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faith and scholarship

Don’t Forget Your Conference on Faith and History Proposal

John Fea   |  March 5, 2018

I am serving as the program chair for next Fall’s CFH meeting in Grand Rapids.  I have posted the call for papers below.  The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2018.  Please consider submitting a paper or panel proposal!  Whether...

One Month Left: Don’t Forget to Submit Your Proposal to the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History

John Fea   |  February 15, 2018

I am serving as the program chair for next Fall’s CFH meeting in Grand Rapids.  I have posted the call for papers below.  The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2018.  Please consider submitting a paper or panel proposal!  Whether...

The State of the Evangelical Mind Conference

John Fea   |  September 18, 2017

Later this week I am heading to Indianapolis to participate in the “State of the Evangelical Mind” conference.  This two-day conference will explore how the evangelical mind is faring since Mark Noll wrote his seminar The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind...

The Conference on Faith and History Comes to Grand Rapids in October 2018

John Fea   |  June 24, 2017

The Fall 2018 meeting of the Conference on Faith and History (CFH) will be meeting at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan from October 4-6, 2018.  This year’s conference theme is “History and the Search for Meaning: The CFH at...

Robert George: A Christian Scholar on the Spiritual Disciplines

John Fea   |  July 13, 2016

As many of you know, I am very interested in the ways that my Christian faith informs what I do as a scholar, historian, and teacher.  Back in 2011 I joined my friends Jay Green and Eric Miller in editing Confessing...

"The Illusion of Respectability": A Response

John Fea   |  November 16, 2015 Leave a Comment

The evangelical thinking class has been abuzz this weekend talking about Gettysburg College historian Allen Guelzo‘s essay at Christianity Today titled “The Illusion of Respectability.”  As many of you know, Guelzo is one of the finest historians of Abraham Lincoln and […]

Roger Lundin, 1949-2015

John Fea   |  November 13, 2015

I never met Roger Lundin, but I know dozens of people who have been influenced by his life and his work as a Christian scholar.  My prayers go out today to his family–especially his son Matthew Lundin, a history professor...

Messiah College at the Conference on Faith and History

John Fea   |  September 30, 2014

Crossposted from History on the Bridge A group of Messiah College historians traveled to Malibu, California this weekend to participate in the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History (CFH).  This year’s host was beautiful Pepperdine University, a...

Call for Papers for Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History: “Christian Historians and Their Publics”

John Fea   |  October 25, 2013

I am really looking forward to this conference. When it comes to putting together conferences for Christian historians there is no one better than Jay Green. Here are the details: CHRISTIAN HISTORIANS & THEIR PUBLICSThe 29th Biennial Meeting of the Conference on...

Mark Noll Wins Lilly Fellows Book Award

John Fea   |  October 19, 2013

Mark Noll of the University of Notre Dame has won this year’s Lilly Fellows Program Book Award for Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind.  Here is a description of the award: The biennial Lilly Fellows Program Book Award...

Noll: The Evangelical Imperative for Evangelical Intellectual Life

John Fea   |  May 11, 2013

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Eric Miller Reviews James Bratt’s Biography of Abraham Kuyper

John Fea   |  April 9, 2013

Abraham Kuyper is famous for saying, “There is not a single square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry: Mine!”  Today, those who follow his transforming vision...

Jay Green on *Confessing History*

John Fea   |  March 27, 2013 Leave a Comment

My co-editor Jay Green has jumped into the conversation about our Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation that was prompted by Mark Edwards’s post at Religion in American History, “Is There a Christian Approach to History?”  […]

#confessinghistorians

John Fea   |  March 26, 2013 Leave a Comment

It looks like our Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation is making some waves.  There is now a Twitter hashtag called #confessinghistorians. If you want to see some graduate students (and a few others who seem […]

Is the Conference on Faith and History the “Intellectual Arm of the Religious Right?”

John Fea   |  March 25, 2013 Leave a Comment

I (and I think I speak for my co-editors, Jay Green and Eric Miller) am flattered by the attention our Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation is receiving over at Religion in American History blog.  Here […]

Ralph Keen: Catholic Studies at a Secular Campus

John Fea   |  March 19, 2013 Leave a Comment

Ralph Keen As some the readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home already know, the University of Illinois at Chicago has a thriving Catholic Studies Program. Kevin Schultz, author of Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America […]

The Lilly Fellows Book Award

John Fea   |  January 24, 2013

The biennial Lilly Fellows Program Book Award honors an original and imaginative work from any academic discipline that best exemplifies the central ideas and principles animating the Lilly Fellows Program.  These include faith and learning in the Christian intellectual tradition,...

The New “Fides et Historia” is Here

John Fea   |  November 12, 2012 Leave a Comment

It included articles by Catharine Albanese, Wallace Best, Mark Noll, Richard Bushman, Will Katerberg, Leslie Woodcock Tentler, and Dana Robert.  Also check out Tal Howard’s review of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation. Not a bad lineup! Randall Stephens announces the […]

George McGovern: Christian Historian

John Fea   |  October 23, 2012

Like Jonathan Rees, one of my first political memories centers around McGovern’s 1972 bid for the presidency.  My first or second grade teacher had mentioned that Richard Nixon had failed to end the war in Vietnam.  As a six-year-old I...

This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “The Historian and Imago Dei”

John Fea   |  October 17, 2012 Leave a Comment

Two weeks ago I wrote in this space about the relationship between the historians work and the reality of human sin.  This week, I want to focus on the historian’s work as it relates to the Judeo-Christian belief in Imago […]

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