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The Fathers Refounded is a truly brilliant book, massively researched, beautifully written, often witty, and rich with insight. -Grant Wacker, author of America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of America Focusing on Protestant and Catholic thinkers who developed fresh interpretations of Christianity during a transformational era in U.S. intellectual and religious life, Elizabeth A. Clark constructs an illuminating narrative about the complex relationship between Christian faith and modern experience. Her trans-denominational work is a model for future scholarship in U.S. religious history. -James P. McCartin, Fordham University

The Fathers Refounded is a truly brilliant book, massively researched, beautifully written, often witty, and rich with insight. -Grant Wacker, author of America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of America Focusing on Protestant and Catholic thinkers who developed fresh interpretations of Christianity during a transformational era in U.S. intellectual and religious life, Elizabeth A. Clark constructs an illuminating narrative about the complex relationship between Christian faith and modern experience. Her transdenominational work is a model for future scholarship in U.S. religious history. -James P. McCartin, Fordham University

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Elizabeth A. Clark (1938–2021) was John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Duke University. She is author of History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn, Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity, and The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian Debate. Her Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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