| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Charles Hodge Revisited: A Critical Appraisal of His Life and Work. Ed. by John W. Stewart and James H. Moorhead. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. x, 375 pp. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-8028-4750-1.)
The nineteenth-century Princeton theologian Charles Hodge has alternatively been ignored, dismissed, mocked, or treated with condescension by American historians. Despite Hodge's extraordinary influence and manifest erudition, only recently have historians of American intellectual life given this scion of Protestant orthodoxy serious attention. Charles Hodge Revisited represents the fruit of this comparatively recent effort to take Hodge more seriously and to reconstruct his cultural context. The dozen essays in this volume began as lectures at a 1997 conference on Hodge at Princeton University. Although the essayists vary in their sympathy for their subject and for his theological commitments, they concur that traditional treatments of Hodge have been deficient.	1
The essays attempt a fresh look at Hodge from a variety of illuminating angles. The coeditor John W. Stewart begins with an exploration of why neither theological innovators of his era nor postmodern scholars found Hodge's work attractive. "Whatever else typified Hodge's manner of thinking," Stewart observes, "he had a deep quest for structure and a distinct intolerance for ambiguity" (p. 10). In a perceptive chapter, James Turner clarifies how Hodge faced down what he saw as the three primary threats of his day: rampant individualism, romantic subjectivism, and historicism. Ultimately, his "denial of the power of history" rendered him "radically out of step ... with the leading intellectual trends of his century" (p. 51).	. . .

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