Mark Noll

Mark A. Noll (born 1946) is an American historian specializing in the history of Christianity in the United States. He holds the position of Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Noll himself is a Reformed evangelical Christian, and in 2005 was named by Time magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential evangelicals in America.^[1]

Biography

Noll is a graduate of Wheaton College, Illinois (B.A, English), the University of Iowa (M.A., English), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A., Church History and Theology), and Vanderbilt University (Ph.D, History of Christianity). Before coming to Notre Dame, he was on the faculty at Wheaton College, Illinois for twenty-seven years, where he taught in the departments of History and Theology as McManis Professor of Christian Thought. While at Wheaton, Noll also co-founded (with Nathan Hatch) and directed the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals.

Noll is a prolific author and many of his books have earned considerable acclaim within the academic community. In particular, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, a book about anti-intellectual tendencies within the American evangelical movement, was widely covered in both religious and secular publications.^[2] He was awarded a National Humanities Medal in the Oval Office by President George W. Bush in 2006.^[3]

Noll, along with other historians such as George Marsden, Nathan O. Hatch, and David Bebbington, has greatly contributed to the world's understanding of evangelical convictions and attitudes, past and present. He has caused many scholars and lay people to realize more deeply the complications inherent in the question, "Is America a Christian nation?"^[4]

In 1994, he co-signed Evangelicals and Catholics Together, an ecumenical document that expressed the need for greater cooperation between Evangelical and Catholic leaders in the United States.

Since the Fall of 2006, Noll has been a faculty member in Department of History at Notre Dame. He replaced the retiring George Marsden as Notre Dame's Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History.^[5] Noll stated that the move to Notre Dame has allowed him to concentrate on fewer subjects than his duties at Wheaton had allowed.^[6]

Bibliography

• Between Faith and Criticism; Evangelicals, Scholarship and The Bible In America (Harper and Row, 1986)
• One Nation Under God: Christian Faith and Political Action in America (HarperCollins, 1988)
• Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980s (Oxford University Press, 1989)
• Princeton and the Republic, 1768-1822: The Search for Christian Enlightenment in the Era of Samuel Stanhope Smith (Princeton University Press, 1989)
• A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (Eerdmans, 1992)
• The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans, 1994)
• Seasons of Grace (Baker, 1997)
• Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity (Baker, 1997)
• American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction (Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2000)
• Protestants in America (Religion in American Life) (Oxford University Press, 2000)
• God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860 (Oxford University Press, 2001)
• The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity (Erdmans, 2001)
• The Princeton Theology 1812-1921 : Scripture, Science, and Theological Method from Archibald Alexander to Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (Baker Academic, 2001)
• America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 2002)
• The Work We Have to Do: A History of Protestants in America (Oxford University Press, 2002)
• The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys (A History of Evangelicalism) (Intervarsity Press, 2004)
• Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism (co-written with Carolyn Nystrom) (Baker Books, 2005)
• Christians in the American Revolution (Regent College Publishing, 2006)
• The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
• What Happened to Christian Canada? (Regent College Publishing, 2007)
• The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith (Intervarsity Press, 2009)
• God and Race in American Politics: A Short History (Princeton University Press, 2010)
• Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa and Asia (co-written with Carolyn Nystrom) (IVP, 2011)
• Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011)
• Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind (Eerdmans, 2011)
• From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian's Discovery of the Global Christian Story (Baker Academic, 2014)
• In The Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783 (Oxford University Press, 2015)

References

1. Religion: The 25 most influential evangelicals in America Time Magazine (online ed.) Retrieved 2007-10-16.
2. Wolfe, A. (2000, October). The opening of the evangelical mind. Atlantic Monthly, 286(4), 55—76.
3. Office of the Press Secretary, Press Release: President Bush Announces 2006 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Recipients Retrieved 2007-11-22.
4. Noll, Mark et al. (1989). The Search for Christian America. Colorado Springs, CO:Helmers & Howard Publishing.
5. Moll, R. (2006, February 9). Mark Noll leaving Wheaton for Notre Dame. Christianity Today (Web-only Ed.). Retrieved 2007-10-16.
6. University of Notre Dame, Faculty Profile for Mark A. Noll

External links

• Mark Noll Notre Dame home page