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Remembering Donald Dayton

John Fea   |  May 13, 2020

Theologian and church historian Donald W. Dayton has died. While I was a student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School pursuing an M.A. in American church history, I read a lot of Dayton. As a young evangelical, I was passionate about...

Mark Noll on the Definition of Evangelicalism

John Fea   |  April 28, 2020

Over at Religion and Politics, Eric C. Miller talks with historian Mark Noll about the definition of evangelicalism.  Noll is the editor of a recent book on the subject (co-authored with George Marsden and David Bebbington) titled Evangelicals: Who They Have...

The Imaginary Turn in Evangelical Scholarship

John Fea   |  January 5, 2020

Historian David Bebbington Martin Spence is Associate Professor of History at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  He is writing for us this weekend at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City.  Enjoy his latest...

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...

“Can Someone Tell Me Who Was President?”: Thinking Historically About Evangelicalism

John Fea   |  July 14, 2017

Over at The Anxious Bench, historian Tim Gloege (see his visit to the Author’s Corner here) begins his discussion of what he calls the “evangelical paradigm” with a great Mark Noll story: Twenty years ago, I sat in a Wheaton...

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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