Dec 18, 2020
Mark Noll is Research Professor of History at Regent
College and a leading church historian. He recently retired as
the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of
Notre Dame, having previously served as Professor of History and
Theological Studies at Wheaton College. His teaching included
courses on American religious and intellectual history, the
Reformation, world Christianity, and Canadian history.
Dr. Noll has written and edited numerous books, most recently
including Evangelicals: Who they Have Been, Are Now, and
Could Be (with George Marsden and David Bebbington,
Eerdmans, 2019), In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible
in American Public Life (OUP, 2015), From Every
Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian
Story (Baker Academic, 2014), Jesus Christ and
the Life of the Mind (Eerdmans, 2011),
and Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa and
Asia (co-written with Carolyn Nystrom, IVP, 2011). He has
also served on the editorial boards for Books & Culture
and Christian History, and as co-editor of Library of
Religious Biography for Wm. B. Eerdmans. In 2006 he
received the National Endowment for the Humanities medal at the
White House.
We discuss a select chapter
from Evangelicals: Who they Have Been, Are Now, and
Could Be (with George Marsden and David Bebbington,
Eerdmans, 2019), titled, "Noun or Adjective? The Fanatical Ravings
of a Nominalist."