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Lecture from Dr. Mark Lilla on "The Powers That Be Are Ordained by God: The Bible as a Weapon in the American Revolution"

Mark Noll is Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame. Before that, he served jointly in Wheaton’s History Department and the Department of Biblical and Theological Studies. In 2006, he ended twenty-five years of service to Wheaton as McManis Professor of Christian Thought. While at Wheaton, Noll also co-founded (with Nathan Hatch) the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals. He graduated from Wheaton College (BA), the University of Iowa (MA), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (MA), and Vanderbilt University (PhD). Noll is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; in 2006, he received the National Endowment for the Humanities medal at a White House ceremony. A prolific scholar, Noll has authored or edited over 50 books, including the enormously influential The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994). His publications relevant to religion in American history include Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980s (1989); Protestants in America (2000); America's God, from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (2002); Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the Present, (2007); The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (2006); God and Race in American Politics: A Short History (2008); and In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783 (2015). His most recent book is America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794–1911 (2022).