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Books

Larsen, T., Greenman, J. and Spencer, S. (eds) 2007 The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Pope John Paul II, Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

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, InterVarsity Press.

Larsen, T. 2006 Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Named the Book of the Year for 2006 by Books & Culture.

Larsen, T. and Greenman, J. (eds) 2005 Reading Romans through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Karl Barth. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

Larsen, T. 2004 Contested Christianity: The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian Theology, Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press.

Larsen, T. and Vickery, J. 2004 For Christ In Canada: A History of Tyndale Seminary, 1976-2001 (foreword by Leighton Ford). Toronto: Tyndale University College and Seminary.

Larsen, T. and Bebbington, D. (eds) 2003 Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations (Essays in Honour of Professor Clyde Binfield, OBE; Lincoln Studies in Religion and Society 5), London and New York: 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.

Edited Journal Issue

Timothy Larsen (guest editor) 2008 Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 86, 3 (Autumn 2004) [actual publication date: May 2008].
Theme of issue: “Biblical Scholarship in the Twentieth Century: The Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester, 1904-2004”. My contributors, many of whom are among the most eminent biblical scholars working today, are James D. G. Dunn, Morna D. Hooker, John Rogerson, Peter Oakes, Craig A. Evans, Wendy Cotter, and Eileen Schuller. I have also contributed a research article myself, “A. S. Peake, the Free Churches, and Modern Biblical Criticism”, as well as having written the introduction.

Journal Articles

Larsen, T. 2008 “A. S. Peake, the free churches, and modern biblical criticism”, in Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 86, 3 (Autumn 2004) [actual publication date: May 2008].

Larsen, T. 2006 “Dechristendomization as an Alternative to Secularization: Theology, History, and Sociology in Conversation”, Pro Ecclesia, XV, 3 (Summer 2006).

Larsen, T. 2005 “A Nonconformist Conscience? Free Churchmen in Parliament in Nineteenth-Century England”, Parliamentary History, 24, 1 (April 2005).

Larsen, T. 2004 “Joseph P. Free and the Romance of Biblical Archaeology”, Westminster Theological Journal 66, 1 (Spring 2004).

Larsen, T. 2003 “Bishop Colenso and His Critics: the Strange Emergence of Biblical Criticism in Victorian Britain”, in Jonathan A. Draper (ed.), The Eye of the Storm: Bishop John William Colenso and the Crisis of Biblical Inspiration, London: T. & T. Clark International (Journal of the Study of the Old Testament Supplement 386). (Also published in a South African edition: Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications.)

Larsen, T. 2003 “’Living by Faith’: A Short History of Brethren Practice”, Emmaus Journal, 12, 2 (Winter 2003).

Larsen, T. 2001 “The Regaining of Faith: reconversions among popular radicals in Mid-Victorian England”, Church History, 70, 3 (September 2001).

Larsen, T. 2001 “The Reforming Project of the English Evangelical Dissenters”, Fides et Historia, 33, 1.

Larsen, T. 2000 “Thomas Cook, Holy Land pilgrims and the dawn of the modern tourist industry”, in R. N. Swanson (ed.), Holy Land, Holy Lands, and Christian History (Studies in Church History 36), Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press for the Ecclesiastical History Society.

Larsen, T. 2000 “Thomas Cooper and Christian Apologetics in Victorian Britain”, Journal of Victorian Culture, 5, 2 (Autumn 2000).

Larsen, T. 2000 “Joseph Barker and Popular Biblical Criticism in the Nineteenth Century”, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 83, 1.

Larsen, T. 1998 “’How Many Sisters Make A Brotherhood?’ A case study in gender and ecclesiology in early nineteenth-century English Dissent”, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 49, 2.

Larsen, T. 1997 “Bishop Colenso and his Critics: the strange emergence of biblical criticism in Victorian Britain”, Scottish Journal of Theology, 50, 4.

Larsen, T. 1997 “Victorian Nonconformity and the Memory of the Ejected Ministers: the impact of the bicentennial commemorations of 1862”, in R. N. Swanson (ed.), The Church Retrospective (Studies in Church History 33), Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press for the Ecclesiastical History Society.

Larsen, T. “Austen Henry Layard’s Nineveh: The Bible and Archaeology in Victorian Britain”, Journal of Religious History, forthcoming.

Other Researched Articles

Larsen, T. 2008 “The Reception Given Evangelicalism in Modern Britain since its Publication in 1989”, in Michael A. G. Haykin and Kenneth J. Stewart (eds), The Emergence of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical Continuities, Nottingham: Apollos (Inter-Varsity Press).

Larsen, T. 2007 “Women in Public Ministry: A Historic Evangelical Distinctive”, in Timothy Larsen and Mark A. Husbands (eds), Women, Ministry, and the Gospel: Exploring New Paradigms, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Defining and Locating Evangelicalism”, in Timothy Larsen and Daniel J. Treier (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Larsen, T. 2006 “Charles Bradlaugh, Militant Unbelief, and the Civil Rights of Atheists”, in Caroline Litzenberger and Eileen Groth Lyon (eds), The Human Tradition in Modern Britain, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

Larsen, T. 2005 “Joseph P. Free and the Romance of Biblical Archaeology”, in Daniel M. Master, John M. Monson et al. (eds) Dothan I: Remains from the Tell (1953-1964), Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.

Larsen, T. 2005 “John William Colenso”, in Larsen, T. and Greenman, J. (eds) Reading Romans through the Centuries: Encounters from the Early Church to Karl Barth. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

Larsen, T. 2003 “Honorary Doctorates and the Nonconformist Ministry in Nineteenth-Century England”, in T. Larsen and D. Bebbington (eds), Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations, London and New York: Sheffield Academic Press (Continuum).

Larsen, T. 2002 “Methodist New Connexionism: lay emancipation as a denominational raison d’être”, in Deryck Lovegrove (ed.), The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism, London and New York: Routledge.

Larsen, T. 2002 “English Baptists, Jamaican Affairs and the Nonconformist Conscience: the campaign against Governor Eyre”, in D. W. Bebbington (ed.), The Gospel in the World: International Baptist Studies (Studies in Baptist History and Thought 1), Carlisle: Paternoster.

Larsen, T. 2001 “Sex, Lies, and Victorians: the Case of the Revd Newman Hall’s Divorce”, Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society, 6, 8 (May 2001).

Larsen, T. 1998 “’Living by Faith’: A short history of Brethren practice”, Brethren Archivists and Historians Network Review, 1, 2.

Articles in Works of Reference

Larsen, T. 2005 “Religion, Secularization, and the Crisis of Faith” [principal entry: 4,000 words], in Gregory Claeys (ed.) The Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth-Century Thought, London: Routledge, pp. 394-99.

Larsen, T. 2004 “Fowler, Henry Hartley, first Viscount Wolverhampton (1830-1911)”, in H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 20, pp. 580-82.

Larsen, T. 2004 “Williams, John Carvell (1821-1907)”, in H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 59, pp. 249-51.

Larsen, T. 2004 “Colenso, John William”, in Hans J. Hillerbrand (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Protestantism, New York and London: Routledge.

Larsen, T. 2003 “England, Victorian” [principal entry: 2,000 words] in Catharine Cookson (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Religious Freedom, New York and London: Routledge, pp. 108-112.

Larsen, T. 2003 “Cook, Thomas”; “Cooper, Thomas”; “Hall, Christopher Newman”; and “Pankhurst, Christabel” in Timothy Larsen (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, Leicester, England and Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press (IVP).

Larsen, T. 2002 “Ludlow, John Malcolm Forbes” in Jörg Persch (ed.) Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, fourth edition (volume 5), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Larsen, T. 2000 “Freikirchen: Kirchengeschichtlich”; “Freikirchen: Missionen in den Freikirchen”; “Forsyth, Peter Taylor”; “Gladstone, William Ewart”; and “Huxley, Thomas Henry” in Jörg Persch (ed.), Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, fourth edition (volume 3), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Larsen, T. 2000 “The Dissenting Ethos”; Larsen, T. and Barkley, S. “The Congregationalists”, The Victorian Web: http://www.victorianweb.org/religion
Based at Brown University, this is an award-winning website that is recommended by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Larsen, T. forthcoming “Nicholas Wiseman”, in Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor (eds), Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, Gent, Belgium: Academia Press (in association with the British Library).

Reviews in Academic Journals

Larsen, T. 2008 Joanna Dean, Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall, American Historical Review, 113, 1 (February 2008).

Larsen, T. 2006 Marion Ann Taylor and Heather E. Weir (eds) Let Her Speak for Herself: Nineteenth-Century Women Writing on the Women of Genesis, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 49, 4 (December 2006).

Larsen, T. 2005 Aileen Fyfe, Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain, The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society (June 2005).

Larsen, T. 2005 Tony Tucker, Reformed Ministry: Traditions of Ministry and Ordination in the United Reformed Church and Alan P. F. Sell and Anthony R. Cross (eds), Protestant Nonconformity in the Twentieth Century, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 56, 2 (April 2005).

Larsen, T. 2005 D. G. Hart, Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham, Journal of Religion, 85, 1 (January 2005).

Larsen, T. 2003 Stewart J. Brown, The National Churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1801-46, Victorian Studies, 45, 3 (Spring 2003).

Larsen, T. 2003 Pamela J. Walker, Pulling the Devil’s Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain, Journal of Religion, 83, 2 (April 2003).

Larsen, T. 2003 Charles Cashdollar, A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830-1915, Journal of Religious History, 27, 1 (Feb. 2003).

Larsen, T. 2002 James E. Secord, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of ‘Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation’, Fides et Historia, XXXIV, 1.

Larsen, T. 2002 Linda Wilson, Constrained by Zeal: Female Spirituality amongst Nonconformists, 1825-1875, Journal of Religious History, 26, 3.

Larsen, T. 2001 Maxie B. Burch, The Evangelical Historians: the Historiography of George Marsden, Nathan Hatch, and Mark Noll, Christianity and History Newsletter, 20 (Spring 2001).

Larsen, T. 2000 Christopher Oldstone-Moore, Hugh Price Hughes, History, 85, 278.

Larsen, T. 1999 Marjorie Reeves, Pursuing the muses: Female education and nonconformist culture, 1700-1900 and John Wolffe (ed.), Evangelical faith and public zeal: Evangelicals and society in Britain, 1780-1980, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 50, 1.

Review Articles, Essays, Introductions, and Popular Pieces

Larsen, T. 2008 “The Americanist: An Interview with Ken Burns”, Christian Century, 15 July 2008, pp. 32-33.

Larsen, T. 2008 “Introduction”, in Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 86, 3 (Autumn 2004) [actual publication date: May 2008].

Larsen, T. 2008 “Counter-culture”, World Magazine, 17 May 2008.

Larsen, T. 2008 “Wheaton Prof Explains Divorce Policy”, World Magazine’s World on the Web, posted on-line 6 May 2008.

Larsen, T. 2008 “Enlightened Racism” [review essay: Colin Kidd, The Forging of the Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000.] Books & Culture., January/February 2008, p. 10.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Introduction”, in Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen, and Stephen R. Spencer (eds) The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Pope John Paul II, Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

Larsen, T. 2007 “No-longer-hard Passages of Scripture”, Theolog.org (The Blog of the Christian Century), posted 3 May 2007.

Larsen, T. and Husbands, M. 2007 “Introduction” in Timothy Larsen and Mark A. Husbands (eds), Women, Ministry, and the Gospel: Exploring New Paradigms, InterVarsity Press.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Email Theology”, Theolog.org (The Blog of the Christian Century), posted 27 March 2007.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Eve’s Exegetes. Victorian Women on Genesis” [review essay: Marion Ann Taylor and Heather E. Weir (eds) Let Her Speak for Herself: Nineteenth-Century Women Writing on the Women of Genesis], Books & Culture, posted on-line 12 March 2007.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Look Again” [review essay: Judith Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols, and Michaela Giebelhausen, Painting the Bible: Representation and Belief in Mid-Victorian Britain], Books & Culture, March/April 2007, pp. 44-45.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Callous about a chalice”, Theolog.org (The Blog of the Christian Century), posted 20 February 2007.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Epistolatory Theology”, Theolog.org (The Blog of the Christian Century), posted 19 January 2007.

Larsen, T. 2006 “Our Favorite War” [a review of the Clint Eastwood film, Flags of Our Fathers], Christian Century, 28 November 2006, pp. 49-50.

Larsen, T. 2006 “Repackaged” [a review of the Woody Allen film, Scoop], Christian Century, 5 September 2006, p. 59.

Larsen, T. 2006 “A Time To Swing” [review essay: Peter J. Levinson, Tommy Dorsey: Livin’ In A Great Big Way], Books & Culture, July/August 2006, p. 24.

Larsen, T. 2006 David Bebbington, The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody, Christianity Today, June 2006, p. 64.

Larsen, T. and Greenman, J. 2005 “Introduction”, in Larsen, T. and Greenman, J. (eds) Reading Romans through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Karl Barth. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

Larsen, T. 2005 “’Do Something’” [review essay: David Bebbington, The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody.] Books & Culture (Nov/Dec 2005), p. 17.

Larsen, T. 2005 “The Power of Books”, Christian History & Biography (Spring 2005), pp. 14-15.

Larsen, T. 2005 “Victorian Skeptics on the Road to Damascus”, Christian History & Biography, May 2005 e-newsletter and website:

www.christianitytoday.com/history/newsletter/2005/may20.html

Larsen, T. 2005 “A Most Unclubbable Man. The curious and instructive pilgrimage of Orestes Augustus Brownson” [review essay: Patrick W. Carey, Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane; Orestes A. Brownson (introduction by Peter Augustine Lawler), The American Republic], Books & Culture (May/June 2005), p. 33.

Larsen, T. 2005 “The Orderly Product of a Disordered Mind” [review essay: Julia Keay, Alexander the Corrector: The Tormented Genius who Unwrote the Bible], Books & Culture (March/April 2005), p. 16.

Larsen, T. 2005 “Anglican Angst: Save the Last Dance for Me” [review essay: Derek Keene, Arthur Burns, and Andrew Saint (eds), St Paul’s: The Cathedral Church of London, 604-2004; William H. Katerberg, Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880-1950; ,John Richard Orens, Stewart Headlam’s Radical Anglicanism: The Mass, The Masses, and the Music Hall; Duncan Dormor, Jack McDonald, and Jeremy Caddick (eds), Anglicanism: The Answer to Modernity], Books & Culture (Jan/Feb 2005), pp. 18-19.

Larsen, T. 2004 “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” [review essay: Dale A. Johnson, The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925; Grayson Carter, Anglican Evangelicals: Protestant Secessions from the Via Media, c. 1800-1850], Books & Culture (Jan/Feb 2004), pp. 20-21.
[also reprinted in Christianity and History Forum, Summer 2005, pp. 46-50.]

Larsen, T. and Bebbington, D. 2003 “Introduction”, in Timothy Larsen and David Bebbington (eds), Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations (Essays in Honour of Professor Clyde Binfield, OBE; Lincoln Studies in Religion and Society 5), London and New York: Sheffield Academic Press (Continuum).

Research in Progress and Conferences

books:
Larsen, T. The Bible and the Victorians. I am in the early stages of this project.

editing:
David Gange of Cambridge University and I are planning to co-edit a volume, the working title for which is Cities of God: Archaeology and the Bible in Nineteenth-Century Britain. I plan to contribute a research chapter on Nineveh and also a concluding, synthetic chapter.

plenary conference papers, convening conferences, collaborations, and presentations:
I gave a plenary address entitled, “’War Is Over, If You Want It’: Beyond the Conflict between Faith and Learning”, at the Redemption of Reason conference, University of Chicago, 2 November 2007.

“Good Book and Holy Land: Historical Perspectives on Anglo-American Christians’ Critical Engagement with the Bible and the Middle East” consultation, Baylor University, 28-29 September 2007. I gave a paper at this event entitled, “Austen Henry Layard’s Nineveh” and my paper, “E. B. Pusey and Holy Scripture”, was the basis of a workshop discussion.

I gave an invited, public lecture entitled “Defining and Locating Evangelicalism” for the Stead Center for Ethics and Values, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, 26 September 2007.

I was an invited, fully-funded panellist for all the sessions at the following conference, “European Religion / American Religion: Why the Difference?”, University of Iowa, 20-21 April 2007.

I gave the following, invited address to the committee of the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, University of Cambridge, “Biblical Studies Today, Victorian Studies, and the Reception History of the Bible”, 14 March 2007.

I gave the following, invited paper, “Conversions, Deconversions, and Reconversions in the Lives of Victorian Secularists”, to the Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar, Faculty of History, Cambridge University, England, 6 February 2007.

I gave the following, invited paper, “C. H. Spurgeon’s Reading of the Sermon on the Mount”, to the Church History Seminar, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, England, 14 February 2007.

I gave the following, invited paper, “For the Bible and the British: the Reception of Austen Henry Layard’s Nineveh and its Remains (1849)”, to the Modern British History Seminar, Faculty of History, Cambridge University, 22 January 2007.

I was on the panel, “Recovering Female Interpreters of the Bible”, Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting, 18-21 November 2006, Washington, DC.

Together with Douglas A. Sweeney and Daniel J. Treier, I organized the session “Understanding Recent Proposals on Evangelical Identity” for the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, 15-17 November 2006, Washington DC. In our session, I gave a paper on “Defining Evangelicalism”.

“Good Book and Holy Land: Historical Perspectives on Anglo-American Christians’ Critical Engagement with the Bible and the Middle East”. This is a collaborative project, 2007-09. My primary collaborators are Stephen Alter, Thomas Kidd, and Sarah Miglio. It is been awarded a $15,000 grant from the CCCU Initiative Program.

I was a respondent to Professor Mirsoslav Volf paper’s “Remembering Passion: Mistreatment, Memory, and Reconciliation”, at the Seventh Annual Christianity and Culture Conference, Michigan State University, 7 October 2006.

“Doubt, Faith, and Reconversion”. I gave this invited paper to the Colloquium on Religion and History, Notre Dame University, Indiana, on 5 April 2006.

“Pioneer Girls: Mid-Twentieth-Century American Evangelicalism’s Girl Scouts”. I gave this invited, plenary paper at a conference sponsored by the Royal Historical Society:

“Christian Youth Movements”, 17-19 February 2006, University of Birmingham, England.

“The Reception Given David Bebbington’s Evangelicalism in Modern Britain since Publication”. I am giving this paper at a themed session at the national annual conference of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), 18 November 2005, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

Together with Dr Jeffrey Greenman and Dr Stephen Spencer, I organized a conference entitled “Reading the Sermon on the Mount: Classic Christian Resources for Moral Formation”, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, 3-5 November 2005. Speakers included Stanley Hauerwas, Robert Wilken, Mark Noll, Margaret M. Mitchell, Robert Wilken, David Lyle Jeffrey, William T. Cavanaugh, and Susan E. Schreiner. We were awarded a $5,000 grant from the Center for Applied Christian Ethics (CACE) for this conference. I gave a research paper myself on Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s reading of the Sermon on the Mount. We have a contract with Brazos Press for an edited volume arising from this conference.

I developed the theme, “Women, Ministry, and the Gospel” for the 14th Annual Wheaton College Theology Conference, 7-8 April 2005, Wheaton, Illinois, and, together with Mark Husbands, organized and convened the conference. I also gave a plenary paper entitled, “Women in Public Ministry: A Historic Evangelical Distinctive”. We have a contract with InterVarsity Press for an edited volume arising from this conference.

I organized the panel, “The Christian Historian and Women’s History”, and was myself the chair as well as one of the panellists, for the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Hope College, Holland, MI, 14-16 October 2004. The other panellists were Anita Specht, Sue Horner, and Melissa Franklin Harkrider.

I was the commentator for the panel session, “Victorian Preachers”, at the annual meeting of the Western Conference on British Studies, San Antonio, Texas, 8-9 October 2004. The research papers were by Robert H. Ellison, Denis Paz, and Keith Francis.

I was a respondent to D. G. Hart at an event sponsored by Books & Culture and the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, “What Must Evangelicalism Do To Be Saved?”, 14 April 2004, Wheaton College.

I gave an invited, plenary paper entitled, “Joseph P. Free and the Romance of Biblical Archaeology”, at the opening session of the Wheaton College 48th Annual Archaeology Conference, Wheaton College, IL, 14-15 November 2003.

“Charles Bradlaugh and Popular Polemics against Miracles in Nineteenth-Century Britain”. I gave this paper at the annual conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society at the University of Exeter, England, 23-26 July 2003.

“A Nonconformist Conscience? Free Churchmen in Parliament in the Nineteenth Century”. I gave this invited, plenary paper at a conference, “Parliament and Dissent”, hosted by the journal, Parliamentary History, in July 2002 at Dr Williams’s Library, London.

Together with George Marsden, Kurt Peterson, and Boyd Taylor Coolman, I was on the panel, “Teaching Church History in Confessional Contexts: Pedagogy and Instruction Utilizing Disciplinary Methodology” at the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Huntington College, IN, October 2002.

Together with Dr Jeffrey Greenman, I developed and convened the conference “Reading Romans: Encounters with the Epistle to the Romans through the Centuries”. St Michael’s College, University of Toronto, 28-29 May 2002. Speakers included Timothy George, John Webster, Mark Noll, Gerald Bray, Christopher Hall, Pamela Bright, David Demson, and Steven Boguslawski. We edited the resulting book which has been published by Brazos Press.

I developed a concept for a conference and recruited Professor David Bebbington to co-convene it with me. It was entitled “Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations” and was held at Westminster College, Cambridge, 12-15 July 2001. Speakers included W. R. Ward, Hugh McLeod, Clyde Binfield, Richard Carwardine, Alan Sell, David Cornick, David Thompson, Elaine Kaye, Sheridan Gilley, Frances Knight, and John Briggs. A resulting volume, which I co-edited, and to which I contributed a chapter, has been published by Sheffield Academic Press.

I gave an invited, plenary paper on “Dissent and Reform” at the Past and Present conference: “Rethinking the ‘age of reform’: Britain circa 1780-1850” in July 2000, St Anne’s College, Oxford.

I gave an invited paper at the University of London’s Modern Religious History Research Seminar, on 9 March 1998. It was entitled, “Thomas Cooper and Christian Apologetics in Victorian Britain”.

“Thomas Cook, Holy Land Pilgrims, and the Dawn of the Modern Tourist Industry”. I gave this paper at the annual conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society, Warwick University, England, in July 1998.

“‘How Many Sisters Make A Brotherhood?’ Ecclesiology and Gender in Early Nineteenth-Century English Dissent.” I gave this paper at the annual conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society, at the University of Kent at Canterbury, in England, in July 1996.

“Bishop Colenso and the Bible”. I gave this invited, plenary paper at the annual conference of the Study Group on Christianity and History (Scotland), at the University of Stirling, in October 1995.

“Victorian Nonconformity and the Memory of the Ejected Ministers.” I gave this paper at the annual conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society, at the University of East Anglia, England, in July 1995.

“Living by Faith: Classical and Contemporary Views on the Proper Way to Pay Christian Workers Amongst the Open Brethren in the United States.” I gave this paper at the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) on the theme of “Biblical Theology”, Bethel Theological Seminary, 16-17 March 1990.

Together with Jeffrey Greenman and Stephen Spencer, I am organizing a conference entitled, “Reading the Decalogue through the Centuries” to be held at Wheaton College in November 2008. I plan to present a research paper myself. We have a $5,000 grant for the McManis fund, and Brazos has expressed an interest in publishing the resulting volume.