Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction: Higher Education and Religion in Nineteenth-Century United States 1
4. Part I. The Setting: Contextualizing the Study of Early Christianity in America
5. Chapter 1. The Institutions and the Professors 21
6. Chapter 2. Infrastructure: Teaching, Textbooks, Primary Sources, and Libraries 55
7. Part II. History and Historiography
8. Chapter 3 Defending the Faith: European Theories and American Professors 97
9. Chapter 4. History and Church History 138
10. Chapter 5 Development and Decline: Challenges to Historiographical Categories 168
11. Part III. Topics of Early Christian History in Nineteenth-Century Analysis
12. Chapter 6. Polity and Practice 205
13. Chapter 7. Roman Catholicism 238
14. Chapter 8. Asceticism, Marriage, Women, and the Family 271
15. Chapter 9. The Uses of Augustine 314
16. Appendix: Student Notetakers 347
17. Abbreviations and Archival Sources 351
18. Notes 355
19. Bibliography 499
20. Index 541
21. Acknowledgments 559