- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Key Events in Hodge’s Life
- Chronology
- Key Figures in Hodge’s Life
- Prologue
- Part I 1730–1810
- 1 Andrew Hodge, Family Patriarch
- 2 Presbyterian Heritage
- 3 Hodge’s Parents
- Part II The 1810s
- 4 The Beginnings of Self
- 5 Prince’s Town
- 6 Witherspoon’s Common Sense
- 7“Classick Learning”
- 8 Enlisting under the Banner of King Jesus
- 9 Happy Jaunts and the “Man of Men”
- 10“Give Us Ministers!”
- 11 Student Years at the Seminary
- 12“Where Am I to Go?”
- Part III The 1820s
- 13“The Most Eligible Situation for Improvement”
- 14 New England’s Theological Landscape
- 15 Democratic Christianity
- 16 The Birth of the <i>Biblical Repertory</i>
- 17 The Trip to Europe
- 18 Halle
- 19 Berlin and the Return Home
- 20 A Sense of Mission
- 21 The <i>Repertory</i> Reborn
- Part IV The 1830s
- 22 The Imputation Controversy
- 23 Romans
- 24 Crippled in Body, But Not in Mind
- 25 Home Life
- 26 The Coming Storm
- 27 The Slavery Question
- 28 The Schism
- 29 The New School Fights Back
- 30 Writing History
- Part V The 1840s
- 31 The Way of Life
- 32 Didactic Theology
- 33 Teaching and Preaching
- 34 The Public Face of the Seminary
- 35 Moderator of the General Assembly
- 36“The Nonsensical Dialect of Transcendentalism”
- 37 Roman Catholic Baptism
- 38 The Infection of German Idealism
- 39“When the Will of the Wife is the Other Way”
- 40“Covered in Gloom”
- Part VI The 1850s
- 41 College Trustee
- 42 Language and Feeling
- 43 The Inspiration of Scripture
- 44“Graces of the Spirit”
- 45 The Battle against “Churchianity”
- 46 Thornwell and “Thus Saith the Lord”
- 47 The Pauline Commentaries
- 48 Politics and Conscience
- Part VII The 1860s
- 49 The State of the Country and the Church
- 50 Hodge’s Family at War
- 51 The Unities of Mankind
- 52 The Disunities of Mankind
- 53 Reuniting the Old and New Schools
- Part VIII The 1870s
- 54 The <i>Systematic Theology</i>
- 55“The Apex of My Life”
- 56 Science and Darwinism
- 57“O Death, Where is Thy Sting?”
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Democratic Christianity
Democratic Christianity
- Chapter:
- (p.94) 15 Democratic Christianity
- Source:
- Charles Hodge
- Author(s):
Paul C. Gutjahr (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Chapter Fifteen offers an overview of the influence of the ideology of democracy on American Protestantism. American theology began to change in the early nineteenth century as Americans increasingly believed in an egalitarian ethic. Princeton Seminary remained firmly committed to a high sense of God’s sovereignty and the implications that had for a hierarchical church governance structure.
Keywords: Democratic Christianity, Jacksonian Democracy, Andrew Jackson, Princeton Seminary, Calvinism, sovereignty, Timothy Dwight, Andover Seminary, Kentucky, David Rice, Baptist, Methodist, Disciples of Christ, Alexander Campbell
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Key Events in Hodge’s Life
- Chronology
- Key Figures in Hodge’s Life
- Prologue
- Part I 1730–1810
- 1 Andrew Hodge, Family Patriarch
- 2 Presbyterian Heritage
- 3 Hodge’s Parents
- Part II The 1810s
- 4 The Beginnings of Self
- 5 Prince’s Town
- 6 Witherspoon’s Common Sense
- 7“Classick Learning”
- 8 Enlisting under the Banner of King Jesus
- 9 Happy Jaunts and the “Man of Men”
- 10“Give Us Ministers!”
- 11 Student Years at the Seminary
- 12“Where Am I to Go?”
- Part III The 1820s
- 13“The Most Eligible Situation for Improvement”
- 14 New England’s Theological Landscape
- 15 Democratic Christianity
- 16 The Birth of the <i>Biblical Repertory</i>
- 17 The Trip to Europe
- 18 Halle
- 19 Berlin and the Return Home
- 20 A Sense of Mission
- 21 The <i>Repertory</i> Reborn
- Part IV The 1830s
- 22 The Imputation Controversy
- 23 Romans
- 24 Crippled in Body, But Not in Mind
- 25 Home Life
- 26 The Coming Storm
- 27 The Slavery Question
- 28 The Schism
- 29 The New School Fights Back
- 30 Writing History
- Part V The 1840s
- 31 The Way of Life
- 32 Didactic Theology
- 33 Teaching and Preaching
- 34 The Public Face of the Seminary
- 35 Moderator of the General Assembly
- 36“The Nonsensical Dialect of Transcendentalism”
- 37 Roman Catholic Baptism
- 38 The Infection of German Idealism
- 39“When the Will of the Wife is the Other Way”
- 40“Covered in Gloom”
- Part VI The 1850s
- 41 College Trustee
- 42 Language and Feeling
- 43 The Inspiration of Scripture
- 44“Graces of the Spirit”
- 45 The Battle against “Churchianity”
- 46 Thornwell and “Thus Saith the Lord”
- 47 The Pauline Commentaries
- 48 Politics and Conscience
- Part VII The 1860s
- 49 The State of the Country and the Church
- 50 Hodge’s Family at War
- 51 The Unities of Mankind
- 52 The Disunities of Mankind
- 53 Reuniting the Old and New Schools
- Part VIII The 1870s
- 54 The <i>Systematic Theology</i>
- 55“The Apex of My Life”
- 56 Science and Darwinism
- 57“O Death, Where is Thy Sting?”
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
