Distinguished Scholar in the History of Christianity

B.A. Haverford College, 1959 B.D. Westminster Theological Seminary, 1963 M.A. (1960) and Ph.D. (1965) Yale University

Research and Teaching Interests

American religion and culture; American evangelicalism and the role of Christianity in American higher education

Recent Publications

Fundamentalism and American Culture (Second Edition), New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 (1980). Jonathan Edwards: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship. New York, Oxford University Press, 1997. The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1991. (A collection of previously published essays).