Charles Hodge, Guardian of American Orthodoxy

http://www.patheos.com//Resources/Additional-Resources/Presbyterian-Pope-Thomas-Kidd-01-04-2012.html

Everyone interested in American religious history—especially those with Reformed sympathies—should know about Charles Hodge. Some called Hodge, the most influential seminary educator of the 19th century, the "Pope of Presbyterianism." Hodge's stature in religious history has faded, obscured by figures from his era with more dubious legacies, including the evangelist Charles Finney, and Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. But Hodge's place in the first rank of American theologians should receive a deserved boost from Paul Gutjahr's excellent biography (just announced as a 2012 Christianity Today book award winner) Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy.

The article is basically a mini-review of what seems to be the first critical biography of Hodge since the one written by his son, A.A. Hodge, two years after his death.