David N. Hempton

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ISBN 041555571X
  • The Religion of the People: Methodism and Popular Religion C. 1750–1900 (1996) ISBN   0415077141
  • Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire (1996) ISBN   0521479258
  • Methodism: Empire of the Spirit, winner of the Jesse Lee Prize [8] (2005) ISBN   0300119763
  • Evangelical Disenchantment: Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt (2008) ISBN   030014282X
  • The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century, winner of the Albert C. Outler Prize [9] (2011) ISBN   184511440X
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    David N. Hempton

    Born
    David Neil Hempton

    (1952-02-19) February 19, 1952 (age 71)
    Northern Ireland
    TitleHarvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School
    Academic background
    Alma mater
    Academic offices
    Preceded byDean of Harvard Divinity School
    2012–2023
    Succeeded by