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Darryl Hart

Are evangelical scholars prospering from “the scandal of the evangelical mind”?

John Fea   |  June 10, 2022

Some of you on Twitter may know Darryl Hart as the historian who regularly trolls this blog under the handle “Old Life.” In a piece published yesterday at The Wall Street Journal, Hart wonders if evangelical historians are trying to...

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Darryl Hart Reviews *Believe Me*

John Fea   |  February 4, 2020

Darryl Hart reviews Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump alongside Peter Wehner’s The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump.  I must have missed this review when it appeared in the Winter 2019 edition of the...

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Darryl Hart on Boston’s Park Street Church, Evangelicalism, and the “Ghost of Harold John Ockenga”

John Fea   |  January 10, 2020

Harold John Ockenga was the pastor of Boston’s Park Street Church from 1936 to 1969. He was one of the early leaders of the neo-evangelical movement in the 1940s and 1950s.  We normally associated the rise of neo-evangelicalism with people...

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Some More Thoughts on the Populist Critique of “Elite Evangelicals”

John Fea   |  January 1, 2020

For most evangelical Christians, the message of the Gospel transcends the identity categories we place on human beings.  All men and women are sinners in need of redemption.  Citizenship in the Kingdom of God, made possible by Jesus’s death and...

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Darryl Hart Weighs-In on the Thomas Kidd-Jonathan Merritt Debate

John Fea   |  December 18, 2018

In case you haven’t heard, Baylor University historian Thomas Kidd and journalist Jonathan Merritt had a debate.  Read all about it here.  And now Darryl Hart has commented on it. As is usually the case, Darryl manages to throw everyone...

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I Found Common Ground with Darryl Hart for the Second Time This Year!!!

John Fea   |  November 30, 2018

This is the second time this year that Darryl Hart has agreed with something I wrote.  :-)(The first time was here).  Here is a taste of his recent post at Old Life: Glad to see John Fea stand up for evangelism (in...

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WHAT????? Darryl Hart Actually Likes Something I Wrote

John Fea   |  October 29, 2018

Over the last couple of years I have been a regular target of Darryl Hart, professor of history at Hillsdale College in Michigan.  Read all his posts about my work here. So needless to say,  I was surprised to see...

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The American Bible Society and the Search for a Usable Past

John Fea   |  June 7, 2018

Darryl Hart has criticized my recent comments about the American Bible Society.  If you have not read my recent comments you can get up to speed here. First, let me say that I don’t “object” to the ABS statement.  As...

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Hart: “If Not for Politics, Would Anyone Care about Evangelicalism?”

John Fea   |  February 3, 2018

Great question.  As Darryl Hart know better than most, “evangelicalism” did not really become a big thing in post-war America until it graced the cover of Newsweek in 1976.  Granted, evangelicalism had been around for a long time, but its re-emergence...

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Call Me a Christian Nationalist: A Response to Darryl Hart

John Fea   |  August 15, 2017

Over at his blog Old Life: Reformed Faith and Practice, Hillsdale College historian Darryl Hart is once again criticizing me.  Several folks who read this blog and Hart’s blog asked me if I would respond to his most recent post.  I...

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Would Historians Care About Evangelicals if They Did Not Become Such a Political Force?

John Fea   |  April 26, 2017

Darryl Hart asks a version of this question at his Patheos blog “Putting the PROTEST in Protestant.”  (How many blogs does this guy have?  Is this the same D.G. Hart who once told me in a hand-written letter that he refused to use e-mail?)....

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Did Fake News Come From Liberty or Harvard?

John Fea   |  April 25, 2017

David Brooks’s recent column defending Western Civilization is bound to get the descendants of the New Left and the defenders of multiculturalism very angry.  But I think he ends the column with a very fair point: These days, the whole idea...

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Quote of the Day

John Fea   |  April 18, 2017

We need a new name for Christianity in the United States. The contributors to this podcast at Christianity Today are still lamenting the turnout of white evangelicals for Donald Trump and so one of them called for more attention to...

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No Empathy for Trump?

John Fea   |  August 25, 2016

Darryl Hart of Hillsdale College has been on my case ever since I announced that I signed Historians Against Trump. First, let me say that I have great respect for Darryl as a scholar and a historian and I have...

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The Bible Cause in The Wall Street Journal

John Fea   |  August 19, 2016

Check out Darryl G. Hart’s review of The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society in today’s Wall Street Journal! Here is a taste: For the past 50 years or so, the Bible—the collection of sacred Jewish and Christian texts—has taken...

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Are Missouri Synod Lutherans "Evangelical?"

John Fea   |  July 18, 2016

Some of you may remember my post on Saturday in which I presented the various “evangelical” voting options for the presidential election in November. Over at Old Life blog, Darryl Hart, a historian at Hillsdale College, apparently took umbrage with...

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*The Secularization of the Academy* Turns 25

John Fea   |  October 23, 2015

It all started in 1990 with a conference at Duke on secularization and the academy.  (At the time I was a first year divinity school student.  The internet did not exist yet and I had no idea that this conference...

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Ben Sasse Is Not a “Christian Crusader”

John Fea   |  November 7, 2014

Ben Sasse:  Nebraska’s new senator Paul Putz, a Ph.D student in history at Baylor University, has written a fascinating post at the blog of the American Society of Church History on the religious beliefs of Nebraska’s new senator, Ben Sasse....

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The Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals Closes Its Doors

John Fea   |  November 4, 2014

In case you have not heard, the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (ISAE) at Wheaton College (IL) will be shutting down operations at the end of the year.   Last week Wheaton held a symposium to celebrate the work...

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A Notorious Critic of Evangelicalism Takes My Quiz on Evangelicalism

John Fea   |  October 8, 2014 Leave a Comment

Darryl Hart Those of you who read the The Way of Improvement Leads Home are familiar with the thirteen question quiz on evangelicalism that I posted yesterday.  I have been surprised with how much attention this quiz is receiving, mostly […]

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