Thomas Albert Howard currently holds the Stephen Phillips Chair in history and is director of the Jerusalem & Athens Forum at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusettes. He is the author of Religion and the Rise of Historicism and Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University, winner of the Lilly Fellows Program Book Award for 2007. He is also the editor of The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue by Mark Noll and James Turner.

...an ambitious and substanial book that deserves attention from those working in German studies as much as it does from those engaged in religious history...a serious and commendable work.

• I. INTRODUCTION ; 1. Theology, Modernity, and the German University ; 2. On the State and Modern Science 'in the German sense' ; 3. Plan of Study ; 4. Broader Considerations, or 'the Pathos of Modern Theology' ; II. SACRA FACULTAS AND THE COMING OF GERMAN MODERNITY ; Introduction ; 5. The Medieval Legacy ; 6. Humanism, the Reformation, and the Universities ; 7. The Eighteenth Century: Decline and Critique ; 8. The Way Forward: Halle and Gottingen ; 9. 'Torchbearer or Trainbearer?' The Faculties and Immanuel Kant ; III. WISSENSCHAFT, AND THE FOUNDING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN ; Introduction ; 10. Revolutionary Times and the Ascendancy of Wissenschaft ; 11. 'A New Creation' ; 12. Theology and the Idea of the University ; 13. Early Operations: Berlin's Theological Faculty, 1810-1819 ; 14. 'Renewing Protestantism': Schleiermacher and the Challenge of Modern Theological Education ; IV. AN ERASTIAN MODERNITY? CHURCH, STATE, AND EDUCATION IN EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY PRUSSIA ; Introduction ; 15. Church and State before 1806 ; 16. 1806 and the Prussian Kultusministerium ; 17. 'A Realm of the Intelligence': Minister Altenstein and his Legacy ; V. THEOLOGIA BETWEEN SCIENCE AND THE STATE ; Introduction ; 18. Historical Trends and Developments, 1810-1918 ; 19. The Rise and Fall of 'Theological Encyclopedia' ; 20. History, Commemoration, and University ; 21. 'The Age of German Footnotes': Visitors from Abroad, Admirers from Afar ; 22. 'The Crisis of the Theological Faculty': Lagarde, Overbeck, and Harnack ; Conclusion: Janus Gazing

Thomas Albert Howard currently holds the Stephen Phillips Chair in history and is director of the Jerusalem & Athens Forum at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusettes. He is the author of Religion and the Rise of Historicism and Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University, winner of the Lilly Fellows Program Book Award for 2007. He is also the editor of The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue by Mark Noll and James Turner.

...an ambitious and substanial book that deserves attention from those working in German studies as much as it does from those engaged in religious history...a serious and commendable work.

• I. INTRODUCTION ; 1. Theology, Modernity, and the German University ; 2. On the State and Modern Science 'in the German sense' ; 3. Plan of Study ; 4. Broader Considerations, or 'the Pathos of Modern Theology' ; II. SACRA FACULTAS AND THE COMING OF GERMAN MODERNITY ; Introduction ; 5. The Medieval Legacy ; 6. Humanism, the Reformation, and the Universities ; 7. The Eighteenth Century: Decline and Critique ; 8. The Way Forward: Halle and Gottingen ; 9. 'Torchbearer or Trainbearer?' The Faculties and Immanuel Kant ; III. WISSENSCHAFT, AND THE FOUNDING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN ; Introduction ; 10. Revolutionary Times and the Ascendancy of Wissenschaft ; 11. 'A New Creation' ; 12. Theology and the Idea of the University ; 13. Early Operations: Berlin's Theological Faculty, 1810-1819 ; 14. 'Renewing Protestantism': Schleiermacher and the Challenge of Modern Theological Education ; IV. AN ERASTIAN MODERNITY? CHURCH, STATE, AND EDUCATION IN EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY PRUSSIA ; Introduction ; 15. Church and State before 1806 ; 16. 1806 and the Prussian Kultusministerium ; 17. 'A Realm of the Intelligence': Minister Altenstein and his Legacy ; V. THEOLOGIA BETWEEN SCIENCE AND THE STATE ; Introduction ; 18. Historical Trends and Developments, 1810-1918 ; 19. The Rise and Fall of 'Theological Encyclopedia' ; 20. History, Commemoration, and University ; 21. 'The Age of German Footnotes': Visitors from Abroad, Admirers from Afar ; 22. 'The Crisis of the Theological Faculty': Lagarde, Overbeck, and Harnack ; Conclusion: Janus Gazing