Mark Noll

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Mark A. Noll (born 1946), (Ph.D. Vanderbilt University), Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, is the prolific progressive evangelical author of A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (Eerdmans, 1992) and America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 2002) and co-author of Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism (Baker Books, 2005). His book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans, 1994) earned him a cover story in the popular periodical, Atlantic Monthly.

Mark Noll, along with other historians such as George Marsden, Nathan 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 re-evaluate the notion that a "Christian America" exists or ever did exist.(1)

He is a graduate of Wheaton College, Illinois (B.A), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A), and Vanderbilt University (Ph.D). For 27 years has was on the faculty at Wheaton College, Illinois.

In 2005, he was named by Time Magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential evangelicals in America.

In February 2006 it was reported that he has accepted a position at Notre Dame. He will eventually replace Dr. George Marsden, Notre Dame's Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, who is nearing retirement.[1]

1. See Mark Noll et al., The Search for Christian America (Helmers & Howard Publishing, 1989).