TY - BOOK AU - Clark,Elizabeth A. TI - The Fathers Refounded: Protestant Liberalism, Roman Catholic Modernism, and the Teaching of Ancient Christianity in Early Twentieth-Century America T2 - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion SN - 9780812295627 AV - BT82 .C53 2019eb U1 - 230 22 PY - 2018///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - Church history KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Historiography KW - Liberalism (Religion) KW - Protestant churches KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Modernism (Christian theology) KW - Catholic Church KW - United States KW - Theology KW - Study and teaching KW - Education KW - History-Ancient/Classical up to 500 CE KW - Religion/Religious Studies KW - RELIGION / Christianity / History KW - bisacsh KW - Academic Life KW - Ancient Studies KW - Classics KW - Religion KW - Religious Studies N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Roman Catholic Modernism and Protestant Liberalism --; Part I. Arthur Cushman McGiffert and Union Theological Seminary --; Chapter 2. McGiffert’s Life and Writings --; Chapter 3. McGiffert’s Assumptions, Influences, and Approaches --; Chapter 4. McGiffert’s Teaching of Early Christianity --; Part II. George LaPiana and Harvard Divinity School --; Chapter 5. LaPiana’s Life and Writings --; Chapter 6. LaPiana’s Assumptions, Influences, and Approaches --; Chapter 7. LaPiana’s Teaching of Early Christianity --; Part III. Shirley Jackson Case and the University of Chicago Divinity School --; Chapter 8. Case’s Life and Writings --; Chapter 9. Case’s Assumptions, Influences, and Approaches --; Chapter 10. Case’s Teaching of Early Christianity --; Conclusion --; Archival Sources and List of Abbreviations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Acknowledgments; restricted access N2 - In the early twentieth century, a new generation of liberal professors sought to prove Christianity's compatibility with contemporary currents in the study of philosophy, science, history, and democracy. These modernizing professors—Arthur Cushman McGiffert at Union Theological Seminary, George LaPiana at Harvard Divinity School, and Shirley Jackson Case at the University of Chicago Divinity School—hoped to equip their students with a revisionary version of early Christianity that was embedded in its social, historical, and intellectual settings. In The Fathers Refounded, Elizabeth A. Clark provides the first critical analysis of these figures' lives, scholarship, and lasting contributions to the study of Christianity.The Fathers Refounded continues the exploration of Christian intellectual revision begun by Clark in Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America. Drawing on rigorous archival research, Clark takes the reader through the professors' published writings, their institutions, and even their classrooms—where McGiffert tailored nineteenth-century German Protestant theology to his modernist philosophies; where LaPiana, the first Catholic professor at Harvard Divinity School, devised his modernism against the tight constraints of contemporary Catholic theology; and where Case promoted reading Christianity through social-scientific aims and methods. Each, in his own way, extricated his subfield from denominationally and theologically oriented approaches and aligned it with secular historical methodologies. In so doing, this generation of scholars fundamentally altered the directions of Catholic Modernism and Protestant Liberalism and offered the promise of reconciling Christianity and modern intellectual and social culture UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295627 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812295627 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812295627/original ER -