963–1972 (*Material contributed by Charles p. Price);905
2.14.1.3;9.3 Developments in Certain Academic Fields;914
2.15;Index of Biblical Quotations;1025
2.16;Index of Subjects;1027
2.17;Index of Names ;1040
2.18;Back Cover;1047
3.1;Cover;1048
3.2;Title Page;1051
3.3;Copyright;1052
3.4;Table of Contents;1053
3.5;Body;1091
3.6;Preface;1057
3.7;Acknowledgements;1059
3.8;Abbreviations and Notations;1061
3.9;Introduction to Volume 3;1063
3.10;Pictures and Illustrations;1070
3.11;Chapter 10;1091
3.11.1;Religion in the University in the Closing Phase of the Presidency of Nathan Pusey and the Advent of President Derek Bok, 1971–1991, Dean of its Law School during the Harvard Upheaval (1969);1091
3.11.1.1;10.1 The Deanship of Krister Stendahl, 1968–1979, to the End of the Presidency of Nathan Pusey (1955–1971);1091
3.11.1.2;10.2 The Majority of Harvard Students and Some of the Faculty and Staff Variously Resist the War in Vietnam (1965–1970);1102
3.11.1.3;10.3 Biblical Research at Harvard (1953–1992): the Ancient Middle East at Harvard, and Christian Origins at Harvard: Development in Certain Academic Fields of Religious Scholarship (iii) (* Material contributed by Mark Kiley);1143
3.11.1.4; 10.4 The Divinity School Implements Several of the Reforms and Celebrates the Founding of The Boston Theological Institute (BTI) under Dean Stendahl, Phase II (1970–1979);1169
3.11.1.5;10.5 The Discipline of the History of Religion under Wilfred Cantwell Smith and John Carman: Development in Certain Academic Fields (iv);1184
3.11.1.6;10.6 Some Vital Statistics at the Close of Stendahl’s Tenure at Harvard (1954–1981);1193
3.11.1.7;10.7 Transition at HDS under Acting Deans George MacRae and John Carman (1985–1986);1197
3.12;Chapter 11;1203
3.12.1;Religion at Harvard under the Presidency of Derek Bok (1971–1992), and the First Year under Neil Rudenstine, (1991–2001), Including the 175th Anniversary of the School in 1992 and Selected Religious Themes that Reach Back into Earlier Administrations;1203
3.12.1.1;11.1 Peter J. Gomes, Pilgrims, and Memorial Church (* Material contributed by Rodney L. Petersen);1206
3.12.1.2;11.2 The Deanship of George Erik Rupp, 1979–1985;1241
3.13;Chapter 12;1269
3.13.1;Living into Distinctive Religious Perspectives: The Women’s Movement, Black Religious Consciousness and The Catholicity of Harvard Square;1269
3.13.1.1;12.1 Women and Blacks Find Their Places at Harvard, 1954–1992;1270
3.13.1.2;12.2 Distinctive Religious Perspectives/Retrospectives;1332
3.13.1.3;12.3 General Account of Religion at Harvard from the Onset of the Deanship of Ronald Thiemann (1986–1998) and the Celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Divinity School Under Him During the First Year of President Neil Rudenstine, 1991–2001;1396
3.14;Index of Biblical Quotations;1403
3.15;Index of Subjects;1405
3.16;Index of Names ;1412
3.17;Back Cover;1421

Über Autor(innen)

Petersen, Rodney L.
Rodney L. Petersen, PhD, is Executive Director of the Boston Theological Institute.