• Introduction
• Prologue (I): God and Buckley at Yale (1951)
• Prologue (II): Henry Sloane Coffin's Yale (1897)
• Prologue (III): Yale Embattled: Noah Porter vs. William Graham Sumner (1880)
• Part I The Establishment of Protestant Nonsectarianism
• 1. The Burden of Christendom: Seventeenth-Century Harvard
• 2. The New Queen of the Sciences and the New Republic
• 3. Two Kinds of Sectarianism
• 4. A Righteous Consensus, Whig Style
• 5. The John the Baptist of the University Ideal
• Part II Defining the University in a Scientific Age
• 6. The Christian Legacy in the Age of Science
• 7. Back to Noah Porter's Yale
• 8. Daniel Coit Gilman and the Model for a Modern University
• 9. Liberal Protestantism at Michigan
• 10. Harvard and the Religion of Humanity
• 11. Orthodoxy at the Gentlemen's Club
• 12. The Low-Church Idea of a University
• Part III When the Tie No Longer Binds
• 13. The Trouble with the Old-Time Religion
• 14. The Elusive Ideal of Academic Freedom
• 15. The Fundamentalist Menace
• 16. The Obstacles to a Christian Presence
• 17. Outsiders
• 18. Searching for a Soul
• 19. A Church with the Soul of a Nation
• 20. Liberal Protestantism without Protestantism
• 21. The Twenty-First Century Post-Secular University
• Epilogue: An Unexpected Sequel: A Renaissance in Christian Academia