Charles Hodge

Charles Hodge (1797-1878) was one of nineteenth-century America's leading theologians, whom some have called the "Pope of Presbyterianism. " Paul Gutjahr's book is the first modern critical biography of this towering figure.

Associate Professor of English, American Studies, and Religious Studies

Illustrations
Key Events in Hodge's Life
Key Figures in Hodge's Life
Prologue - The Pope of Presbyterianism
Part I 1797-1810 - The Hodges of Philadelphia
1. Andrew Hodge, Family Patriarch
2. Presbyterian Heritage
3. Beauty and the Beast
Part II The 1810s - Student Years
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 - Young Professor
13. "The Most Eligible Situation for Improvement "
14. New England's Theological Landscape
15. Democratic Christianity
16. The Birth of the Biblical Repertory
17. The Trip to Europe
18. "The Dirtiest, Ugliest, Gloomiest Town "
19. Berlin and the Return Home
20. A Sense of Mission
21. The Repertory Reborn
Part IV The 1830s - Crusader
22. The Imputation Controversy
23. Romans
24. Crippled in Body, But not in Mind
25. Hodge's Home: "Sunny, Genial, Kindly and Tolerant "
26. The Coming Storm
27. The Slavery Question
28. The Schism
29. The New School Fights Back
30. Writing History
Part V The 1840s - Professor of Theology
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. Infection of German Idealism
39. "When the will of the wife is the other way "
40. "Covered in Gloom "
Part VI The 1850s - Inspired Churchman
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 - Conflicted Unionist
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 1870s - Systematic Theologian and Scientist
54. The Systematic Theology
55. "The apex of my life "
56. Science and Darwinism
57. "O Death, Where is Thy Sting? "
Epilogue - Hodge's Legacy
Index