Church History in the Age of Science: Historiographical Patterns in the United States, 1876-1918

by Henry W. Bowden

Considered a founder of the field of church historiography, Henry Warner Bowden provides the earliest analyses of the work of John C. Shea, Ephraim Emerton, Frank H. Foster, Arthur C. McGiffert, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Philip Schaff.   Bowden explicates the dramatic juxtapositions resulting from two powerful and opposing definitions of objectivity vs. faith; naturalism vs. providential activity; science vs. theology. As the decades passed, the theological position gradually lost its appeal, allowing scientific ideals to prevail.

Genres: History

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991