Leading Historian of American Christianity to Lecture at Nation's Largest Episcopalian Seminary
Dr. Mark Noll, a leading historian of American Christianity, will be the guest lecturer at Virginia Seminary, the largest of the 11 accredited seminaries of the Episcopal Church, on Tuesday, April 12.
Noll is the Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Christian thought at Wheaton College, Illinois, and also the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in American History and Ethics at the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress.
Noll, Time Magazine's one of "25 most influential evangelicals in America," will be lecturing on the topic: Race, Religion, the Civil War, and the Election of 2004.
His particular interests consist of American theology, politics, and society from the Great Awakening to the Civil War; the intellectual history of Protestantism; the cultural history of the Bible, especially in American public life; hymn singing; and Evangelicalism in the North Atlantic region of the United States.
All are welcomed to join the lecture at 4 p.m.
in Addison 101 at Virginia Seminary