Transatlantic Religion

Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46501-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 82, 259 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Brill's Series in Church History

Transatlantic Religion offers a new perspective on nineteenth-century American Christianity that takes into account the century’s major transformations in politics, philosophy, education, and religious doctrine. The book includes previously unexamined material to explain the influences of European ideas on the intellectual diversity and cultural specifics of American Christianity. It gives readers access to a new analytical approach to the transatlantic development of religion in America, one that acknowledges the role of ecumenical and partisan religious journalism, academic-religious mentoring, profound changes in the field of scientific inquiry, and the aims of institution builders.

Contributors are: Annette G. Aubert, Lee C. Barrett, Elizabeth A. Clark, Andrew Z. Hansen, Charlotte Hansen, George Harinck, Paul E. Kerry, Andrew Kloes, David Komline, Hartmut Lehmann, Mark A. Noll, C. Michael Shea, Timothy Verhoeven, Zachary Purvis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Aubert, Annette G.

Purvis, Zachary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Annette G. Aubert and Zachary Purvis

part 1: Education and the Establishment of New Networks

1 A Republic of Letters for the Kingdom of God

Protestant Religious Journalism, 1795–1810

Andrew Kloes

2 “While We Are Making Ships, They Are Manufacturing Theories”

Americans and German Theology before ca. 1840

Andrew Z. Hansen

3 George Bancroft’s Encounter with Eichhorn’s Biblical Criticism and the University of Göttingen

Paul E. Kerry

4 Transatlantic Mentoring

Philip Schaff and Arthur Cushman McGiffert

Elizabeth A. Clark

5 “I Have the Quiet Prayer That God Will Use Us in America”

The Early Export of Neo-Calvinism from the Netherlands to the United States

George Harinck

part 2: The Exploration of Theological, Cultural, and Political Developments

6 “The Blundering Reports of Careless or Obtuse Men”

August Tholuck and American Universalism

David Komline

7 Hans Lassen Martensen and the Mercersburg Theology

The Reinforcement of Christocentric Speculation

Lee C. Barrett

8 Lord Acton’s Discovery of America

The Beginnings of Lively Transatlantic Relations

Charlotte Hansen

9 Missionary Initiatives toward the Anglican Communion in Rome

English and Transatlantic Connections, 1830s–1850s

C. Michael Shea

10 Oppressive or Liberating?

Transatlantic Dialogues and the 1905 Separation of Church and State in France

Timothy Verhoeven

Epilogue: New Horizons in the Study of Transatlantic Religion

Hartmut Lehmann

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Annette G. Aubert, Ph.D. (2010), Westminster Theological Seminary, is Lecturer and Visiting Scholar in Church History at that institution. She is the author of The German Roots of Nineteenth-Century American Theology (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Zachary Purvis, D.Phil. (2014), University of Oxford, is Lecturer in Church History at Edinburgh Theological Seminary and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Göttingen. He is the author of Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Oxford University Press, 2016).