George M. Marsden

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George M. Marsden (born February 25, 1939 ) is an American historian and theologian .

Life

Marsden grew up in the orthodox - Presbyterian in church. He graduated from Haverford College with a BA , then studied at Westminster Theological Seminary , where he received the BD . He graduated from Yale University with a Ph.D. from. After graduating, he taught at Calvin College for more than two decades , after which he moved to Duke Divinity School in 1986 . In 1992 he accepted a professorship in history at the University of Notre Dame . His work with the title Fundamentalism and American Culture , which appeared in 1980, is considered to be groundbreaking in the academic analysis of Christian fundamentalism . Marsden examined the interrelationships between Christianity, American culture, higher education, and evangelicalism . Five years of research funded by the J. Howard Pew Freedom Trust eventually led to the publication of The Soul of the American University . In the work he assumes that believing people are no longer welcome at universities. Marsden himself and his colleagues held prominent positions at the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals . In the mid-1990s he devoted his research to Jonathan Edwards , about whom he published a highly acclaimed biography.

In 2016 Marsden was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works

  • The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian Experience , 1970
  • Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925 , 1987
  • Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism , 1987
  • The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief , 1994
  • The Outrageous Idea of ​​Christian Scholarship , 1997
  • Jonathan Edwards: A Life , 2003

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Randall Herbert Balmer: Marsden, George M. (1939-) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 426 (English).
  2. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences : Newly Elected Fellows. In: amacad.org. Retrieved April 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Marsden, George M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1939