Thomas S. Kidd (born 1971) is an American historian, currently a

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Baylor University Baylor University is a private Baptist Christian research university in Waco, Texas. Baylor was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas. Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and one of the fir ...

and

Distinguished professor Distinguished Professor is an academic title given to some top tenured professors in a university, school, or department. Some distinguished professors may have endowed chairs. In the United States Often specific to one institution, titles such ...

of Church History at

Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MBTS) is a Baptist theological institute in Kansas City, Missouri. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary also houses an undergraduate college, Spur ...

. Before becoming a professor, Kidd studied at the

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. He is a notable historian and author of such books as ''George Whitefield'', a biography on the 18th-century

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preacher. Kidd credits

George Whitefield George Whitefield (; 30 September 1770), also known as George Whitfield, was an Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Born in Gloucester, he matriculated at Pembroke College at th ...

as being "profoundly influential on the American nation's founding."

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1971 births 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Baylor University faculty Clemson University alumni Historians of Christianity Historians of the United States Living people University of Notre Dame alumni American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub