Puritan Protagonist: President Thomas Clap of Yale College. Louis Leonard Tucker

1963 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-403
Author(s):  
John A. Schutz
Keyword(s):  
Yale College

The New Queen of the Sciences and the New Republic

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
George M. Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Christian Higher Education ◽  
New Thought ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Yale College ◽  
New Synthesis ◽  
Religious Dimensions ◽  
American Schools ◽  
The Right

In the eighteenth century Christian higher education faced several new challenges. Most notable is the Enlightenment. American schools generally incorporated moderate Enlightenment ideas into their teaching, especially the new moral philosophy growing out of the tradition of John Locke and Scottish Common Sense Philosophy. The religious dimensions of higher education were intensified by the Great Awakening and the associated New Light Movement. Yale College, founded in 1701, became by mid-century a leading New Light school. So was the College of New Jersey (Princeton), founded in 1746. A number of other new colleges had New Light connections. Thomas Clap at Yale, Jonathan Edwards, and Ezra Stiles each illustrate efforts to relate the new thought of the era to Christian teachings. The era of the American Revolution brought a new synthesis of Christian concerns and concerns for the right ordering of society, as best illustrated by the work of President John Witherspoon at Princeton.

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