Michiana Adventist Forum
Francis McAnaney and Nicholas Miller
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Sat, February 27, 2016 @ 03:30 pm - 05:00 pm
Sat, February 27, 2016 @ 03:30 pm - 05:00 pm
Garber Auditorium, Chan Shun Hall
Michiana Adventist Forum presents "The Place of Scripture in the Founding of the United States" by Mark A. Noll, PhD, Francis A. McAnaney professor of history, University of Notre Dame, with a response by Nicholas Miller, JD, PhD, professor of church history, Andrews University, on Sabbath, 3:30 pm, February 27, 2016, Chan Shun Hall, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan.
Mark Noll specializes in North American intellectual and religious history. Educated at Wheaton College, the University of Iowa, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Vanderbilt University, Noll served on the faculties of Trinity College and Wheaton College before joining the University of Notre Dame History Department in 2006.
Noll's research concerns mostly the history of Christianity in the United States and Canada. He also teaches courses in the Civil War era, general Canadian history, and the recent world history of Christianity.
He has written numerous books and scholarly articles, including The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Christianity Today's book of the year in 1996), America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, and In The Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life .
In 2005 he was named by Time Magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential evangelicals in America. He was awarded a National Humanities Medal in the Oval Office by President George W. Bush in 2006.
Nicholas Miller is a lawyer (Columbia University) who has worked on a number of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including representing the plaintiffs in the case of Mitchell v. Helms, and a widely-published scholar with a PhD in American religious history (University of Notre Dame). He is a professor of church history at the Andrews University Seminary, where he also directs the International Religious Liberty Institute.
His book on the development of religious freedom in America, "The Religious Roots of the First Amendment," was published by Oxford University Press in the summer of 2012. He edited the Andrews University Press book on "Homosexuality, Marriage, and the Church" (2012).
Adventist Forum is open to the public. All are welcome. For information, contact Art Robertson at robertsa2@earthlink.net or call 269-471-7150.
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