Marsden Speaks to Faculty
Aug 27, 2009
Dr. George Marsden, a former Francis A. McAnaney professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, will speak on “Christian Higher Education in the 21st Century” during faculty work days Sept. 2 at Cornerstone University.
“Dr. Marsden is one of American evangelicalism’s foremost scholars,” said Dr. Rick Ostrander, provost for Cornerstone University who invited Marsden to speak.
His book Fundamentalism and American Culture was named one of 100 “Books of the Century,” in Christianity Today.
Dr. Marsden holds a bachelor’s degree from Haverford College, a seminary degree from Westminster Theological Seminary and a master’s and doctorate degree from Yale University in American Studies.
He previously taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, St. Mary’s College and Yale University before serving as a history professor at Calvin College from 1974-1980 and then as director of the Master of Arts in Christian Studies Program from 1980-1983 before joining the faculty at the University of Notre Dame.
He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 2003 and the Research Achievement Award from the University of Notre Dame in 2004.
Dr. Marsden has won numerous awards including: "Book of the Year" for Fundamentalism and American Culture, from Eternity magazine; a Calvin Research Fellowship; "Book of the Year” for Reforming Fundamentalism, from Eternity magazine; a four-year grant from J. Howard Pew Freedom Trust, for a project on "The Religious and the Secular in Modern America;" and received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to work on a biography of Jonathan Edwards.
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