Mark A Noll

Biographic Data

ID211286
NAMEMark A Noll
GIVEN NAMESMark A
FAMILY NAMENoll
SIGNATURENOLL M A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Notre Dame
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS77
TOTAL CITATIONS39
AUTHOR COUNT76
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Christianity in North America

    Open AccessMark A Noll, Mark NollARTICLEInternational Bulletin of Mission…2024

    “Diversity” predominates as the main message of the book Christianity in North America, the seventh in a series from Edinburgh University Press on Christianity in the world’s regions. It includes extensive demographic data from the World Christian Database (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary), twenty-nine chapters on US regions, ethnic groups, ecclesiastical traditions, and specific themes (such as Faith and Culture, Theology, Immigration and Xe…

  • On Pendulum Effects in American Historical Memory

    Mark A Noll, Mark NollARTICLEThe Review of Faith & International…2021References: 4

    American history has often witnessed a “Pendulum Effect” in consideration of the nation’s own past. That is, attitudes swing from one interpretive pole to the opposite, in this case for interpretations of the Plymouth Pilgrims, the Mayflower, and “the first Thanksgiving.” The articles in this special issue try to avoid those extremes, but while still treating fairly and with sharp moral scruples, the events of four centuries ago and their contemp…

  • Four Steeples over the City Streets: Religion and Society in New York’s Early Republic Congregations

    Mark A Noll, Mark NollARTICLEAmerican Nineteenth Century History2016

    Kyle Bulthuis’s thoroughly researched and carefully argued book on four New York City churches succeeds admirably in showing how the congregations’ “respective religious traditions shaped the way t

  • In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492–1783

    Mark A Noll, Mark NollBOOKIn the Beginning Was the Word2015

    It is no exaggeration to claim that the Bible has been — and by far — the single most widely read text, distributed object, and referenced or cited book in all of American history. For countless Americans, Scripture has opened a doorway to the personal experience of God. The Bible has also functioned as a guide to life, sometimes with liberating or comic effects and sometimes with oppressive or tragic results. This book provides a survey of the r…

  • In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783

    Mark A NollBOOKIn the Beginning Was the Word2015

    In the beginning of American history, the Word was in Spanish, Latin, and native languages like Nahuatal. But while Spanish and Catholic Christianity reached the New World in 1492, it was only with settlements in the seventeenth century that English-language Bibles and Protestant Christendom arrived. The Puritans brought with them intense devotion to Scripture, as well as their ideal of Christendom -- a civilization characterized by a thorough in…

  • Empire, 1689–1763

    Mark A Noll, Mark NollCHAPTERIn the Beginning Was the Word2015

  • Colonial Christendom

    Mark A Noll, Mark NollCHAPTERIn the Beginning Was the Word2015

    This chapter discusses the vision of Puritans for the Americans. The Puritans aspired to complete the work of reformation that had begun in sixteenth-century England, but then stalled under King James I and King Charles I. They aimed to purify self, church, and society according to the will of God as recorded in the Scripture. Although Puritans routinely practiced a level of coercion that modern democratic liberalism instinctively condemned, thei…

  • The Republican Character of Antebellum American Religion

    Open AccessMark A Noll, Mark NollARTICLEChurch History2015

    The young scholars who proposed a dialogue between John Modern and myself, and who then contributed sparkling insights of their own to that dialogue, deserve hearty thanks. They have taken seriously the main arguments, along with many of the details, in Modern's Secularism in Antebellum America and my America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. In so doing, they spotlighted lacunae, advanced new perspectives, and proposed the best ki…

  • Book Debate

    Mark A Noll, Mark Noll et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences and Missions2014

    Derek R. Peterson, Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935–1972. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xx + 344 pp. 344. Maps, Bibliography. Index.The View of Mark A. NollDerek Peterson’s meticulously researched account of intra-African cultural struggle moves its focal point away from what the best historians of modern African Christianity have usually featured in their books. Exemplary works by the li…

  • To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

    Open AccessMark A Noll, Mark NollARTICLETheology Today2012

  • Wee Shall Be as a Citty Upon a Hill: John Winthrop's Non-American Exceptionalism

    Mark A Noll, Mark NollARTICLEThe Review of Faith & International…2012References: 1

    The belief that the United States is uniquely chosen by God to be a beacon of freedom for the whole world forms the core of American exceptionalism. Persistent recent references to John Winthrop's 1630 address in which he quoted the biblical metaphor of a “city upon a hill” suggest a line of continuous development from Winthrop's 17th-century aspirations for Massachusetts to present-day ideals for the United States. But Winthrop's address had ver…

  • Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction

    Mark A Noll, Mark NollBOOKProtestantism2011

    Presents an accessible history of Protestantism from Martin Luther to the present day, focusing on worldwide developments and examining not only European and North American aspects of Protestant journeys, but also the importance of Protestant expansion into the non-Western world.

  • Pain, Passion and Faith: Revisiting the Place of Charles Wesley in Early Methodism. Pietist and Wesleyan Studies 31

    Mark A Noll, Mark NollARTICLEWesley and Methodist Studies2011

    Book Review| January 01 2011 Pain, Passion and Faith: Revisiting the Place of Charles Wesley in Early Methodism. Pietist and Wesleyan Studies 31 Pain, Passion and Faith: Revisiting the Place of Charles Wesley in Early Methodism. Pietist and Wesleyan Studies 31Cruickshank, Joanna Mark A. Noll Mark A. Noll Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Wesley and Methodist Studies (2011) 3: 158–161. https://doi.org/10.2307/42909813 Cite…

  • The Curse of Ham in the Early Modern Era. The Bible and the Justifications for Slavery

    Mark A Noll, Mark NollARTICLEChurch History and Religious…2011

    Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections

  • Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa and Asia

    Open AccessMark A Noll, Mark Noll et al.BOOKclouds of witnesses2011

    In seventeen narratives Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom introduce Christian leaders in Africa and Asia who had tenacious faith in the midst of deprivation, suffering and conflict. Spanning a century, from the 1880s to the 1980s, their stories demonstrate the vitality of the Christian faith in a diversity of contexts

  • William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and the King James Version of the Bible

    Open AccessMark A Noll, Mark NollARTICLETheology2011

    During 1911 three of the United States' leading statesmen (Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan) delivered lengthy speeches to commemorate the tercentenary of the King James Bible. While all three emphasized this Bible's important contribution to American democratic ideals, Bryan also stressed the Bible's role in revealing Jesus Christ as 'Son of God and Saviour of Mankind'. Shades of difference in how these leaders spoke…

  • Forum: American Scriptures

    Open AccessPhilip L Barlow, Paul S Boyer et al.ARTICLEReligion and American Culture A…2011

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  • God and Race in American Politics: A Short History

    Mark A Noll, Mark NollBOOKGod and Race in American Politics2010

  • What is “Evangelical”

    Mark A Noll, Mark Noll et al.BOOKThe Oxford handbook of…2010

    Evangelical theology is a burgeoning field. This volume surveys the state of the discipline on topics of greatest importance to evangelical theology. Each chapter has been written by a theologian or scholar who is widely recognized for his or her published work and is considered a leading thinker on that topic.

  • Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the Present

    Mark Noll, Mark A Noll et al.BOOKReligion and American Politics2007

    How do religion and politics interact in America? How has that relationship changed over time? Why have American religious and political thought sometimes developed along a parallel course while at other times they have moved in opposite directions? These are among the many questions addressed in this volume. Originally published in 1990 as Religion and American Politics: From The Colonial Period to the 1980s, this book offers a survey of the rel…

  • The Civil War as a Theological Crisis

    Jack P Maddex, Mark A Noll et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

    The Civil War was a major turning point in American religious thought, argues Mark A. Noll. Although Christian believers agreed with one another that the Bible was authoritative and that it should be interpreted through commonsense principles, there was rampant disagreement about what Scripture taught about slavery. Furthermore, most Americans continued to believe that God ruled over the affairs of people and nations, but they were radically divi…

  • Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans

    David Stricklin, William T Dargan et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

  • Looking South

    Open AccessMark A Noll, Mark NollARTICLEJournal of Religious History2007

  • Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era. By Paul Harvey

    Mark A Noll, Mark NollARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2007

    Paul Harvey's well-researched book provides a welcome overview of a complex subject that has been as important for national public life as for American religious history. Continuity in the volume is maintained by Harvey's focus on “theological racism,” “racial interchange,” and “Christian interracialism” in the South from the time of the Civil War to the early twenty-first century. At one level, Harvey offers a relatively clear history of causes …

  • The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England. By D. Bruce Hindmarsh

    Mark A Noll, Mark NollARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2007

    This study provides a deeply researched survey of eighteenth-century narratives of evangelical conversions and a provocative argument for what those narratives signified. The author, a professor of spiritual theology at Regent College (Vancouver), earlier published a fine study of John Newton, the ex-slave captain and hymnwriter who also appears briefly in this volume. The book's provenance is England, with a substantial side trip to Scotland and…