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Overview
Faculty
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| Timothy
Larsen
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Carolyn and Fred McManis Chair of Christian Thought
On faculty since 2002
Office: BGC 286
Phone: (630) 752-5177
Timothy.T.Larsen@wheaton.edu
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Ph.D.
University of Stirling, Scotland, 1997 (History)
M.A. Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, 1990
(Theology)
B.A.(Hons) Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois,
1989 (History)
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Professional and Personal Interests
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As a "Wheatie" myself, my love for this place runs deep. There are no students I would rather teach than Wheaton students. It is a particular honor for me to be the unworthy heir of my mentor, Mark Noll, as the McManis Professor of Christian Thought. My primary intellectual interests are in the areas of British history, historical theology, Christian thought, and intellectual currents and controversies. My research and writing tends to explore theological and intellectual ideas as they were appropriated and wrestled with in specific cultural, social, and historical contexts. I am the husband of Dr. Jane Larsen, who is British and a medical doctor. We have three children, Lucia, Theo and Amelia, and are members of a young charismatic church, Life Church, in Wheaton.
Grants and Awards
$15,000 CCCU Initiative Program Grant: "Good Book and Holy Land: Historical
Perspectives on Anglo-American Christians' Critical Engagement with the Bible
in the Middle East". This is a collaborative project, 2007-09. My primary
collaborators are Stephen Alter, Thomas Kidd, and Sarah Miglio.
Crisis of Doubt was named The Book of the Year for 2006 by
Books and Culture.
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- BITH 883 The Bible in the Nineteenth Century
- BITH 677 Modern British Religious History
- BITH 677 History of Evangelicalism
- BITH 576 History of Christianity to 1900
- BITH 654 Historical Theology: Medieval Church
- BITH 653 Historical Theology: Early Church
- BITH 489 Theology and Art, 1000-1600
- BITH 372 Historical Theology
- BITH 315 Christian Thought
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Elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, for the Lent and Easter Terms 2007.
In 2001, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
(FRHistS).
My other professional memberships include:
- Royal Historical Society
- Ecclesiastical History Society
- The American Academy of Religion
- The American Society of Church History
- The Conference on Faith and History
- The United Reformed Church History Society
- Evangelical Theological Society
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- Modern British religious history
- History of Faith and Thought
- Evangelical history and theology
- Christianity and women
- The history of biblical criticism and interpretation
- Secularization theory
- Christianity and politics; church and state issues
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Larsen, T. and Treier, D. (eds) 2007 The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Larsen, T. and Husbands, M. (eds) 2007 Women, Ministry, and the Gospel: Exploring New Paradigms, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press.
Larsen, T. 2006 Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Larsen, T. and Greenman, J. 2005 Reading Romans
through the
Centuries: Encounters from the Early Church to Karl Barth, Grand Rapids:
Brazos Press.
Larsen, T. and Vickery, J. 2004 For Christ In Canada: A History of Tyndale Seminary, 1976-2001, Toronto: Tyndale University College and Seminary.
Larsen, T. 2004 Contested Christianity: The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian Theology, Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press.
Larsen, T. and Bebbington, D. (eds) 2003 Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press (Continuum).
Larsen, T. (ed.) 2003 Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, Leicester, England and Dowers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press (IVP).
Larsen, T. 2002 Christabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition (Studies in Modern British Religious History 4), Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press.
Larsen, T. 1999 Friends of Religious Equality: Nonconformist Politics in Mid-Victorian England (Studies in Modern British Religious History 1), Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press.
Addtional publications
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