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Timothy Larsen CURRICULUM VITAE CURRENT POSITION: 2007- Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Christian Thought Graduate Theological Studies Wheaton College Wheaton, IL, 60187-5593, USA [email protected] 2006- Professor of Theology Graduate Theological Studies Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois) As well as being promoted to full professor, I was also awarded tenure in 2006. 2002-06 Associate Professor of Theology Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois) PROFESSIONAL HONORS, MEMBERSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND SERVICE: Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge University, Lent and Easter terms 2007 (I am still a Member of the High Table class (f) at Trinity College.) Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University, for the Trinity term 2012 Honorary Fellow, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, 2018- Honorary Research Fellow, School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2014- Visiting Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University, Winter and Spring Quarters 2014 Founding Fellow, Center for Theologically Engaged Anthropology, University of Georgia 2001- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). (The criterion for being elected a Fellow was that one had made a significant and original contribution to historical scholarship.”) 2012- Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (FRAI).

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Timothy Larsen

CURRICULUM VITAE CURRENT POSITION: 2007- Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Christian Thought Graduate Theological Studies Wheaton College Wheaton, IL, 60187-5593, USA [email protected] 2006- Professor of Theology Graduate Theological Studies Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois) As well as being promoted to full professor, I was also awarded tenure in 2006. 2002-06 Associate Professor of Theology Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois) PROFESSIONAL HONORS, MEMBERSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND SERVICE: Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge University, Lent and Easter terms 2007 (I am still a Member of the High Table class (f) at Trinity College.) Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University, for the Trinity term 2012 Honorary Fellow, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, 2018- Honorary Research Fellow, School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2014- Visiting Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University, Winter and Spring Quarters 2014 Founding Fellow, Center for Theologically Engaged Anthropology, University of Georgia 2001- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). (The criterion for being elected a Fellow was that one had “made a significant and original contribution to historical scholarship.”) 2012- Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (FRAI).

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My other professional memberships are in the American Academy of Religion, the American Anthropological Association, the American Society of Church History, the Conference on Faith and History, the Ecclesiastical History Society, the North American Conference on British Studies, and the North American Victorian Studies Association. American Society of Church History Council Member, 2015-18 American Society of Church History Nominating Committee Member, 2018- 2004-2005 Junior Faculty Achievement Award, Wheaton College 2017-18 Leland Ryland Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, Wheaton College Editorial and Advisory Boards: sole General Editor, Spiritual Lives biography series, Oxford University Press; editorial board, the Journal of Religious History; editorial board, Fides et Historia; advisory board, Education & Culture [until it closed]; Contributing Editor, Books & Culture [until it closed]; advisory board member, the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan [until it closed]; Senior Advisory Board, Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism; a General Editor for the monograph series, Studies in Evangelical History and Thought, Paternoster Press; Board of Visitors, Jonathan Edwards Center, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. External Assessor: I have served as an external assessor, reviewer, or judge for the MacArthur (“Genius Award”) Fellowship; Fellowship in the British Academy; the American Council of Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship; Christianity Today book awards; faculty faith and learning papers, Daystar University, Nairobi; Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs Program grants (the Historical Society / the John Templeton Foundation). Peer Reviewer: I am asked regularly to peer review research articles and book-length manuscripts or proposals. The venues have included the Historical Journal, Journal of British Studies, Church History, Journal of Religious History, Victorian Studies, Fides et Historia, International Journal of Systematic Theology, Christian Scholar’s Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of Theological Studies (Oxford), Theological Studies (Marquette), Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Religion and Literature, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Neotestamentica: Journal of the New Testament Society of Southern Africa, Modern Intellectual History, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, Penn State University Press, InterVarsity Press, Greenwood Press, Routledge, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Bloomsbury - T.&T. Clark, Cambridge University Press and, most frequently, Oxford University Press. Media: Quotations from me as an academic expert have appeared in a variety of media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Huffington Post, Toronto Star, San Diego Union Tribune, Daily Herald, Houston

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Chronicle, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Times-Picayune, Religion News Service, Reuters, CNN, WGN TV nightly news, NBC5 TV nightly news, and local and national radio programs. Articles of mine have appeared in venues including the Wall Street Journal, Times Literary Supplement, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and CNN.com. EDUCATION: 1985-89 BA (Hons), magna cum laude, History, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL Thesis: “Wesley the Idealist: John Wesley’s Views on Money, Luxury, and Poverty.” Supervisor: Professor Mark A. Noll 1985-89 Teacher Training Course, Wheaton College; certified to teach in secondary education by the State of Illinois 1989-90 MA, Theology, summa cum laude [GPA: 3.97], Wheaton College (IL) 1992-97 PhD, History, University of Stirling, Scotland Pursued part-time while a full-time lecturer. A revised version of my thesis, “Friends of Religious Equality: the Politics of the English Nonconformists, 1847-67,” was published. Supervisor: Professor David Bebbington External Reader: Professor Clyde Binfield Additional information on education: For my bachelor’s degree, I was one of only four students to receive an honors degree in a graduating class of over 500 students. I was also awarded a medal for Excellence in History from the Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America which was a vehicle for the history faculty to recognize their most outstanding student and the only honor that the department awarded. I was also inducted into the Wheaton College Scholastic Honor Society (an honor that was restricted to a maximum of the top 5% of the students of any graduating class) and, from within that pool, won one of the Society’s grants for graduate work. For my master’s degree, I was joint recipient of the Kantzer Award in Christian History and Theology. This is the only prize the department awards for graduate students undertaking studies in any area of either theology or history. PREVIOUS POSITIONS: 2000-02 Professor of Church History Tyndale Seminary (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). (Tyndale is the largest seminary in Canada.) 1998-99 Principal and Lecturer in Church History Covenant College (Coventry, England)

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1990-98 Lecturer in Church History Covenant College (Coventry, England) (Covenant College was an institution of theological education. Its courses were recognized as Master’s degree level through the Religious and Theological Studies Department of the University of Wales, Cardiff.) PUBLICATIONS: single-authored books: Larsen, T. 2018 John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Larsen, T. 2018 George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles: Incarnation, Doubt, and Reenchantment, Downers Grove: IVP Academic. Larsen, T. 2016 [paperback edition] The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Original edition: 2014. (Named the Book of the Year for 2014 by Books & Culture. I am the only author to win this honor twice. Also: Finalist for the 2016 Arlin G. Meyer Prize.)

Larsen, T. 2012 [paperback edition] A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Original edition: 2011. 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. 2004 Contested Christianity: The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian Theology, Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press. 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 books:

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Larsen, T. and Ledger-Lomas, M. (eds) 2017 The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (General Editors, Timothy Larsen and Mark A. Noll: The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, 5 vols.) Larsen, T. and Johnson, K. (eds), 2013 Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture, Downers Grove: IVP Academic. Larsen, T. and Greenman, J. (eds), 2012 The Decalogue through the Centuries: From the Hebrew Scriptures to Benedict XVI, Louisville: Westminster John Knox. Larsen, T. and Treier, D. (eds) 2007 The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 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 Husbands, M. (eds) 2007 Women, Ministry, and the Gospel: Exploring New Paradigms, IVP Academic. 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. 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. and Johnson, K. (eds), forthcoming Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson, Downers Grove: IVP Academic, [2019]. co-authored book: 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. Sole General Editor, Spiritual Lives series, Oxford University Press:

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Barry Hankins, Woodrow Wilson: Ruling Elder, Spiritual President, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. (Winner of the A. Donald Macleod Award for Presbyterian History.) Emma Mason, Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Timothy Larsen, John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Co-General Editor: Larsen, T. and Noll, Mark. General Editors. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions. 5 volume: vol. 3 (2017), vol. 2 (2018), vol. 5 (2018). Vols 1 and 4 are forthcoming. 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, were James D. G. Dunn, Morna D. Hooker, John Rogerson, Peter Oakes, Craig A. Evans, Wendy Cotter, and Eileen Schuller. I also contributed a research article myself, “A. S. Peake, the Free Churches, and Modern Biblical Criticism,” and wrote the introduction. research articles in peer-reviewed or academic journals, annuals, and series: Larsen, T. 2017 “The Catholic Faith of John Stuart Mill’s Stepdaughter: A Note on the Diary and Devotional Life of the Feminist Activist Helen Taylor (1831-1907)”, Catholic Historical Review, 103, 3 (Summer 2017). Larsen, T. 2016 “British Social Anthropologists and Missionaries in the Twentieth Century”, Anthropos, 111, 2. Larsen, T. 2013 “E. B. Tylor, Religion and Anthropology”, British Journal for the History of Science, 46, 3 (September 2013). Larsen, T. 2013 “The Bible and Belief in Victorian Britain”, Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens (published by Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III), 76 (Octobre 2012) [actual publication date: June 2013]. Larsen, T. 2012 “The Book of Acts and the Origin of the Races in Evangelical Thought”, Victorian Review, 37, 2 (Fall 2011).

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Larsen, T. 2012 “Biblical Commentaries as Prose”, Nineteenth-Century Prose, 39, 1/2 (Spring/Fall 2012). Larsen, T. and Brandt, E. 2011 “The Old Atheism Revisited: Robert G. Ingersoll and the Bible”, Journal of the Historical Society, 11, 2 (June 2011). Larsen, T. 2009 “E. B. Pusey and Holy Scripture”, Journal of Theological Studies, 60, 2 (October 2009). Larsen, T. 2009 “Christina Rossetti, the Decalogue, and Biblical Interpretation”, Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte, 16, 1 (July 2009). Larsen, T. 2009 “Literacy and Biblical Knowledge: The Victorian Age and Our Own”, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 52, 3 (September 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 “Pioneer Girls: Mid-Twentieth-Century American Evangelicalism’s Girl Scouts”, Asbury Journal, 63, 2 (Fall 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).

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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. 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. 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. 1998 “‘Living by Faith’: A short history of Brethren practice”, Brethren Archivists and Historians Network Review, 1, 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. other research articles or chapters: Larsen, T. and King, Daniel J. 2018 “The Dependence of Sociocultural Anthropology on Theological Anthropology”, in J. Derrick Lemons (ed.) Theologically Engaged Anthropology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Larsen, T. 2018 “An Evangelical Response to the Decline of Christendom”, in Paul S. Peterson (ed.), The Decline of Established Christianity in the Western World: Theological Interpretations and Responses (Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations), London: Routledge, 2018 [actual publication date: circa October 2017].

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Larsen, T. 2017 “Scripture and Biblical Interpretation”, in Stewart J. Brown, Peter B. Nockles, and James Pereiro (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Larsen, T. 2017 “Congregationalists”, in Larsen, T. and Ledger-Lomas, M. (eds) The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Larsen, T. 2017 “Anthropology” in Gary B. Ferngren (ed.), Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction, second edition, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Larsen, T. and Gibson, R. 2016 “Nineteenth-century spiritual autobiography: Carlyle, Mill, Newman”, in Adam Smyth (ed.), A History of English Autobiography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Larsen, T. 2015 “How Evangelical Biblicism Saved Western Civilization”, in Anthony R. Cross, Peter J. Morden, and Ian M. Randall (eds), Pathways and Patterns in History: Essays on Baptists, Evangelicals, and the Modern World in Honour of David Bebbington, London: Spurgeon’s College and the Baptist Historical Society. Larsen, T. 2013 “Nineveh”, in David Gange and Michael Ledger-Lomas (eds), Cities of God: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Larsen, T. 2013 “The Bible and the Varieties of Nineteenth-Century Dissent: Elizabeth Fry, Mary Carpenter, and Catherine Booth”, in Scott Mandelbrote and Michael Ledger-Lomas (eds), Dissent and the Bible in Britain, c. 1650-1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Larsen, T. 2013 “The Evangelical Reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, in Keith Johnson and Timothy Larsen (eds), Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture, Downers Grove: IVP. Larsen, T. 2012 “Christina Rossetti”, in Timothy Larsen and Jeffrey P. Greenman (eds), The Decalogue through the Centuries: From the Hebrew Scriptures to Benedict XVI, Louisville: Westminster John Knox. Larsen, T. 2012 “Evangelicals, the Academy, and the Discipline of History”, in Todd C. Ream, Jerry Pattengale, and David L. Riggs (eds), Beyond Integration? Inter/Disciplinary Possibilities for the Future of Christian Higher Education, Abilene: Abilene Christian University Press. 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).

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Larsen, T. 2007 “Charles Haddon Spurgeon”, in Larsen, T., Greenman, J. and Spencer, S. (eds) The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries: From the Early Church to John Paul II, Grand Rapids: Brazos 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. forthcoming “Joseph Ratzinger on the Nativity of Our Lord: Protestants and Catholics Reunite for Christmas,” in Emery de Gaál and Matthew Levering (eds), Joseph Ratzinger and the Healing of the Reformation-Era Divisions, Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Academic [2019]. articles in works of reference: Larsen, T. and Johnson, Jessica L. forthcoming “Moore, George Foot”, in Thomas Römer et al (eds), Encyclopaedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Berlin: De Gruyter.

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Larsen, T. and Monahan, David forthcoming “MacLaren, Alexander”, in Thomas Römer et al (eds), Encyclopaedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Berlin: De Gruyter. Larsen, T. and Healey, Spencer forthcoming “Marsh, Herbert”, in Thomas Römer et al (eds), Encyclopaedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Berlin: De Gruyter. Larsen, T. and Callaway, Alexander forthcoming “Colson, Charles Wendell ‘Chuck’”, in Gary Smith (ed.), American Religious History: Belief and Society through Time, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. Larsen, T. and Streckert, Tyler 2016 “Meyer, Frederick Brotherton” (Vol. 3; pp. 1513-14); “Pioneer Clubs (formerly Pioneer Girls)” (Vol. 3; pp. 1809-10); and “Pierson, Arthur Tappan” (Vol. 3; p. 1803) in George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Christianity in the United States, 5 volumes, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. Larsen, T. and Gibson, Richard 2012 “Evangelicalism”, Oxford Bibliographies Online: Victorian Literature, Oxford University Press (www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com). 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).

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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. These articles have also been translated into Spanish by Universidad Complutense de Madrid. reviews in academic journals: Larsen, T. 2018 Colin Kidd, The World of Mr Casaubon: Wars of Mythography, 1700-1870, Victorian Studies, 60, 3 (Spring 2018), pp. 496-98. Larsen, T. 2018 “A Grand Narrative of High Politics: Cannadine’s Victorious Century” [review essay], Fides et Historia, 50, 1 (Winter/Spring 2018), pp. 94-98. Larsen, T. 2017 Daniel Inman, The Making of Modern English Theology: God and the Academy at Oxford, 1833-1945 and Frances Knight, Victorian Christianity in Fin De Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age, Victorian Studies, 59, 2 (Winter 2017), pp. 322-25. Larsen, T. 2015 Lieven Boeve, Yves De Maeseneer, and Ellen Van Stichel (eds), Questioning the Human: Towards a Theological Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 21, 3 (September 2015). Larsen, T. 2015 Efram Sera-Shriar, The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871, Victorian Studies, 57, 1 (Autumn 2014). Larsen, T. 2014 Robert Deaken, Cosmo Lang: Archbishop in War and Crisis, American Historical Review, 119, 1 (February 2014). Larsen, T. 2012 Robert H. Ellison (ed.), A New History of the Sermon: The Nineteenth Century, Victorian Studies, 54, 1 (Autumn 2011). Larsen, T. 2011 Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich; Martin E. Marty, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison: A Biography, Fides et Historia, 43, 2 (Summer/Fall 2011). Larsen, T. 2011 Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay, The Science of Religion in Britain, 1860-1915, Journal of British Studies, 50, 3 (July 2011).

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Larsen, T. 2010 Dominic Erdozain, The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion, Victorian Studies, 53, 1 (Autumn 2010). Larsen, T. 2009 David M. Thompson, Cambridge Theology in the Nineteenth Century: Enquiry, Controversy and Truth, Victorian Studies, 51, 4 (Summer 2009). 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).

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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. other publications: Larsen, T. Review of Ian Hesketh, Victorian Jesus: J. R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity, Times Literary Supplement, 5 October 2018, p. 35. Larsen, T. “Terry Gross’s Anti-Christian Crusade”, Christian Post, posted on-line at www.christianpost.com on 22 September 2018. Larsen, T. Review of Jon Bialecki, A Diagram of Fire: Miracles and Variation in the American Charismatic Movement, Times Literary Supplement, 17 November 2017, p. 39. Larsen, T. “Why I’m fascinating by faithfulness”, Faith and Leadership, posted on-line at www.faithandleadership.com on 18 September 2017. Larsen, T. “Evangelicalism’s Strong History of Women in Ministry”, Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought (Sept/Oct 2017), pp. 16-21, Larsen, T. “Professor Pope” (review essay: Pope Benedict XVI with Peter Seewald, Last Testament: In His Own Words), Education & Culture, posted on-line on 31 May 2017. Larsen, T. “The fasts we choose”, Christian Century, 1 March 2017, pp. 10-11. Larsen, T. “Incarnation and drains: The intellectual strength of Anglicanism” (review of James Kirby, Historians and the Church of England: Religion and historical scholarship, 1870-1920), Times Literary Supplement, 10 February 2017, p. 29.

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Larsen, T. “Pilgrim’s Finale?” (review essay: A. N. Wilson, The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible), Touchstone (January / February 2017), pp. 65-67. Larsen, T. Review of Gerry Bowler, Christmas in the Crosshairs: Two thousand years of denouncing and defending the world’s most celebrated holiday, Times Literary Supplement, 23 December 2016, p. 26. Larsen, T. “Response” in “An Author Meets His Critics: Faith in Anthropology: A Symposium on Timothy Larsen’s The Slain God”, Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 43, 2 (Autumn 2016), pp. 149-51 (whole section: pp. 140-52). Larsen, T. “A Portrait of America’s First Atheists” [review essay: Leigh Eric Schmidt, Village Atheists], Christianity Today, September 2016, pp. 71-73. Larsen, T. “A Pious Fiction” [review essay: John Henry Newman, Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert, ed. Sheridan Gilley], Books & Culture (July/August 2016), p. 37. Larsen, T. 2016 “Utilitarians in Love” [review essay: Sandra J. Paert, ed., F. A. Hayek, Hayek on Mill: The Mill-Taylor Friendship and Related Writings], Books & Culture (Jan/Feb 2016), pp. 8-9. Larsen, T. 2016 “Let Wheaton and other Christian colleges be Christian,” CNN: posted on-line on 11 January 2016 at www.cnn.com. Larsen, T. 2015 “Rival Attractions” [review: Michael R. Watts, The Dissenters: Volume III: The Crisis and Conscience of Nonconformity], Times Literary Supplement, 27 November 2015, p. 34. Larsen, T. 2015 “Mayfair Muslims” [review essay: Jamie Gilham, British Converts to Islam, 1850-1950], Books & Culture, September/October 2015, pp. 8-9. Larsen, T. 2015 “The Road to Rome. Starring Bob Hope” [review essay: Richard Zoglin, Hope: Entertainer of the Century], Books & Culture, May/June 2015, pp. 8-9. Larsen, T. 2015 “Look who’s not talking now”, Faith & Leadership (www.faithandleadership.com), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School. Posted 20 April 2015. Larsen, T. 2015 “Savages, Symbols and Riddles”, The Tablet, 21 February 2015, pp. 14-16. Larsen, T. 2015 “Losing My Religion” [review essay: Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Robert Elsmere, edited by Miriam Elizabeth Burstein], Books & Culture, Jan/Feb 2015, pp. 9-10. Larsen, T. 2014 “Foreword”, in Eileen Bebbington, A Patterned Life: Faith, History, and David Bebbington, Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2014.

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Larsen, T. 2014 “The Noah Sphinx” [review essay: David Gange, Dialogues with the Dead: Egyptology in British Culture and Religion, 1822-1922], Books & Culture, Sept/Oct 2014, p. 38. Larsen, T. 2014 “Cheerful Confidence after Christendom”, 9 Marks Journal, Fall 2014, pp. 8-10. (Also posted on-line at www.9marks.org ). Larsen, T. 2014 “Anthropology and Christianity”, OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for a Thinking World ( blog.oup.com ), posted on-line on 13 August 2014. Larsen, T. 2014 “Old Faithful”, Faith & Leadership (www.faithandleadership.com), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School. Posted 29 July 2014. Larsen, T. 2014 “Academic Divisions” [review essay: James Turner, Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Humanities], Books & Culture, July/August 2014, p. 14. Larsen, T. 2014 “The Human Bonhoeffer” [lead review essay: Charles Marsh, Strange Glory: The Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer], Christianity Today, May 2014, pp. 53-44. Larsen, T. 2014 “For the Persistent Ph.D. Impulse, Gentle Dissuasion”, Chronicle of Higher Education, posted on-line 31 March 2014. Larsen, T. and Reagles, D. 2014 “Winston Churchill and Almighty God”, Historically Speaking, 14, 5 (November 2013), pp. 8-10. [actual publication date: March 2014] Larsen, T. 2014 “The Science of the Sermon” [review essay: Robert H. Ellison (ed.), A New History of the Sermon: The Nineteenth Century], Books & Culture (March/April 2014), p. 21. Larsen, T. 2014 “What is Christianity?” in Gary M. Burge and David Lauber (eds), Theology Questions Everyone Asks: Christian Faith in Plain Language, Downers Grove: IVP Academic. Larsen, T. and McNutt, J. 2013 “The Reformation and Protestantism”, in Jerry Pattengale, Lawrence Schiffman and Filip Vukosavovic (eds), The Book of Books: Biblical Canon, Dissemination and Its People, Jerusalem: Bible Lands Museum. Larsen, T. 2013 “Is there an expert in the house?”, Faith & Leadership (www.faithandleadership.com), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School, posted 2 December 2013. Larsen, T. 2013 “War Work” [review essay: Peter Mandler, Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War], Books & Culture, September/October 2013, p. 16.

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Larsen, T. 2013 “Why is history important for Christian leadership?”, Faith & Leadership (www.faithandleadership.com), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School, posted 7 May 2013. Larsen, T. 2013 “Stark’s Sampler. Church History for the Chronically Misinformed” [review essay: Rodney Stark, The Triumph of Christianity], Books & Culture, January/February 2013, pp. 25-26. Larsen, T. 2013 “The Quest for the Perfect Atheist” [review of Susan Jacoby, The Great Agnostic], Christianity Today, posted on-line 30 January 2013. Larsen, T. 2012 “How to Survive the Titanic: A Fate Worse Than Death” [review essay: Frances Wilson: How To Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay], Books & Culture, web exclusive, posted on-line 2 November 2012. Larsen, T. 2012 “Religion is wasted on the young”, Faith & Leadership (www.faithandleadership.com), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School, posted 11 September 2012. Larsen, T. 2012 “Sacred Texts” [review essay: Charles LaPorte, Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible], Books & Culture (May/June 2012), pp. 37-38. Larsen, T. 2012 “The Accidental Author: Missionaries, Ruth Graham, and Beyond”, Christian Post, posted on-line 22 March 2012. Larsen, T. 2012 “Civilization: The West and the Rest” [Book Note on Niall Ferguson, Civilization], Books & Culture, web exclusive, posted on-line, 8 March 2012. Larsen, T. 2012 “A Model for Letting Go of Vanity”, The United Methodist Reporter, 16 January 2012. Larsen, T. 2011 Bloomsbury Blood, London: Ecclesiastical History Society. (This is a murder mystery novel which was published electronically on the society’s website: www.history.ac.uk/ehsoc/content/about-ehs ) Larsen, T. 2011 “Evangelicals, the Bible, and the Early Church: A Response to Michael W. Graves”, in George Kalantzis and Andrew Tooley (eds), Evangelicals in the Early Church, Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2012 [actually publication date: October 2011]. Larsen, T. 2011 “Blind Spots: Reading History in the Good Society”, Comment (Fall 2011), pp. 53-56. Larsen, T. 2011 “A Lucky Calvinist” [review essay: Dick Van Dyke, My Lucky Life – In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir], Books & Culture (November/December 2011), p. 31.

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Larsen, T. 2011 “The Bible and the Victorians: An Interview with Timothy Larsen”, Historically Speaking, XII, 4 (September 2011), pp. 7-9. Larsen, T. 2011 “When the KJV was King”, Faith & Leadership (www.faithandleadership.com), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School, posted 27 September 2011. Larsen, T. 2011 “The Music of the Titanic” (Book Note on Steve Turner, The Band that Played On), Books & Culture, web exclusive, posted on-line, 24 June 2011. Larsen, T. 2011 “The Liner: The elusive romance of another time” [review essay: Philip Dawson, The Liner: Retrospective and Renaissance.] Books & Culture, web exclusive posted on-line 13 May 2011. Larsen, T. 2011 “Out of Egypt” [review essay: Anthony Sattin, A Winter on the Nile: Florence Nightingale, Gustave Flaubert and the Temptations of Egypt], Books & Culture (May/June 2011), p. 24. Larsen, T. 2011 “Victorian Studies” [poem], First Things, (May 2011), p. 65. Larsen, T. 2011 “I Didn’t Hear It on NPR”, World, 9 April 2011. Larsen, T. 2011 “You’re so vain”, Faith & Leadership (www.faithandleadership.com), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School, posted 15 March 2011. Larsen, T. 2011 “Why We Said No”, Inside Higher Ed (insidehighered.com), posted 16 February 2011. Larsen, T. 2011 “More relevant than thou”, Faith & Leadership (www.faithandleadership.com), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School, posted 25 January 2011. Larsen, T. 2011 “Faith Under Fire” [review essay: Jonathan H. Ebel, Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War.] Books & Culture (January/February 2011), p. 9. Larsen, T. 2011 “The KJV Endureth: The 400th anniversary”, Christian Century, 11 January 2011, pp. 12-13. Larsen, T. 2010 “Participant Observer” [review essay: George W. Stocking, Stocking, Jr. Glimpses into My Own Black Box: An Exercise in Self-Deconstruction], Books & Culture, web exclusive posted on-line 16 November 2010. Larsen, T. 2010 “Make It New” [review essay: Cathy Gere, Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism], Books & Culture (Sept/Oct 2010), p. 19.

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Larsen, T. 2010 “No Christianity Please, We’re Academics”, Inside Higher Ed (insidehighered.com), posted 30 July 2010. Republished as “Stop turning the other cheek”, The Times Higher (www.timeshighereducation.co.uk), posted 3 August 2010. Larsen, T. 2010 “A posthumous book of essays by Clifford Geertz” [Book Note on Clifford Geertz, Among the Anthros and Other Essays], Books & Culture, web exclusive, posted 22 June 2010. Larsen, T. 2010 “Oxford Anthropology in Gossipy Retrospect” [Book Note on Peter Riviére , ed., A History of Oxford Anthropology], Books & Culture, web exclusive, posted 3 June 2010. Larsen, T. 2010 “Who are you without Google?”, Faith & Leadership (www.faithandleadership.com), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School. Posted 11 May 2010. (Part of this piece was reprinted as “The Importance of Scripture Memorization”, Preaching Today [PreachingToday.com], posted 25 June 2010.) Larsen, T. 2010 “Synoptic Sisters” [review essay: Janet Sockice, The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels; David Cornick and Clyde Binfield (eds), From Cambridge to Sinai: The worlds of Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson], Books & Culture (May/June 2010), pp. 24-25. Larsen, T. 2010 “Overcorrection: Evangelicals and Sports in Victorian Britain” [Book Note on Dominic Erdozain, The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion], Books & Culture, web exclusive, posted 8 April 2010. Larsen, T. 2010 “Imagine There’s No Christendom” [review essay: Hugh McLeod, The Religious Crisis of the 1960s], Books & Culture (March/April 2010), pp. 20-21. Larsen, T. 2009 “It’s Christmas. Time to break out the Santa figurine”, Faith & Leadership (www.faithandleadership.com), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School. Posted 22 December 2009. 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.

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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, 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, web exclusive 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.

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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: https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/2008/august/victorian-skeptics-on-road-to-damascus.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

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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). CURRENT SCHOLARLY PROJECTS, CONFERENCES, AND PRESENTATIONS current scholarly projects: The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions. This is a series of five edited volumes which is under contract with Oxford University Press. Mark Noll and I are the General Editors. I was the co-editor with Michael Ledger-Lomas for volume 3 (The Nineteenth Century), which has already been published (in 2017), as have volumes 2 and 5 (in 2018). Spiritual Lives Series. I am the sole General Editor of this new series with Oxford University Press. It is comprised of book-length biographies of prominent figures not primarily known for religion. It will highlight the religious intersects of their life and work. Three volumes have already been published, including Timothy Larsen, John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life. A half dozen or so more volumes are currently contracted. The Oxford Handbook to Christmas. I have been contracted by Oxford University Press to be the editor of this volume. It is a large undertaking (46 chapters). I have agreed to write the chapter on Christmas in the nineteenth century. The submission date for the whole volume is February 2021. I have agreed to co-convene a conference in honor of David Bebbington on the theme, “Evangelicals and the Bible”, to be held at Baylor University, 19-20 September 2019, to present a research paper of my own “Liberal Evangelicalism and the Bible”, and to edit the resulting volume, Evangelicals and the Bible in Historical Perspective. plenary conference papers, convening conferences, collaborations, and presentations:

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External Reader for Elizabeth Mary Davis, “Reading with our Foresisters: Aguilar, King, McAuley and Schimmelpennick – Early Nineteenth-Century Women Interpret Scripture in New Ways for New Times”, ThD, Regis College, 2018 (oral defence on 9 November 2018). I gave the keynote address, “The Liberal Arts, General Education, and the Idea of a University”, at the Fall Faculty Workshop, Valparaiso University, 16 August 2018. I was a fully-funded participant and respondent to Michael Root, “Did Reginald Pole Argue for a Lutheran Understanding of Justification at the Council of Trent?”, at the annual Boston College Colloquy in Historical Theology, Boston College, 4-8 August 2018. “The Theological World of the Reverend John Ames.” I gave this paper at the conference “Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson”, 5-6 April 2018, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. I was also the co-convener and coordinator of this conference. The keynote speakers were Marilynne Robinson and Rowan Williams. Respondent for the session, “Testing Ecclesiastical-Civil Boundaries in Educational Spaces: Case Studies from Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America”, at the American Society of Church History annual meeting, Washington DC, 5 January 2018. I was the second reader on following PhD dissertation: Susanne Calhoun, “Proclaiming the Divine Unity: God and Order in Victorian Britain”, PhD in Historical Theology, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, 1 December 2017 (the oral defence). “Joseph Ratzinger on the Nativity of Our Lord: Protestants and Catholics Reunite for Christmas.” I have gave this invited, funded, paper at the symposium, “Joseph Ratzinger and the Healing of the Reformation-Era Divisions,” Mundelein Seminary, 20 October 2017. “John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University and Christian Colleges in the Twenty-First Century.” I gave this invited, plenary paper at the “State of the Evangelical Mind” conference sponsored by Indiana Wesleyan University, Indianapolis, 21-22 September 2017. “Congregationalists and Crucicentrism.” I have this invited, funded, plenary paper at the “Evangelicalism and Dissent” conference, Dr Williams’s Library, London, 20 May 2017. “George MacDonald and the Victorian Crisis of Doubt.” I have this invited, plenary paper for the “Moments in Dissent” conference, Regent’s Park College, Oxford, 18 May 2017. There was a also a book launch at this conference for my Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century.

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I gave the Womack Lectures at Methodist University, Fayetteville, North Carolina, on 17 March 2017. The first lecture was “Secularization and Religious Decline” and the second was “The Bible and Western Civilization”. Sole keynote speaker for the annual Arts and Humanities Symposium, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, 17 February 2017. My keynote address was: “John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University and Christian Colleges in the Twenty-First Century.” I was keynote and sole guest speaker for the annual Day of Learning, Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa,15 February 2017. On this day, the entire college – students and faculty members – attend to a common program. I participated in a series of panels and discussions, as well as giving the keynote address: “On the Idea of a Christian College.” “George MacDonald and the Crisis of Doubt.” I gave this lecture on 2 February 2017 as the second of a series titled, “The Rose Fire: George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles”, for the Hansen Lectures, the Wade Center, Wheaton College. “George MacDonald in the Age of the Incarnation.” I gave this lecture on 1 December 2016 as the first of a series titled, “The Rose Fire: George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles”, for the Hansen Lectures, the Wade Center, Wheaton College. “The Dependence of Sociocultural Anthropology on Theological Anthropology.” I gave this paper at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 16 November 2016, Minneapolis. I was the respondent on the panel, “Writing Religious Biographies of Women”, at the Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, 20-22 October 2016, Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia. “George MacDonald in the Age of the Incarnation.” I gave this invited, plenary lecture at the biennial meeting of the George MacDonald Society, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 20-22 July 2016. I was the sole external, plenary speaker for the Assemblies of God Faculty Conference, 21-23 June 2016. My two addresses were, “How Bible Reading Saves Western Civilization,” and “Are Faith and Science in Conflict?” “The Future of the Study of the History of Christianity.” I have this paper at a symposium held by the History Department, Baylor University, 27 April 2016. “The History of Anthropologists and Religious Belief.” Research Seminar on Anthropological Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 11 March 2016. “How Bible Reading Saved Civilization.” King Institute for Faith and Culture Lecture Series, King University, Bristol, Tennessee, 1 February 2016.

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“Are Faith and Science in Conflict?” Convocation, King University, Bristol, Tennessee, 1 February 2016. “Author Meets Critic: Anthropologists Respond to Timothy Larsen’s The Slain God”. I was the respondent at this panel about my work. American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Denver, 18-22 November 2015. Invited Collaborator for a John Templeton Foundation-supported project, “Theologically-Engaged Anthropology: What Can Theology Contribute to Cultural Anthropology and Ethnography?” I gave a research paper titled, “The Dependence of Cultural Anthropology on Theological Anthropology”. University of Georgia, Atlanta, 20-22 September 2015. I was the external reader at the defence of an MA thesis in Church History, Michael P. Ellingsen, “Dragoman Doctor of Divinity: William McClure Thomson, Early Biblical Archaeology, and Nineteenth-Century Conceptions of the Near East in America, 1832-1894,” Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, 30 July 2015. I gave an invited lecture entitled “The Bible and the Victorians” in the Contextual Lecture Series to a sold-out, paying audience, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 19 May 2015. I gave a public lecture on “The Bible in the Nineteenth Century” at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, on 20 May 2015. The Bible, Narrative and Modernity Symposium, sponsored by the English Department and Religion and Literature, Notre Dame University, 26-28 March 2015. I was one of two keynote lecturers for this event. My lecture was “The Bible and the Victorians Beyond Belief”. I also co-led a workshop for graduate students and was on two faculty roundtable panels. “Victor Turner, Anthropology, and Christianity”: I gave this paper at the colloquium of the Religious Studies Department, Northwestern University, 7 May 2014. I gave an invited, public lecture, “A People of One Book: A Bible-Saturated Century”, for the Passages Bible Museum Lectures Series Green Scholars Initiative, Springfield, Missouri, 22 April 2014. I gave a paper entitled “Anthropologists and Missionaries” at the first ever joint meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society and the American Society of Church History, Oxford, England, 3-5 April 2014. I gave an invited paper at the main, unifying seminar for all anthropologists at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University entitled, “Victor Turner, Anthropology, and Christianity”, 7 February 2014.

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I gave an invited lecture, “The War between Science and Faith?”, for the American Scientific Affiliation, Wheaton, Illinois, 23 January 2014. I was the Chair for the session, “Evangelicalism in Modern Britain Turns 25: Re-examining David Bebbington’s ‘Quadrilateral’ Thesis’”, American Society of Church History, Washington DC, 3 January 2014. This session was funded by the Maclellan Foundation. I gave an invited, plenary, keynote address, “The Bible and Belief in Victorian Britain”, as the Jane Stedman Lecturer at the annual conference of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Cleveland, Ohio, 12-14 April 2013. The theme for the conference was “Victorian Belief / Victorian Doubt”. External Examiner for Robert Lewis Knetsch, “The Theological Reception of the Book of Isaiah in the Nineteenth-Century Church of England”, PhD thesis, Wycliffe College, Toronto, 2013. (Oral Defence: 21 March 2013). “Frazer, Anthropology and the Bible”. I was fully funded to be consultant for the Bible and Antiquity in the Nineteenth Century Project, University of Cambridge, for a week and to give this invited, plenary paper at its “Anthropology and Religion in the Nineteenth Century” conference, 14 March 2013. My respondent was David Maxwell, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge. “American Evangelicalism.” I gave this lecture to the annual consultation of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the World Evangelical Alliance, Wheaton, Illinois, 18 October 2012. “The Victorian Crisis of Doubt.” I gave this invited, plenary paper at the conference “The Cross and the Book: Sacred and Secular in the Age of Browning”, Baylor University, 20 September 2012. “J. G Frazer, Anthropology, and Christianity”. I gave this paper at the Themes in Religious History Seminar, Oxford University, 28 May 2012. “J. G. Frazer, Anthropology, and Christianity.” I gave this paper at the Modern Religious History Seminar, University of London, London, 9 May 2012. “British Social Anthropologists and the Christian Faith.” I gave this presentation at the Visiting Fellows Colloquium, All Souls College, Oxford University, 1 May 2012. Together with Keith Johnson, I co-convened a conference on “Bonhoeffer, Christ, and Culture,” Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, 12-14 April 2012. I also gave a plenary paper, “Bonhoeffer’s Reception by Evangelicals.” “How Bible Reading Saved Civilization”. I gave this invited, public lecture for the Passages Bible Museum Lectures Series, Green Scholars Initiative, Atlanta, 31 January 2012.

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“E. B. Tylor Anthropology: British Christianity and Savages.” I presented this paper at the American Society of Church History annual conference, Chicago, 6 January 2012. I gave a plenary paper on “The KJV in Nineteenth-Century Britain” at the KJV@400 conference, Dunham Bible Museum, Houston Baptist University, 28-29 October 2011. I was the keynote speaker for the Southwest Christianity and Literature conference, Hardin Simmons University, Abilene, Texas, 29 Sept. – 1 Oct. 2011. The theme of the conference was, “Honest Doubt and Questing Faith.” I delivered a plenary lecture, “The Victorian Crisis of Doubt”, and the banquet address, “The Bible in Victorian Culture”, as well as participating in the concluding panel. I gave the W. Stanford Reid Lectures, Tyndale University College and Seminary, Toronto, 28 September 2011. The first lecture was a defence of the discipline of history and the evening lecture was on the Bible in western culture. I was the speaker for a special session on my monograph A People of One Book at “The King James Bible and the World It Made, 1611-2011” conference, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 7-9 April 2011. I was a chair and respondent for the panel, “The Near East and American Missions”, at the Conference on Faith and History, George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, 7-8 October 2010. “Mary Carpenter, Unitarian Education, and Biblical Lands”. I gave this plenary paper at the annual conference of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association, 23-25 April 2010, University of Iowa, Iowa City. “Evangelicals, the Bible, and the Early Church: A Response.” I gave this invited, plenary contribution at the founding annual gathering of the Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies, 18 March 2010. “Re-thinking the Conflict between Faith and Science: A Historian’s Perspective”. I gave this invited, public lecture at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, on 28 January 2010. I was invited, fully funded panellist and chair at the “American Religion in a Post-Secular Society” conference, sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture, and the Department of Religious Studies, Michigan State University, 30-31 October 2009. I gave the annual, endowed Murray Lectures at Crandall University, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, 19-20 October 2009, on the theme of faith and doubt.

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I received full funding from the organizers to present a paper on “The Victorian Crisis of Doubt” at a major conference entitled “Secularization and Revival: The Fate of Religion in Modern Intellectual History”, Baylor University, Waco, Texas,8-10 October 2009. I led 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. (A volume arising from this conference with my paper in it has since been published by Cambridge University Press.) 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. 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 co-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 Carolyn and Fred McManis Chair of Christian 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. “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.

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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. “Good Book and Holy Land: Historical Perspectives on Anglo-American Christians’ Critical Engagement with the Bible and the Middle East”. This was a collaborative project, 2007-09. My primary collaborators were Stephen Alter, Thomas Kidd, and Sarah Miglio. It was been awarded a $15,000 grant from the CCCU Initiative Program. 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”. 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. $5,450 Aldeen Grant awarded in March 2006 in order to facilitate my 2007 Sabbatical work on “A People of One Book: Religion and the Victorians”.

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“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, 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. 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”. 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. 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

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Timothy George, John Webster, Mark Noll, Gerald Bray, Christopher Hall, and Pamela Bright. “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. 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. 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

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Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) on the theme of “Biblical Theology”, Bethel Theological Seminary, 16-17 March 1990.