Introduction
George M. Marsden (born February 25, 1939) is an historian who has written extensively on the interaction between Christianity and American culture, particularly on Christianity in American higher education and on American Evangelicalism. He is best known for his award-winning biography of the New England clergyman and theological writer Jonathan Edwards, a prominent theologian of Colonial America.
Biography
He attended Haverford College, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Yale University, finishing with a Ph.D. in American history under Professor Sydney Ahlstrom. He taught at Calvin College (1965–1986), Duke Divinity School (1986–1992), and as Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at The University of Notre Dame (1992–2008). In his retirement, he is still an Emeritus Professor of History University of Notre Dame.
Awards
- 2004 Bancroft Prize for
- 2004 Merle Curti Award
- 2005 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion
Selected works
- Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian Experience. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970).
- Fundamentalism and American culture : the shaping of twentieth century evangelicalism, 1870-1925. (New York, Oxford University Press, 1980).
- (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991).
- (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
- (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995).
- (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
- (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003).
- A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).
- The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief. (New York: Basic Books, 2014).
- C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: a Biography. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016).