Apparently theology.
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The Harvard and Yale divinity schools did not train their students to earn their own livings behind a horse and a plow or prepare them to spend half their days in the saddle going from one rural hamlet to another.As George Whitefield charged, the primary impact of these schools on many of their studnets, then as now, may have been to replace faith with theology and belief with unbelief. Indeed, it was in the religion departments and divinity schools, not in the science departments, that unbelief was formulated, and promulgated in American intellectual life."
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Finke, Roger, and Rodney Stark.
The Churching of America: Winners and Losers in our Religion Economy. New Brunswick, N.J.: Routledge, p. 86.
It's encouraging to know that more concrete, precise disciplines won't be hazardous to one's faith like the more abstract ones, speculative ones.