This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about

front-line theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Moller, your host and

president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

George M. Marzan is a Francis A Maconani professor of history emeritus at

the University of Notre Dame.

He holds a degrees from Havreford College in Westminster Theological Seminary and a doctorate

from Yale University.

He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and is one of the most influential figures

in evangelical scholarship and in the evangelical academy of the last generation.

He is one of those indispensable writers, scholars, analysts, and teachers for the entire evangelical movement.

The titles of his influential books include fundamentalism in American culture, the soul of the

American University, and his magisterial biography of Jonathan Edwards,

a life. His latest work published by basic books is The Twilight of the American

Enlightenment, the 1950s, and the crisis of liberal belief.

I'm eagerly looking forward to this conversation with George Marsden.

He is such an incredibly insightful historian, and he writes from inside the evangelical movement.

He's written about the history of Fuller Theological Seminary,

and basically he's covered the waterfront of American intellectual

and American Protestant and evangelical life

from the period of the founding until the present.

But now it goes back to the 1950s.

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