Mark Noll

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Mark Alan Noll (born July 18, 1946 in Iowa City ) is an American church historian who taught as a professor at Wheaton College (Illinois) and at Notre Dame University in South Bend (Indiana) . He is considered an influential evangelical author, editor and institute founder who self-critically demanded more intellectual honesty and thoroughness from leading US evangelicals.

Live and act

Noll studied English at Wheaton College and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1968. He then studied comparative literature and German at the University of Iowa , where he received a master's degree in 1970. He completed his studies in history at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield and at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in 1972 and 1975, each with a Masters in Christian History .

From 1978 to 2006 Noll taught history and theology at Wheaton Evangelical College for 27 years. In the end he held the McManis Professorship for Christian Thought. Nathan Hatch, he founded around 1993 in Wheaton The Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (German: Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals ). In 1994 he was a co-signer of an ecumenical document calling on Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States to cooperate more closely.

In 2006, Noll became Professor of History in the Francis A. McAnaney Chair at Notre Dame Catholic University in South Bend, Indiana , where he replaced George Marsden . He has also been visiting professor at Regent College in Vancouver , Chicago and Harvard Divinity School .

He was on the board of directors at Books & Culture and Christian History and he was co-editor of the Library of Religious Biography (German: Series Religiöse Biographien ) at Eerdmans .

Research areas

As a church historian, Noll has specialized in the Reformation , Puritanism , Evangelicalism and the religion and intellectual history of America. He has taught in these fields and has published over forty works.

Honors

Noll is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2006 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House .

Private

Noll is married to Maggie and they live in South Bend, Indiana.

Fonts

  • With Nathan O. Hatch: The Bible in America: essays in cultural history . New York: Oxford University Press, Oxford 1982.
  • Eerdmans' handbook to Christianity in America . Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 1983.
  • 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, Oxford 1989.
  • Enlightenment in the Era of Samuel Stanhope Smith . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1989.
  • Princeton and the Republic, 1768-1822: The Search for Christian Religion and American politics: from the colonial period to the 1980s . New York: Oxford University Press, Oxford 1990.
  • A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada . Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 1992.
  • The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind . Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 1994.
  • Seasons of Grace . Baker, Grand Rapids 1997.
  • Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity . Baker, Grand Rapids 1997.
  • American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction . Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2000.
  • Protestants in America. Religion in American Life . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000.
  • Christianity in North America , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt , Leipzig 2000, ISBN 978-3-374-01814-7 .
    • The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity . Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 2001 (original English edition subsequently published).
  • God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860 . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001.
  • The Princeton Theology 1812-1921: Scripture, Science, and Theological Method from Archibald Alexander to Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield . Baker Academic, Grand Rapids 2001.
  • America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002.
  • The Work We Have to Do: A History of Protestants in America . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002.
  • The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys. A History of Evangelicalism . InterVarsity Press, 2004.
  • With Carolyn Nystrom: Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism . Baker, Grand Rapids 2005.
  • Christians in the American Revolution . Regent College Publishing, Vancouver 2006.
  • The Civil War as a Theological Crisis . University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
  • What Happened to Christian Canada? Regent College Publishing, Vancouver 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, Princeton 2010.
  • With Carolyn Nystrom: Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa and Asia . InterVarsity Press, 2011.
  • Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011.
  • Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind . Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 2011.
  • From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian's Discovery of the Global Christian Story . Baker Academic, Grand Rapids 2014.
  • In The Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492–1783 . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on encyclopedia.com .
  2. ^ Mark Noll on the Regent College website
  3. ↑ Mark Noll on the Wheaton College website
  4. ↑ Justin Taylor: A Tribute to Mark Noll by Nathan Hatch , The Gospel Coalition March 13, 2017
  5. ^ Mark Noll National Humanities Medal 2006
personal data
SURNAME Noll, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noll, Mark Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American church historian, university professor, and book author
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Iowa City