Elizabeth A. Clark is the John Carlisle Kilgo Professor Emerita of Religion at Duke University. She is author of History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn, Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity, and The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian Debate. Her Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.