Harry S. Stout is an American historian of religion, who is currently the Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity at

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. He is the editor of the 27 volume series ''The Works of Jonathan Edwards'' and the co-editor with Jon Butler of the 17-volume ''Religion and American Life'' series, which is aimed at high school students. He is the recipient of a

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Research Fellowship and a

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. Stout received a B.A. from

Calvin College Calvin University, formerly Calvin College, is a private Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1876, Calvin University is an educational institution of the Christian Reformed Church and stands in the Reformed (Calvinist) ...

, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from

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."Harry S. Stout"

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Works

Author

*(1986) ''The New England Soul, Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England''. New York: Oxford University Press. **finalist: Pulitzer Prize for History *(1991) ''The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism''. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans. **Critic’s Award for History 1991 **nomination:

Pulitzer Prize for Biography The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir by an American author o ...

*(2006) ''Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War''. New York: Viking Books. finalist: **winner: ''

Christianity Today ''Christianity Today'' is an evangelical Christian media magazine founded in 1956 by Billy Graham. It is published by Christianity Today International based in Carol Stream, Illinois. ''The Washington Post'' calls ''Christianity Today'' "evange ...

'' Best History Book 2007 **winner: Philip Schaff Prize for Best Book on the History of Christianity 2006-7 **winner: New England Historical Association Best Book Award 2007 **finalist:

Lincoln Prize The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, founded by the late Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman in partnership with Gabor Boritt, Director Emeritus of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for America ...

*(2017) ''American Aristocrats: A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism''. New York: Basic Books.

Collaborations

*with Deborah H. Deford (1987) ''An Enemy Among Them''. Boston: Clarion Books.

Contributor

*et al. (2005) ''Jonathan Edwards at 300: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Birth''. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.

Editor

*(2017) ''The Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia'' (27 volumes). Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans

Co-editor

*co-editor with Nathan O. Hatch (1988) ''Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience''. New York: Oxford University Press. *co-editor with Daniel G. Reid, Robert D. Linder, and Bruce L. Shelley (1990) ''Dictionary of Christianity in America''. Westmont, Illinois: Intervarsity Press. **''

'' Book of the Year Award 1990 *co-editor with Barbara B. Oberg (1993) ''Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and The Representation of American Culture''. New York: Oxford University Press. *co-editor with John F. Smith and Kenneth P. Minkema (1995) ''A Jonathan Edwards Reader''. New Haven: Yale University Press. *co-editor with D. G. Hart (1997) ''New Directions in American Religious History''. New York: Oxford University Press. *co-editor with Jon Butler (1997) ''Religion in American History: A Reader''. New York: Oxford University Press. *co-editor with Randall M. Miller and Charles Reagan Wilson (1998) ''Religion and the American Civil War''. New York: Oxford University Press.

References

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