George Marsden

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George Marsden is an historian who has written extensively on the interaction between Christianity and American culture, particularly on Christianity in American higher education and on American Evangelicalism.

Marsden holds a B.A. from Haverford College (1959), a B.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary (1963), and an M.A. (1960) and Ph.D. (1965) from Yale University. He has taught at Calvin College (1965–1986) and Duke University (1986–1992), and currently he is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has also been visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley and St. Andrews University in Scotland. In response to Marsden's impending retirement, Notre Dame hired Mark Noll to replace him.^[1]

[edit] Selected works

[1980] (2006) Fundamentalism and American Culture, 2nd ed., New York: Oxford University Press.
(2003) Jonathan Edwards: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press.
(1997) The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship. New York: Oxford University Press.
(1994) The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507046-1.
(1991) Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans. (A collection of previously published essays.)