Includes bibliographical references and index.

God and Buckley at Yale (1951) -- Henry Sloane Coffin's Yale (1897) -- A "Christian college"? The Yale of Noah Porter and William Graham Sumner (1879-1881). The establishment of Protestant nonsectarianism : The burden of Christendom: seventeenth-century Harvard -- The new queen of the sciences and the new Republic -- Two kinds of secterianism -- A righteous consensus, Whig style. Defining the American university in a scientific age : American practicality and Germanic ideals: two visions for reform -- The Christian legacy in the epoch of science -- Positive Christianity versus Positivism at Noah Porter's Yale -- California: revolution without much ideology -- Methodological secularization and its Christian rationale at Hopkins -- Liberal Protestantism at Michigan: New England intentions with Jeffersonian results -- Harvard and the religion of humanity -- Holding the line at Princeton -- Making the world safe from the traditionalist establishment -- The low-church idea of a university. When the tie no longer binds : The trouble with the old-time religion -- The elusive ideal of academic freedom -- The Fundamentalist menace -- The obstacles to a Christian presence -- Outsiders -- Searching for a soul -- A church with the soul of a nation -- Liberal Protestantism without Protestantism .