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 sectarianism -- 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.