Mark A. Noll
Autore di Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
Sull'Autore
Mark A. Noll is the Francis A. McAnancy Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame. His many other books include A History of Christianity on the Untied States and Canada. The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind, and America's God: From mostra altro Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. mostra meno
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Opere di Mark A. Noll
The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys (History of Evangelicalism) (2003) 578 copie
Is the Reformation Over?: An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism (2005) 297 copie
The Princeton Theology 1812-1921 : Scripture, Science, and Theological Method from Archibald Alexander to Benjamin… (1983) 150 copie
Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology (2004) — A cura di; Collaboratore — 100 copie
From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian's Discovery of the Global Christian Story (Turning South: Christian… (2014) 79 copie
Christian Faith and Practice in the Modern World: Theology from an Evangelical Point of View (1988) 54 copie
Evangelicalism: Comparative Studies of Popular Protestantism in North America, The British Isles, and Beyond, 1700-1990 (1994) 53 copie
Where Shall My Wond'ring Soul Begin? : The Landscape of Evangelical Piety and Thought (2000) 49 copie
Princeton and the Republic, 1768-1822: The Search for a Christian Enlightenment in the Era of Samuel Stanhope Smith (1989) 23 copie
Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism (Religion &… (2004) 19 copie
C. S. Lewis in America: Readings and Reception, 1935–1947 (Hansen Lectureship Series) (2023) 4 copie
One Cup-Many Interpretations 1 copia
When God and Science Meet 1 copia
Mehr als Schein 1 copia
How We Remember Revivals 1 copia
At the End of a Straight Road 1 copia
Father of Modern Evangelicals? 1 copia
The history of doctrine as a problem of history : England, Scotland, and America, 1688-1860. 1 copia
Evangelical Theology Today 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World (2007) — Collaboratore — 125 copie
A Documentary History of Religion in America since 1877 (2003) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 99 copie
Must Christianity Be Violent?: Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology (2003) — Collaboratore — 82 copie
The Unfettered Word: Southern Baptists Confront the Authority-Inerrancy Question (1987) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 50 copie
Christianity Reborn: The Global Expansion of Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century (Studies in the History of… (2004) — Collaboratore — 35 copie
Religion and Public Life in the Midwest: Americas Common Denominator? (Religion By Region) (2004) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
Making Higher Education Christian: The History and Mission of Evangelical Colleges in America (1987) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
History and Women, Culture and Faith, Volume 4: Selected Writings of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: Explorations and… (2012) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Noll, Mark Allan
- Altri nomi
- 樂馬可
- Data di nascita
- 1946-07-18
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- South Bend, Indiana, USA
Wheaton, Illinois, USA - Istruzione
- Wheaton College (BA | 1968 | English)
University of Iowa (MA | 1970 | English)
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (MA | 1972 | Church History and Theology)
Vanderbilt University (MA | 1974 | PhD | 1975 | History of Christianity) - Attività lavorative
- Professor of History
Professor of Christian Thought (Wheaton) - Organizzazioni
- Wheaton College
University of Notre Dame
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Society of Historians
Christian Reformed Church
Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (mostra tutto 7)
Regent College, Illinois - Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Humanities Medal (2006)
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Liste
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 66
- Opere correlate
- 18
- Utenti
- 9,280
- Popolarità
- #2,598
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 42
- ISBN
- 155
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 13
Even before the widespread interest in C.S. Lewis due to the Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis was being read in both religious and secular circles in the United States from the mid-1930’s and through the 1940’s. In this latest in the Hansen Lectureship Series at the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, American historian Mark A. Noll offers three lectures that analyzed the critical reception and growing interest in Lewis’s works of scholarship, fiction, and theology. Successively, he explores the reception Lewis received among Catholics, in the secular and mainstream media, and among both mainline Protestants and evangelicals, who were late but eventually enthusiastic adopters.
It came as a delightful surprise that Catholics in the U.S. were among his earliest and most appreciative readers. In part, Noll believes that Lewis was a fresh, yet for the most part, orthodox voice that offered a friendly path out of a certain stagnant isolation, reflecting the undercurrent of change developing in the church. Responses ranged from the early and effusive praise of The Pilgrim’s Regress by Fr. Conway, CSP in Catholic World to Philip Donnelly’s criticism of Lewis’s account of “adoptive sonship” in Beyond Personality (later part of Mere Christianity). Other critics had concerns about his doctrine of the church and his ideas about natural law put forth in The Abolition of Man. The high watermark of criticism came from Charles Brady of Canisius College, who read everything Lewis wrote, understood him as well as anyone in this era, and wrote two glowing essays for America that are reprinted at the end of this work.
With regard to secular critics, Noll considers in succession Lewis’s scholarly and imaginative works, and finally his works of Christian exposition. Lewis drew general praise for both The Allegory of Love and for his Preface to Paradise Lost. A number affirmed his argument against E. M. W. Tillyard in The Personal Heresy that in criticism of a poet’s work, the focus should be on the subject matter of the poem and not the poet. Regarding the imaginative works, Noll describes the public as responding “ecstatically.” Noll highlight’s W.H. Auden’s review of The Great Divorce in The Saturday Review combining general praise with fine-grained critique. The widest range of critical opinion was reserved for his works of Christian exposition, from the long-searching response of Charles Hartshorne to a review in the New York Herald Tribune from a young Beloit College professor, Chad Walsh, who would quickly become know as a leading exponent of his work.
Apart from a patronizing review in The Christian Century, Protestants joined their secular counterparts in their warm reception of Lewis. Substantial interest among evangelicals in Lewis first came from conservative Presbyterians in the Westminster seminary circle as well as the first substantive criticism, particularly from a young Edmund Clowney. Wheaton’s Clyde Kilby represented a much more positive response to Lewis as did Wheaton student Elizabeth Howard (Eliot). Kilby’s work led to the donation of Lewis’s letters to Wheaton, forming the core of what would become the Wade Center collection. InterVarsity’s His Magazine also contributed to the growing awareness of Lewis in evangelical circles when it published a lengthy excerpt from The Case For Christianity.
Noll concludes the work in considering Lewis in today’s much more fragmented setting and what might be learned from Lewis’s greater concern for the state of his soul as a writer than the success of his work. The work also includes responses to each lecture. I found most interesting in these Kirk Farney’s discussion of two American contemporaries of Lewis who were also intelligent spokespersons for Christianity: Walter A. Maier of The Lutheran Hour and Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of The Catholic Hour. and the wide interest from people outside the church they enjoyed, as did Lewis. I can’t help wonder if there remains a space for such folk today. I’m thinking for example of the broad impact of the late Timothy Keller and the younger voices like Esau McCaulley and writers like Tish Harrison Warren.
Noll offers an excellent resource (aided by his wife) chronicling the early reviews of Lewis’s work, which I’ve only highlighted here. I’m struck that Catholics were early adopters and evangelicals relative latecomers. I’m impressed with the theological and scholarly sophistication of the writers and the elegant style of reviewers like Brady. How different things are in the BookTok era! This is a great resource for Lewis scholars and fans and a marvelous addition to the Hansen Lectureship series on the seven authors in the Wade Collection.
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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher for review.… (altro)