Mark Allan Noll (born 1946) is an American

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specializing in the history of Christianity in the United States. He holds the position of Research Professor of History at

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, having previously been Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the

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. Noll is a Reformed

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and in 2005 was named by ''

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'' magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential evangelicals in America.

Biography

Born on July 18, 1946, Noll is a graduate of

Wheaton College, Illinois Wheaton College is a Private college, private Evangelical, Evangelical Christian Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois. It was founded by evangelical abolitionists in 1860. Wheaton College was a ...

(B.A, English), the

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(M.A., English),

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) is an academic divinity school founded in 1897 and located in the northern Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois. It is part of and located on the main campus of Trinity International University. It� ...

(M.A., Church History and Theology), and

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(Ph.D, History of Christianity). Before coming to Notre Dame, he was on the faculty at

for twenty-seven years, where he taught in the departments of history and theology as McManis Professor of Christian Thought. While at Wheaton, Noll also co-founded (with Nathan Hatch) and directed the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (ISAE), which ran from 1982 until 2014. Noll is a prolific author and many of his books have earned considerable acclaim within the academic community. In particular, ''

The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind ''The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind'' is a 1994 book by evangelical Christian scholar Mark A. Noll, who is currently Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. As a critique of the waning influence of intellectual ...

'', a book about anti-intellectual tendencies within the American evangelical movement, was widely covered in both religious and secular publications. He was awarded a

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in the Oval Office by President George W. Bush in 2006. Noll, along with other historians such as George Marsden, Nathan O. Hatch, and David Bebbington, has greatly contributed to the world's understanding of evangelical convictions and attitudes, past and present. He has caused many scholars and lay people to realize more deeply the complications inherent in the question, "Is America a Christian nation?" In 1994, he co-signed

Evangelicals and Catholics Together ''Evangelicals and Catholics Together'' is a 1994 ecumenical document signed by leading Evangelical and Catholic scholars in the United States. The co-signers of the document were Charles Colson and Richard John Neuhaus, representing each side o ...

, an ecumenical document that expressed the need for greater cooperation between evangelical and Catholic leaders in the United States. From 2006 to 2016, Noll was a faculty member in Department of History at Notre Dame. He replaced the retiring George Marsden as Notre Dame's Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History. Noll stated that the move to Notre Dame allowed him to concentrate on fewer subjects than his duties at Wheaton had allowed.University of Notre Dame, Faculty Profile for Mark A. Noll

Works

Books

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Articles

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References

External links

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