Piety and Profession

In Trust "A monumental achievement in both quantity and quality, Miller's work is more than an institutional history of American seminaries - it is a history of American Protestantism told through the story of the institutions that train Protestant clergy." E. Brooks Holifield -- Emory University "Glenn Miller has written a comprehensive account of Protestant seminary education, but he has also produced a significant and penetrating interpretation of Protestantism in American culture. Vast in scope, the book links ministerial training to a social and cultural context that can encompass lucid accounts of how railroads shaped the schools, consumption patterns affected their governance, capitalists financed innovation within them, theological conflict divided them, and science shook them. The cast of characters is immense, from learned theologians and shrewd administrators to activist women and determined African American clergy. By telling the story with such awareness of its larger setting, Miller allows us to see American Protestantism in a new and fresh way."