Mark A. Noll
Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History
Field
American Religious History
Profile
Mark Noll comes to the history department at Notre Dame, after 27 years at Wheaton College as a member of the history and theology departments, where he taught a range of courses from American intellectual history and the general history of Christianity to modern British history and the history of history-writing. In coming to Notre Dame, he looks forward to concentrating on fewer subjects. Questions at the intersection of, on the one hand, religion, and, on the other, politics or intellectual life, are the ones that have always interested him most. Among the books that have meant the most to Noll are F. F. Bruce, The English Bible; A. G. Dickens, The English Reformation; George Herbert, The Temple; George Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture; Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time; David Newsome, The Parting of Friends; Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country; J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings; and Andrew Walls, The Missionary Movement in Christian History.
Current Project
In October 2006, Noll is scheduled to give three lectures on a very expansive topic: “Race, Religion, and American Politics from Nat Turner to George W. Bush.” He plans to expand these three lectures into a short book. He is also thinking about and doing research for a book on the public history of the Bible in North America.
Teaching Interests
Seminars and more specialized courses on themes in American religious and cultural history; lectures and more general courses on the recent world history of Christianity, the history of Canada, and maybe one or two others as needed.
Recent Publications
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
“What Happened to Christian Canada?” Church History 75 (June 2006): 245-73.
(with Carolyn Nystrom), Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Catholicism (Baker, 2005).
The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys (InterVarsity Press, 2004).
America's God, from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Contact
Office: 481 Decio Faculty Hall
Phone: (574) 631-7574
Email: Mark.Noll.8@nd.edu
Office Hours: TBA