Charles Hodge

Charles Hodge
Andrew Hoffecker
Paperback, 400 pp., $19.99
P & R Publishing (November 1, 2011)

Charles Hodge (1797–1878) is regarded by many as the most significant American theologian of the nineteenth century. He drove the rapid growth of theological education and contributed to Presbyterianism’s wide-ranging influence in public life. His advocacy of a Reformed orthodoxy combined with evangelical piety spilled over into American evangelicalism as a whole. Hodge helped to define a distinctive ministerial model—the pastor-scholar—and his fingerprints can be seen all over the Reformed Christian scene of today.