New Perspectives on Old Princeton, 1812-1929

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-31696-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism

This book focuses on Princeton Theological Seminary and the theologians who taught there from the time of its founding in 1812 to the time of its reorganisation in 1929. It confronts the standard assessment of Old Princeton in the historiography of North American evangelicalism and sets out why a new paradigm is needed. The volume critically engages with the ‘Ahlstrom thesis’ and other more recent scholarship concerning Old Princeton’s relationship to the Scottish intellectual tradition. The contributions seek to move beyond Old Princeton’s alleged indebtedness to Enlightenment thought and advance a more constructive reading of the Old Princetonians, their theology, and their place in the American evangelical experience. The book offers a fresh and more accurate assessment of the theological and philosophical assumptions that held sway at Old Princeton and through the seminary to the American continent and beyond. It will appeal to scholars interested in theology, religious history, and intellectual history.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deyoung, Kevin

Helseth, Paul Kjoss

Smith, David P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Samuel Miller on the Life of the Mind: Re-imagining the Princeton Paradigm 2. Reformed Orthodoxy, Old Princeton, and Natural Theology 3. Archibald Alexander and the Philosophy of Common Sense 4. Jonathan Edwards, Old Princeton, and American Calvinism 5. Politics, John Witherspoon, and Old Princeton 6. Old Princeton and the Westminster Standards 7. Charles Hodge and Rationalism in Germany and America, 1820–1870 8. The Spirituality of the Church and Her ‘Painful Responsibilities’ 9. The Task of Theology, Progressive Orthodoxy, and the Function of Scripture 10. The ‘Circle of the Sciences’ and the Theological Nature of All Knowledge 11. Engaging the Evolution Question at Old Princeton 12. Old Princeton and Effacing ‘This Blot Upon Our Holy Religion’

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin DeYoung is Senior Pastor of Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, NC, and Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC.

Paul Kjoss Helseth is Professor of Christian Thought at University of Northwestern—St. Paul, St. Paul, MN.

David P. Smith is Pastor of Covenant Fellowship in Greensboro, NC, and adjunct professor of Historical Theology at Erskine Seminary in Due West, SC.