Charles Hodge Guardian of American Orthodoxy [Paperback]

Charles Hodge (1797-1878) was one of nineteenth-century America's leading theologians, owing in part to a lengthy teaching career, voluminous writings, and a faculty post at one of the nation's most influential schools, Princeton Theological Seminary. Surprisingly, the only biography of this towering figure was written by his son, just two years after his death. Paul C. Gutjahr's book is the first modern critical biography of a man some have called the Pope of Presbyterianism.

Hodge's legacy is especially important to American Presbyterians. His brand of theological conservatism became vital in the 1920s, as Princeton Seminary saw itself, and its denomination, split. The conservative wing held unswervingly to the Old School tradition championed by Hodge, and ultimately founded the breakaway Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

The views that Hodge developed, refined, and propagated helped shape many of the central traditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American evangelicalism. Hodge helped establish a profound reliance on the Bible among Evangelicals, and he became one of the nation's most vocal proponents of biblical inerrancy. Gutjahr's study reveals the exceptional depth, breadth, and longevity of Hodge's theological influence and illuminates the varied and complex nature of conservative American Protestantism.

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. l“B