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Books
Larsen, T. 2008 [paperback edition] Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Original edition: 2006.
( Named the Book of the Year for 2006 by Books & Culture)
Larsen, T. 2007 Friends of Religious Equality: Nonconformist Politics in Mid-Victorian England (Studies in Christian History and Thought), Milton Keynes, England: Paternoster Press. (This book was originally published in 1999.)
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, Downers Grove: InterVarsity 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.
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. 2009 “E. B. Pusey and Holy Scripture”, Journal of Theological Studies, 60, 2 (October 2009).
Larsen, T. 2009 “Austen Henry Layard’s Nineveh: The Bible and Archaeology in Victorian Britain”, Journal of Religious History, 33, 1 (March 2009).
Larsen, T. 2008 “‘War Is Over, If You Want It’: Beyond the Conflict between Faith and Science”, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 60, 3 (September 2008).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. forthcoming “Literacy and Biblical Knowledge: The Victorian Age and Our Own”, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 52, 3 (September 2009).
Larsen, T. forthcoming “Christina Rossetti, the Decalogue, and Biblical Interpretation”, Zeitschrift f ü r Neuere Theologiegeschichte.
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. 2009 “Wiseman, Nicholas”, in Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor (eds), Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, London: The British Library.
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.
Reviews in Academic Journals
Larsen, T. 2008 “We Live in Cross-Pressured Times” [a review essay of Charles Taylor, A Secular Age], Fides et Historia, 40, 2 (Summer/Fall 2008).
Larsen, T. 2008 Richard D. Floyd, Church, Chapel, and Party: Religious Dissent and Political Modernization in Nineteenth-Century England, Parliamentary History, 27, pt 3.
Larsen, T. 2008 D. Bruce Hindmarsh, The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England, English Historical Review, CXXIII, 502 (June 2008).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.
Larsen, T. forthcoming David M. Thompson, Cambridge Theology in the Nineteenth Century: Enquiry, Controversy and Truth, Victorian Studies, 51, 4 (Summer 2009).
Review Articles, Essays, Introductions, and Popular Pieces
Larsen, T. 2009 “God & Math” [review essay: Mario Livio, Is God A Mathematician?; Daniel J. Cohen, Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith], Books & Culture (Sept/Oct 2009), pp. 22-23.
Larsen, T. 2009 “Look Who’s a Believer Now”, Wall Street Journal, 29 May 2009, p. W13.
Larsen, T. 2009 “No Longer at Ease Here” [review essay: David Hempton, Evangelical Disenchantment: 9 Portraits of Faith and Doubt], Books & Culture (January/February 2009), p. 11.
Larsen, T. 2008 “St Flo” [review essay: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale and Mark Bostridge, Florence Nightingale: The Making of An Icon], Books & Culture (November/December 2008), pp. 16-17.
Larsen, T. 2008 “Reading Habits” [review essay: William St Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, and Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes.] Books & Culture, September/October 2008, pp. 34-36.
Larsen, T. 2008 “When Did Sunday Schools Start?”, Christian History & Biography (on-line: posted 5 September 2008).
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. A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians.
I have completed most of the main chapters of this book. I have a contract for it with Oxford University Press. I have agreed to have a full manuscript to OUP by October 2010.
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 was invited to lead a workshop on “The Bible and the Victorians” at the first ever joint meeting of the North American Victorian Studies Association and the British Association of Victorian Studies, Churchill College, Cambridge, 13-15 July 2009.
I received full funding from the Centre for Dissenting Studies, Dr Williams’s Library, London, and the University of London, Queen Mary, to be an invited, plenary speaker at their conference on “Dissent and the Bible”, 23 May 2009. The title of my paper was: “The Bible and Varieties of Nineteenth-Century Dissent: Elizabeth Fry, Mary Carpenter, and Catherine Booth”.
I received full funding from the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group to participate in a symposium entitled “Cities of God”, 9-10 January 2009, Cambridge University. My paper was on the Victorian archaeological discovery of Nineveh. There is a plan for a volume to arise from this symposium.
Together with Jeffrey Greenman, I organized a conference entitled, “Reading the Decalogue through the Centuries”, held at Wheaton College 6-7 November 2008. I also present a research paper myself on Christiana Rossetti. We raised $5,000 in grants from the McManis fund and CACE. Speakers included David Novak, Craig Evans, Susan Schreiner, Carl Trueman, Matthew Levering, Steve Long, and George Hunsinger.
I was a speaker and panellist at the Christian Theological Research Fellowship section of the American Academy of Religion at its annual meeting in Chicago, 1 November 2008. This session, which was entitled “Contesting Evangelicalism”, was devoted to discussing my edited book The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology.
I presented a paper entitled, “Florence Nightingale, Liberal Anglicans, and the Bible in the Nineteenth Century”, at Gordon College, Massachusetts, 24 October 2008, as part of my CCCU consultation.
I gave my inaugural lecture in the McManis Chair of Chrisitian Thought, 22 September 2008, Wheaton College, Illinois. It was entitled, “Literacy and Biblical Knowledge: The Victorian Age and Our Own”.
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.
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 Stanle |
