GEORGE M. MARSDEN
November 2005
Home address: 50507 Mercury Dr., Granger IN 46530 Telephone number: (574) 277-8531 Office address: Department of History, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 Telephone Number: 631-7319 Birthdate: February 25, 1939 Married: (1969) Lucie Commeret Church Affiliation: Christian Reformed Church
Education:
Haverford College, B.A., 1959, honors in history
Westminster Theological Seminary B.D., 1963
Yale University M.A.,1961, Ph.D. 1965 (American Studies)
Topic of Dissertation: "The New School Presbyterian Mind: A Study of Theology in Mid-Nineteenth Century America"
Professional Positions:
Assistant in Instruction, Yale University, 1964-65.
Instructor, Assistant and Associate Professor, 1965-1974; Professor in Department of History, Calvin College, 1974-86.
Director for M.A. in Christian Studies Program, Calvin College, 1980-83.
Visiting Professor of Church History, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, 1976-77.
Visiting Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley, 1986 (spring semester), 1990 (fall semester).
Professor of the History of Christianity in America, The Divinity School, Duke University, 1986-1992.
Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame, 1992-
Visiting Professor of Church History, St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews, Spring 2003
Honors and Awards:
Lippincott Prize for History, Haverford College, 1959.
Younger Humanists Fellowship from National Endowment for the Humanities for study of "Fundamentalism and American Culture," 1971-72.
Fellow, Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, 1979-80.
"Book of the Year" for Fundamentalism and American Culture, from Eternity magazine, 1981.
Calvin Research Fellowship, 1982-83.
"Book of the Year for Reforming Fundamentalism, from Eternity magazine," 1988.
Four-year grant from J. Howard Pew Freedom Trust, for project on "The Religious and the Secular in Modern America," 1988-1992.
President, American Society of Church History, 1992.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship - 1995, to work on a biography of Jonathan Edwards
Fundamentalism and American Culture, named one of 100 “Books of the Century,” in Christianity Today survey.
Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 2003
The Research Achievement Award, University of Notre Dame, 2004
Awards for Jonathan Edwards: A Life:
The Bancroft Prize for Distinguished Books in American History, 2004
The 2004 Merle Curti Award in intellectual history from the Organization of
American Historians.
The Eugene Genovese Prize for the Best Book in American History from The
Historical Society (co-winner).
The 2002-04 Annibel Jenkins Prize in biography from the Society for
Eighteenth Century Studies.
The 2004 John Pollock Award for Christian Biography.
Christianity Today Book Award for History and Biography, 2004
Grawemeyer Award in Religion, 2005
Principal Courses Taught:
History of American Christianity
American Intellectual and Cultural History
American Colonial History
Nineteenth-Century American History
Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in America
History of Western Civilization
Christian Views of History
Christianity, Learning, and Culture
Secularization and Christianity in America
Jonathan Edwards
American Puritan Thought Through Edwards
American Religious Biography
Religion in the American South
Christianity and Nineteenth Century American Thought
Christianity and Twentieth Century American Thought
Biography as History
Faculty Workshops Taught:
"Creation Science as an American Cultural Development, June 1-7, 1985, Christian College Coalition.
“American Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism,” Calvin College Summer Seminar, June 28-July 16, 1999.
Council for Christian Colleges and Universities Faculty Developmental Workshop in History, July 22-29, 2001, Calvin College.
Editorial and Other Academic Service
Associate Editor (Social Sciences), Christian Scholar's Review, 1970-1977.
"Editor" (Senior editorial board), The Reformed Journal, 1980-1990
Editorial Board Perspectives 1990-
Member of Council of American Society of Church History, 1983-86.
Advisory Council, Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, ca. 1989-
Referee, Pew Scholars' Program, ca. 1990- ; Woodrow Wilson Center, ca. 1990-
Academic Publications:
BOOKS:
The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian Experience. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.
A Christian View of History?, editor with Frank Roberts. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975.
Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. (Korean Edition, Word of Life Press, 1997).
Eerdman's Handbook to the History of Christianity in America, co-editor with Mark A. Noll, et al. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983.
Evangelicalism and Modern America, editor. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984.
Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and The New Evangelicalism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1987.
The Search for Christian America, co-author with Mark A. Noll and Nathan O. Hatch. Westchester, Illinois: Crossway Books, 1983. Revised edition. Colorado Springs: Helmers and Howard, 1989.
Religion and American Culture. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.
(Indonesian edition, Agama dan Budaya Amerika, Jakarta: P. T. Pustaka Sina Harapan, 1996.)
Second Edition, Harcourt College Publishers// now Wadsworth Publishers, 2000.
Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1991. (A collection of previously published essays).
The Secularization of the Academy, edited with Bradley J. Longfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
The Soul of the American University. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. (Korean edition, Korean InterVarsity Press, 2000)
Jonathn Edwards: A Life: (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003).
BOOKLETS:
The American Revolution. Christian Perspectives on History Series," National Union of Christian Schools, 1973.
"The Evangelical Task in the Modern University," Theology in the University series, Pittsburgh: the Association of Theological Schools, 1995.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
"A Christian Perspective on the Teaching of History," A Christian View of History? G. Marsden and Frank Roberts, eds. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975.
"From Fundamentalism to Evangelicalism: An Historical Analysis," The Evangelicals, D. Wells and J. Woodbridge, eds. Nashville: Abingdon, 1975.
"America's 'Christian' Origins: Puritan New England as a Case Study," John Calvin: His Influence in the Western World, W. S. Reid, ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982.
"Everyone One's Own Interpreter? The Bible, Science, and Authority in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America," The Bible in America, N. Hatch and M. Noll, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
"The American Revolution: Partisanship, 'Just Wars,' and Crusades," The Wars of America: Christian Views, R. A. Wells, ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982.
"Preachers of Paradox: the Religious New Right in Historical Perspective" Religion and America: Spirituality in a Secular Age, M. Douglas and S. M. Tipton, eds. Boston: Beacon Press, 1983.
"Understanding Fundamentalist Views of Society," Reformed Faith and Politics, R. Stone, ed. Washington: University Press of America, 1983.
"Understanding Fundamentalist Views of Science," Science and Creationism, Ashley Montagu, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
"The Era of Crisis: From Christendom to Pluralism" (six chapters), Eerdmans Handbook to Christianity in America, M. A. Noll, et al., eds. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983.
"The Collapse of American Evangelical Academia," Faith and Rationality, A. Plantinga and N. Wolterstorff, eds. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984. Reprinted in D. G. Hart Reckoning with the Past: Historical Essays on American Evangelicalism from the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1995), 221-266.
"The Evangelical Denomination," Evangelicalism and Modern America, G. Marsden, ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984. Reprinted in Piety and Politics: Evangelicals and Fundamentalists Confront the World, Richard J. Neuhaus and Michael Cromartie, eds., Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1987.
"Common Sense and the Spiritual Vision of History," History and Historical Understanding, C. T. McIntire and R. A. Wells, eds. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984. Also published as "The Spiritual Vision of History," Fides et Historia (Fall 1981).
"Are Secularists the Threat? Is Religion the Solution?" Unsecular America, R. J. Neuhaus, ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986. Also published in This World XI (Spring/Summer 1985) as "Secularism and the Public Square." Reprinted in The Best of This World, Michael A. Scully, ed. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986.
"Why No Major Evangelical University? The Loss and Recovery of Evangelical Advanced Scholarship," Making Higher Education Christian: The History and Mission of Evangelical Colleges in America, Joel A. Carpenter and Kenneth W. Shipps, eds. Grand Rapids: Christian University Press, 1987.
"A Case of the Excluded Middle: Creation vs. Evolution in America," Uncivil Religion: Interreligious Hostility in America, Robert W. Bellah and Frederick E. Greesnpahn, eds. New York: Crossroad, 1987. (Expansion of article from Nature, listed below.)
"Introduction," The Fundamentals (1910-1915) republished 1988 in Garland Publishing series, Fundamentalism in American Religion, 1880-1950, Joel A. Carpenter, ed. (New York).
"Unity and Diversity in the Evangelical Resurgence," Altered Landscapes: Christianity in America, 1935-1985, David W. Lotz, Donald W. Shriver, Jr., and John F. Wilson, eds. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1989.
"Evangelicals and the Scientific Culture: an overview," Religion and Twentieth-Century American Intellectual Life, Michael J. Lacey, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University PressˇXWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1989.
"Religion and Politics in America: In Search of a Consensus, Religion and American Politics, Mark Noll, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
"Defining American Fundamentalism," The Fundamentalist Phenomenon, Norman J. Cohen, ed. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1990.
"Fundamentalism and American Evangelicalism," The Variety of American Evangelicalism, Donald W. Dayton and Robert K. Johnston, eds. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1991).
"The Soul of the American University," in The Secularization of the Academy edited with Bradley J. Longfield (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
"What Can Catholic Universities Learn from Protestant Examples?" in The Challenge and Promise of a Catholic University Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., ed. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994).
"By Primitivism Possessed: How Useful Is the Concept, "Primitivism," For Understanding American Fundamentalism," in The Primitive Church in the Modern World (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995).
"Contemporary American Evangelicalism," in David S. Dockery, ed. Southern Baptists and Amer ican Evangelicals: The Conversation Continues (Nashville,: Boardman and Holman, 1993), 27-39.
"Theology and the University: Newman's Ideas and Current Realities," in John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University Frank M. Turner, ed. (Rethinking the Western Tradition series) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).
"Christian Advocacy and the Rules of the Academic Game," in Religious Advocacy and American History, Bruce Kuklick and D. G. Hart, eds. (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1997).
"What Difference Might Christian Perspectives Make?" History and the Christian Historian, Ronald A. Wells, ed., (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998), 11-22.
"Newman, Theology and the Contemporary University," in Rethinking the Future of the University, David Lyle Jeffrey and Dominic Manganiello, eds., Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1998, 29-38.
“Matteo Ricci and the Prodigal Culture,” A Catholic Modernity: Charles Taylor’s Marianist Award Lecture. James L. Heft, S. M. , ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 83-93.
“Religious Scholars in the Academy: Anachronism or Leaven?” in Paul J. Dovre, ed., The Future of Religious Colleges (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2002).
“Challenging the Presumptions of the Age: the Two Dissertations,” (from a chapter in Jonathan Edwards: A Life), The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition, D. G. Harr, Sean Michael Lucas, and Stephen J. Nichols, eds. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003, 99-113.
“The Quest for the Historical Edwards: The Challenge of Biography,” Jonathan Edwards At Home and Abroad, David W. Kling and Douglas A. Sweeney, eds. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003).
“Jonathan Edwards in the Twenty-First Century,” Jonathan Edwards at 300: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Birth, Harry S. Stout, Kenneth P. Minkema,& Caleb J. d. Maskell, eds. (Lanham: MD: University Press of America, 2005).
ARTICLES:
"Kingdom and Nation: New School Presbyterian Millennialism in the Civil War Era," Journal of Presbyterian History (December, 1968).
"Perry Miller's Rehabilitation of the Puritans: A Critique," Church History (March, 1970), 91-105. Reprinted in D. G. Hart Reckoning with the Past: Historical Essays on American Evangelicalism from the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1995), 23-38.
"The New School Heritage and Presbyterian Fundamentalism," Westminster Theological Journal (May, 1970). Republished in Pressing Toward the Mark: Essays Commemorating the Fifty Years of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Charles G. Dennison and Richard C. Gamble, eds. Philadelphia: The Committee for the Historian of the O.P.C., 1986.
"Defining Fundamentalism," a review article on Ernest Sandeen, The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism 1800-1930. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970). Christian Scholar's Review I:2 (Winter, 1971).
"The Gospel of Wealth, the Social Gospel, and the Salvation of Souls in Nineteenth-Century America," Fides et Historia V:1 (Fall, 1972).
"Fundamentalism as an American Phenomenon: A Comparison with English Evangelicalism," Church History (June, 1977), 215-32. Reprinted in D. G. Hart Reckoning with the Past: Historical Essays on American Evangelicalism from the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1995), 303-321.
"Demythologizing Evangelicalism: A Review of Donald W. Dayton's Discovering an Evangelical Heritage," Christian Scholar's Review VII: 2,3 (1977).
"J. Gresham Machen, History, and Truth," Westminster Theological Journal XLII (Fall, 1979).
"Creation versus Evolution: No Middle Way," Nature 305 (5935, October 13, 1983), pp. 571-574.
"Perspective on the Division of 1937," The Presbyterian Guardian (January to April, 1984). Republished in Pressing Toward the Mark: Essays Commemorating the Fifty Years of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Charles G. Dennison and Richard C. Gamble, eds. Philadelphia: The Committee for the Historian of the O.P.C., 1986.
"Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism," The Encyclopedia of Religion, Mircea Eliade, ed. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
"Fundamentalism," Encyclopedia of Religion in America, Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams, eds. New York: Scribner's, 1988.
"The State of Evangelical Christian Scholarship," Christian Scholars Review XVII:4 (June 1988), 347-360. Reprinted in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith: Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation XL: 3 (September 1988).
"Understanding J. Gresham Machen," Princeton Seminary Bulletin XI:1 New Series (February 1990). (The Frederick Neumann Lecture for 1989 at Princeton Theological Seminary).
"Fundamentalism," Dictionary of Christian Theology, S. B. Ferguson and D. F. Wright, eds. Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press, forthcoming.
"The Decade Ahead in Scholarship," Religion and American Culture III:1 (Winter 1993), 9-15.
"The Ambiguities of Academic Freedom," Church History 62:2 (June 1993), 221-236.
Response to Donald Dayton, "'The Search for the Historical Evangelicalism'": George Marsden's History of Fuller Seminary as a Case Study," symposium, Christian Scholar's Review XXIII:1 (September 1993), 34-40.
"A New Dialogue on Olympus: Science, Religion, and the State,"Books and Culture I: 1 (September/October 1995), 16-18.
“The Way We Were and Are,” Books and Culture, III: 6 (Nov./Dec., 1997), 18-20.
"Rejoinder," Review Symposium: The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship," Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion XXVII:3 (September 1998), 64.
"Liberating Academic Freedom," First Things 88 (December 1998), 11-14.
“Jonathan Edwards, American Augustine,” Books and Culture, V: 6 (November/December 1999). 10-12.
“Response to McKenzie, Fides et Historia XXXII:2 Summer/Fall 2000, 16-18.
“The Incoherent University,” Hedgehog Review II:3 (Fall 2000), 92-105.
“The Rise and Decline of the Modern Liberal Arts Ideal in the U. S. A,” in A Conversation on the Liberal Arts. Santa Barbara, CA: Institute for the Liberal Arts, Westmont College, 2001, 3-8.
“Reformed Strategies in Christian Scholarship: A Response to Robert Sweetman,” Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought 16:7 (August/September), 2001, 20-23.
“Jonathan Edwards: The Missionary,” Journal of Presbyterian History 81:1 (Spring 2003), 5-17.
“Can Jonathan Edwards (and his Heirs) be Integrated into the American Historical Narrative,” Historically Speaking V:6 (July/ August) 2004, 13-15 and “Response to McClay and Kuklick, 19-20.
BOOK REVIEWS IN:
The American Historical Review (5)
The Banner
Banner of Truth
Calvin Theological Journal
Calvinist Contact
The Catholic Historical Review (2)
Christian Century (2)
Christian Educator's Journal
Christianity Today (4)
Christian Scholar's Review (3)
Church History (3)
Civil War History
Eternity (3)
Fides and History (2)
The Historian (2)
Journal of American History (2)
Journal of Church and State
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Nature (4)
Perspectives
Reformed Journal (2)
Reviews in American History
Theological Students' Fellowship Bulletin
Theology Today (3)
Trinity Theological Journal
Westminster Theological Journal (2)
Also many lectures, conference papers and commentaries, editorials, published interviews, and semi-popular articles.
Other items of possible interest:
Testified as expert witness against Arkansas "Creation-Science" law, Maclean vs. Arkansas, December 1981
Op-ed pieces
"Religious Professors are the Last Taboo," Wall Street Journal , December 22, 1993
"Church, State and Campus," New York Times , April 26, 1994