Mark A. Noll
Autor von Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
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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 mehr anzeigen Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. weniger anzeigen
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The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys (History of Evangelicalism) (2003) 578 Exemplare
Is the Reformation Over?: An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism (2005) 297 Exemplare
The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith (2009) 228 Exemplare
Between Faith and Criticism: Evangelicals, Scholarship, and the Bible in America (1986) 175 Exemplare
The Princeton Theology 1812-1921 : Scripture, Science, and Theological Method from Archibald Alexander to Benjamin… (1983) 150 Exemplare
Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology (2004) — Herausgeber; Mitwirkender — 100 Exemplare
From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian's Discovery of the Global Christian Story (Turning South: Christian… (2014) 79 Exemplare
Christian Faith and Practice in the Modern World: Theology from an Evangelical Point of View (1988) 54 Exemplare
Evangelicalism: Comparative Studies of Popular Protestantism in North America, The British Isles, and Beyond, 1700-1990 (1994) 53 Exemplare
Where Shall My Wond'ring Soul Begin? : The Landscape of Evangelical Piety and Thought (2000) 49 Exemplare
Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective (1999) — Herausgeber; Mitwirkender — 25 Exemplare
Princeton and the Republic, 1768-1822: The Search for a Christian Enlightenment in the Era of Samuel Stanhope Smith (1989) 23 Exemplare
Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism (Religion &… (2004) 19 Exemplare
C. S. Lewis in America: Readings and Reception, 1935–1947 (Hansen Lectureship Series) (2023) 4 Exemplare
Providence and the Christian Historian 3 Exemplare
The Christian Life Through Creeds 2 Exemplare
One Cup-Many Interpretations 1 Exemplar
When God and Science Meet 1 Exemplar
Mehr als Schein 1 Exemplar
Misreading the Signs of the Times 1 Exemplar
Midwives of South Africa's Rebirth 1 Exemplar
How We Remember Revivals 1 Exemplar
At the End of a Straight Road 1 Exemplar
Father of Modern Evangelicals? 1 Exemplar
The history of doctrine as a problem of history : England, Scotland, and America, 1688-1860. 1 Exemplar
Evangelical Theology Today 1 Exemplar
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The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World (2007) — Mitwirkender — 125 Exemplare
A Documentary History of Religion in America since 1877 (2003) — Herausgeber, einige Ausgaben — 99 Exemplare
Must Christianity Be Violent?: Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology (2003) — Mitwirkender — 82 Exemplare
The Unfettered Word: Southern Baptists Confront the Authority-Inerrancy Question (1987) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 50 Exemplare
Christianity Reborn: The Global Expansion of Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century (Studies in the History of… (2004) — Mitwirkender — 35 Exemplare
After Jonathan Edwards: The Courses of the New England Theology (2012) — Mitwirkender — 31 Exemplare
Religion and Public Life in the Midwest: Americas Common Denominator? (Religion By Region) (2004) — Mitwirkender — 18 Exemplare
Making Higher Education Christian: The History and Mission of Evangelical Colleges in America (1987) — Mitwirkender — 16 Exemplare
History and Women, Culture and Faith, Volume 4: Selected Writings of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: Explorations and… (2012) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 1 Exemplar
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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.… (mehr)