George Marsden

George M. Marsden ( born February 25, 1939) is an American historian and theologian.

Life

Marsden grew up in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He attended Haverford College, where he graduated with a BA from, after which he studied at Westminster Theological Seminary, where he BD the obtained. A study at Yale University, where he graduated with a Ph.D. from. After his studies he worked for more than two decades teacher at Calvin College, after which he moved to the Duke Divinity School in 1986. In 1992, he accepted a professorship of history at the University of Notre Dame. His work entitled Fundamentalism and American Culture, published in 1980, is considered groundbreaking in the academic study of Christian fundamentalism. Marsden examined the interrelationship between Christianity, American Culture, Higher Education and evangelicalism. A research over a period of five years, funded by the J. Howard Pew Freedom Trust, eventually led to the release of The Soul of the American University. In the work, he assumes that people of faith are no longer welcome at universities. Marsden himself and his colleagues have held prominent positions at the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals. The mid-1990s he devoted his research Jonathan Edwards, about which he published a highly acclaimed biography.

Works

• The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian Experience, 1970
• Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth - Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925, 1987
• The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established nonbelief, 1994
• The Outrageous Idea of ​​Christian Scholarship, 1997
• Jonathan Edwards: A Life, 2003