Yesteryear's Faith Seeking Understanding (Fisk)

Author: Philip John Fisk

ISBN: 9781666734058

Binding: paperback

Section: Christianity-General

This book turns to university professors who brought classical, medieval, Reformation, and Renaissance thought to bear on the teaching of the doctrine of providence at the early New England Colleges. Part One introduces the reader to the art of disputation and provides a guided historical-theological tour of scholastic distinctions that were used by doctors of the church. Part Two invites the reader to follow the author on his journeys to Harvard, Yale, the College of New Jersey, and the College of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations' commencement-day disputations in imagined Platonic-like dialogues with real characters, times, locations, and quoted texts.