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.
Art Roberts
robertsa2@earthlink.net
269-471-7150