George Marsden to speak at Biola

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Feb 19, 2008 at 07:00 PM

Professor, Author, and Historian George Marsden, Ph.D. will speak at Biola University on Tuesday, February 19 from 7:00-8:30 p.m. in Calvary Chapel. Marsden is the first speaker in a new annual lecture series showcasing acclaimed Christian intellectuals sponsored by Biola’s Associated Students Department of Religious and Academic Relations.

One of the nation’s leading scholars of American religious history, Marsden is the former Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books on the history of Christianity in America. His most recent book, Jonathan Edwards: A Life, won four national book prizes, including the Bancroft Prize for American history, which is often considered the most prestigious award in American history. Other works by Marsden include Fundamentalism and American Culture, Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism, and The Search for Christian America.

An expert on the history of Christianity in America, Marsden holds bachelor’s degrees from Haverford College and Westminster Theological Seminary, and master’s and doctoral degrees in American studies from Yale University. He taught at Calvin College and Duke University before moving to Notre Dame in 1992. Marsden has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Freedom Trust, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Further achievements include:

• Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the biography category for books published in 2003;
• Winner of the 2004 Bancroft Prize sponsored by Columbia University;
• Selected as one of the Best Books of 2003 by Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post Book World, Christian Century, Books & Culture, Beliefnet, Publishers Weekly, and Christian Science Monitor;
• Featured in Preaching magazine as “one of the top ten books every preacher should read”;
• Co-winner of the 2004 Eugene Genovese Best Book in American History Prize sponsored by the Historical Society;
• Winner of the 2004 Merle Curti Award in intellectual history given by the Organization of American Historians;
• Won the Philip Schaff Prize sponsored by the American Society of Church History.
• Winner of the 2001-2003 Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize sponsored by the Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies;
• Won the 2004 John C. Pollock Award for Christian Biography sponsored by the Beeson Divinity School and Samford University;
• Selected as an outstanding book by University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries;
• Winner of the 2005 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion;
• Won the 2004 Christianity Today Magazine Book Award in the History/Biography category.

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