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Overview
This book explores the personal backgrounds, historical methodologies, and academic philosophies of George Marsden, Nathan Hatch, and Mark Noll. It addresses the issues raised by the interaction of personal faith and scholarship, and the subsequent effect this has upon the evangelical community at large and the academic mission of institutions that wish to maintain their Christian distinction. The author shows how these scholars founded the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, and she demonstrates the significance of their attempts to open evangelical historical scholarship to a wider audience. Readers will get to know the personalities behind these evangelical scholars and will discover the uniqueness of Marsden, Hatch, and Noll as individuals as well as leaders. This is the first book to approach faith and learning from the point of view of these three men. Full of personal interviews and unpublished materials, The Evangelical Historians will appeal to students and scholars of American Studies, religion, culture, and sociology. It will serve as a useful text for courses in the History of American Christianity, Christianity and Culture, Historiography, Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism, and 18th and 19th-Century American Protestantism. In addition, members of the historical guild interested in religion in America and the role of Christianity will surely want a copy of this rare and thoughtful work. Contents: Preface; A Historian's History; Integrating Faith and Learning; Transgressing Boundaries: Historical Critique and Evangelical Response; The Opening of the Evangelical Mind; Conclusion; Index.
Synopsis
This book explores the personal backgrounds, historical methodologies, and academic philosophies of George Marsden, Nathan Hatch, and Mark Noll. It addresses the issues raised by the interaction of personal faith and scholarship, and the subsequent effect this has upon the evangelical community at large and the academic mission of institutions that wish to maintain their Christian distinction.
Dr. D. W. Bebbrigton - Christian Scholar'S Review
"Burch's intentions are clearly laid out in this well-written book...Maxie Burch has done well in presenting such an interesting book, one that intersects the human and contingent in the three men's lives with their considerable body of work."
Editorials
The Study Group On Christianity and History
...it is the meticulous exacting standards of historians such as Marsden, Hatch, and Noll which have taught my generation to demand so much.Christian Scholar's Review
Burch's intentions are clearly laid out in this well-written book...Maxie Burch has done well in presenting such an interesting book, one that intersects the human and contingent in the three men's lives with their considerable body of work.— Dr. D. W. Bebbrigton, University of Stirling, Scotland
Dr. D. W. Bebbrigton
Burch's intentions are clearly laid out in this well-written book...Maxie Burch has done well in presenting such an interesting book, one that intersects the human and contingent in the three men's lives with their considerable body of work.Christian Scholar'S Review
"Burch's intentions are clearly laid out in this well-written book...Maxie Burch has done well in presenting such an interesting book, one that intersects the human and contingent in the three men's lives with their considerable body of work."— Dr. D. W. Bebbrigton