Transatlantic Religion

Annette G. Aubert, Ph.D. (2010), Westminster Theological Seminary, is Lecturer and Visiting Scholar in Church History at that institution. She is the author of The German Roots of Nineteenth-Century American Theology (Oxford University Press, 2013). Zachary Purvis, D.Phil. (2014), University of Oxford, is Lecturer in Church History at Edinburgh Theological Seminary and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Göttingen. He is the author of Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Foreword


Acknowledgments


Notes on Contributors


Introduction


 Annette G. Aubert and Zachary Purvis





part 1: Education and the Establishment of New Networks


1 A Republic of Letters for the Kingdom of God


 Protestant Religious Journalism, 1795–1810


 Andrew Kloes





2 “While We Are Making Ships, They Are Manufacturing Theories”


 Americans and German Theology before ca. 1840


 Andrew Z. Hansen





3 George Bancroft’s Encounter with Eichhorn’s Biblical Criticism and the University of Göttingen


 Paul E. Kerry





4 Transatlantic Mentoring


 Philip Schaff and Arthur Cushman McGiffert


 Elizabeth A. Clark





5 “I Have the Quiet Prayer That God Will Use Us in America”


 The Early Export of Neo-Calvinism from the Netherlands to the United States


 George Harinck





part 2: The Exploration of Theological, Cultural, and Political Developments


6 “The Blundering Reports of Careless or Obtuse Men”


 August Tholuck and American Universalism


 David Komline





7 Hans Lassen Martensen and the Mercersburg Theology


 The Reinforcement of Christocentric Speculation


 Lee C. Barrett





8 Lord Acton’s Discovery of America


 The Beginnings of Lively Transatlantic Relations


 Charlotte Hansen





9 Missionary Initiatives toward the Anglican Communion in Rome


 English and Transatlantic Connections, 1830s–1850s


 C. Michael Shea





10 Oppressive or Liberating?


 Transatlantic Dialogues and the 1905 Separation of Church and State in France


 Timothy Verhoeven





Epilogue: New Horizons in the Study of Transatlantic Religion


 Hartmut Lehmann





Index