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To Count Our Days : A History of Columbia Theological Seminary /
"Institutional histories can invite a yawn. They are important for specialists and for those with a personal interest in a specific institution, but as a category of historical writing they do not evoke an imagine of a page-turning narrative. Yet institutions have cultures with their own ritual...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
The University of South Carolina Press,
[2019]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- An antebellum world. Beginnings ; Slaves: in the shadows of Columbia ; Gentlemen theologians in a slave society ; "A golden era" ; Moderates enraged
- A southern horizon. Civil War ; "A just but lost cause" ; An impoverished world ; Evolution and "the phraseology of the past" ; Poor but genteel ; A president in "the modern sense of the term"
- A seminary for the New South. Decatur: the early years ; Years of war and a growing prosperity ; The turbulent 1960s
- New horizons. Theological education in a free market ; A quest for excellence ; Seeking common ground ; An egalitarian and inclusive spirit.