''The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind'' is a 1994 book by

evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide Interdenominationalism, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being "bor ...

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scholar

Mark A. Noll Mark Allan Noll (born 1946) is an American historian specializing in the history of Christianity in the United States. He holds the position of Research Professor of History at Regent College, having previously been Francis A. McAnaney Professor o ...

, who is currently Francis A. McAnaney Professor of

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at the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main campu ...

. As a critique of the waning influence of intellectual pursuits within the American evangelical community, the book is both a scholarly analysis of evangelical

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and "an epistle from a wounded lover" by an intellectual who feels betrayed by evangelical Christianity's neglect of "sober analysis of nature, human society, and the arts".Noll, Mark A. (1994). ''Scandal of the Evangelical Mind''. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans. . ''Scandal'' was named "Book of the Year" by ''

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 ...

'', the popular

neo-evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual exper ...

Christian magazine.Crosby, Cindy. (2002, November 11)
Go to the head of the class: Four scholars who have crossed over talk about their work.
''Publishers Weekly''. Retrieved 2015-04-10. In 2004, ten years after its initial publication, ''Christianity Today'' claimed that the book had "arguably shaped the evangelical world (or at least its institutions) more than any other book published in the last decade".Olsen, Ted. (2004, October)

''Christianity Today''. Retrieved 2007-10-20.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Scandal of the Evangelical Mind Evangelical Christian literature Books about Christianity 1994 non-fiction books