In 1826, the Princeton theologian Charles Hodge traveled to Europe because he felt his facility in foreign languages was terribly deficient. During Hodge's visit, Archibald Alexander warned him to "remember that you live in a poisoned atmosphere," because of the rising tide of liberal Protestantism. "If you lose the lively and deep impression of divine truth, if you fall into skepticism or even into coldness you will lose more than you gain from the German professors and libraries." Hodge later noted that Germany had more religious diversity than he had first imagined. Even so, Alexander's remarks reflect the commonplaces of a centuries-old religious divide, one that is both geographical because of the massive Atlantic but also deeply ideological.
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Issue: "No Girls Allowed" May/June 2012 Vol. 21 No. 3 Page number(s): 54-56
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