Adventist Forum: Scripture & Founding the U.S.

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 Afternoon at

3:30 pm, February 27, 2016, Chan Shun Hall, Andrews University, Berrien

Springs, MI.

Dr. Mark Noll is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the

University of Notre Dame. He specializes in North American intellectual

and religious history.

Educated at Wheaton College, the University of Iowa, Trinity Evangelical

Divinity School and Vanderbilt University, Dr. 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.

Dr.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

471-7150.