Author Dr. Mark A. Noll will deliver the 27th Annual C. S. Lewis lecture "Race and Religion in American Politics: A History in
Desperate Need of Theological Evaluation" on Monday at 7:30
p.m. in the Benwood Auditorium of the UTC Engineering, Mathematics, and
Computer Science Building, at the corner of Vine and Palmetto Streets.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Dr. Noll has also agreed to meet with students from the university honors
program on the day of his lecture, from 3-4 p.m., in the flag room of
the Guerry Center. The session is open to the public.
Dr. Noll is the Francis A. McAnaney professor of history at the University
of Notre Dame, a position he accepted in 2006 after 27 years with the
history and theology departments at Wheaton College, Illinois. Dr. Noll
holds a Bachelor of Arts (English) from Wheaton College, a Master of
Arts (Theology) from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a
Doctorate of Philosophy (History of Christianity) from Vanderbilt
University.
Time Magazine, in 2005, recognized Dr. Noll as one of the top twenty-five influential evangelicals in America. Among his list of publications include: God and Race in American Politics: A
Short History (Princeton University Press, 2008); Religion and American
Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980s (Oxford University
Press, 2nd ed., 2007); The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (University
of North Carolina Press, 2006); America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 2002); The Old Religion in a
New World: The History of North American Christianity (Eerdmans, 2001); The Work We Have to Do: A History of Protestants in America (Oxford University Press, 2002); and, A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (Eerdmans, 1992).
Dr. Noll's visit has been supported by the Collegiate Christian Fellowship, the Chattanooga Community Foundation, the Speakers and Special Events Committee of UTC and Covenant College.
Established in 1983 by Charles Hummel of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, the C.S. Lewis Lectureship is designed to help perpetuate the Christian and literary legacy of
Oxford scholar C. S. Lewis.
Among the UTC faculty and staff who have served on the planning
committee for the 27th Annual C.S. Lewis Lecture are: Dr. Bryan
Hampton, UC Foundation Assistant Professor of English; Dr. Greg Heath,
Guerry Professor and head of the Department of Health and Human
Performance; Dr. Immaculate Kizza, Professor of English; Dr. Joseph
Kizza, Professor of Computer Science; Dr. Doug Kutz, Dr. Ben Gross,
Professors of Chemistry; Dr. Bill McClay, SunTrust Chair of Excellence
in Humanities; Dr. Dennis Plaisted, Professor of Philosophy; Bill Prince
of the Lupton Library; Daniel H. Webb, Director of Personnel Services;
and Dr. Michelle White, UC Foundation Associate Professor of History.