Mark A. Noll

Dr. Mark Noll is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He was named a Senior Fellow of The Trinity Forum in 2006.

Before joining the faculty at Notre Dame, Dr. Noll held the McManis Chair of Christian Thought at Wheaton College, where he taught for nearly thirty years. He has also held visiting professorships at Juniata College, Harvard Divinity School, the University of Chicago Divinity School, Regent College, and Westminster Theological Seminary. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded him two year-long fellowships and a 2006 National Humanities Medal. In 2004 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in American History and Ethics at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress in 2004–05.

The bulk of Dr. Noll’s research and writing has dealt with subjects involving the history of Christianity and the intellectual or political history of the United States and Canada. He has written more than two dozen books, notably A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (1992), American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction (2000), and The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994).

Other recent books are The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (University of North Carolina Press, 2006); The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys (InterVarsity Press, 2004); America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 2002); and Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism (co-author) (Baker, 2005).

He is currently working on a short book on race, religion, and American politics and a more extensive study of the Bible in North American public life.

Noll helped to found the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicalism at Wheaton and is active in dialogue between Catholics and Protestants. In 2005 he was listed in Time Magazine among the twenty-five most influential evangelicals in America.

Dr. Noll did undergraduate work at Wheaton College and has masters degrees from the University of Iowa and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He did his doctoral work in the history of Christianity at Vanderbilt University. He and his wife Maggie have three children.

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