Notre Dame’s History Department
According to Christianity Today, George Marsden will be retiring from Notre Dame’s history department, and Mark Noll will be leaving Wheaton’s history department to replace him. Both Marsden and Noll are well-known evangelical historians, and both will have ended up on Notre Dame’s faculty. I’ve been half-seriously considering Notre Dame for further study, so this is an interesting development . . .
Posted 10 Feb. 2006 at 1:01 pm | Permalink
Ah, yes it is interesting. However, there has also been a rumor that Noll is going to convert.
Posted 10 Feb. 2006 at 2:09 pm | Permalink
Really? What is your source? The CT article mentions that Noll has been “active in dialogue between Catholics and Protestants,” but I didn’t know he was considering converting.
Noll wouldn’t be the first historian/philosopher from Wheaton to convert to Catholicism. Joshua Hochschild, a professor of medieval philosophy, was fired from Wheaton for converting to Catholicism. He was a graduate of Notre Dame, a convert to evangelicalism as an adult, and then converted to Catholicism (Christianity Today; Chicago Sun-Times; National Review).
Posted 10 Feb. 2006 at 3:03 pm | Permalink
Yeah, that one made a bit of a splash on Mirror of Justice. It seemed especially relevent since Notre Dame is going through a bit of the “religious identity vs. academic freedom” angst itself right now.
Posted 17 Feb. 2006 at 12:55 pm | Permalink
I read a book last semester (God on the Quad) which included a chapter on Notre Dame’s academic freedom crisis. It was a very enlightening book. It also included a chapter on BJU, which was unusually objective.
Posted 25 Feb. 2006 at 9:42 am | Permalink
If you end up at ND, let me know. I’ll have to go home some time, and I am sure that my mom would hook us up with some good eats. South Bend is a great place to live, as long as you don’t mind the snow.
Posted 27 Feb. 2006 at 4:37 pm | Permalink
Woah… I’M at ND. Can I have some good eats?
Posted 28 Feb. 2006 at 9:50 am | Permalink
Snow? What snow? It has not snowed here more than an inch since December. I’ve only been sledding once.
I second Scott’s reccomendation of reading God on the Quad. It’s a provoking, and as he said, fair book which has helped me orient some of my thinking on my first (and soon to be) second alma maters.