Table of Contents

Introduction
Prologue (I): God and Buckley at Yale (1951)
Prologue (II): Henry Sloane Coffin's Yale (1897)
Prologue (III): Yale Embattled: Noah Porter vs. William Graham Sumner (1880)

Part I The Establishment of Protestant Nonsectarianism

1. The Burden of Christendom: Seventeenth-Century Harvard
2. The New Queen of the Sciences and the New Republic
3. Two Kinds of Sectarianism
4. A Righteous Consensus, Whig Style
5. The John the Baptist of the University Ideal

Part II Defining the University in a Scientific Age

6. The Christian Legacy in the Age of Science
7. Back to Noah Porter's Yale
8. Daniel Coit Gilman and the Model for a Modern University
9. Liberal Protestantism at Michigan
10. Harvard and the Religion of Humanity
11. Orthodoxy at the Gentlemen's Club
12. The Low-Church Idea of a University

Part III When the Tie No Longer Binds

13. The Trouble with the Old-Time Religion
14. The Elusive Ideal of Academic Freedom
15. The Fundamentalist Menace
16. The Obstacles to a Christian Presence
17. Outsiders
18. Searching for a Soul
19. A Church with the Soul of a Nation
20. Liberal Protestantism without Protestantism
21. The Twenty-First Century Post-Secular University

Epilogue: An Unexpected Sequel: A Renaissance in Christian Academia

About the Author

George M. Marsden is Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History at The University of Notre Dame and a Distinguished Scholar in the History of Christianity at Calvin Theological Seminary. He has published major works on a variety of topics concerning American religion and culture, and his awards include The Bancroft Prize in History and the Grawemeyer Award in Religion. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.