Grant Wacker | |
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 Grant Wacker at the 2016 colloquium Mormonism in the Academy | |
| Born | Grant Albert Wacker 1945 (age 78–79) |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Katherine Wacker |
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| Thesis | Augustus H. Strong (1978) |
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| Sub-discipline | History of Christianity in the United States |
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Grant Albert Wacker (born 1945) is an American historian of Christianity in the United States.
Wacker is a graduate of Stanford University (BA, philosophy, 1972) and of Harvard University (PhD, religion, 1978).
Grant Wacker is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Christian History at Duke Divinity School. He taught in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1977 to 1992. In 1992 he joined the faculty of Duke Divinity School, where he taught until he partly retired in 2015 and fully retired in 2018. [1] [2] A specialist in American Christian history, Wacker is the author or co-editor of nine books, including Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture (Harvard University Press, 2001), [3] America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation (Harvard University Press, 2014), [4] One Soul at a Time: The Story of Billy Graham (Eerdmans, 2019), [5] and more than two-hundred published articles, essays, and book reviews. He is past president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, past president of the American Society of Church History, [6] a former senior editor of Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, and a senior trustee of Fuller Theological Seminary. He is an advisory editor of The Christian Century and Religion and American Culture . [7] [8] [9] Along with three teaching awards, he directed twenty-six doctoral students at UNC or Duke. [10]
Wacker is an active lay member of First United Methodist Church in Cary, N.C., where he lives with his wife, Katherine Wacker.
The Third Great Awakening refers to a historical period proposed by William G. McLoughlin that was marked by religious activism in American history and spans the late 1850s to the early 20th century. It influenced pietistic Protestant denominations and had a strong element of social activism. It gathered strength from the postmillennial belief that the Second Coming of Christ would occur after mankind had reformed the entire Earth. It was affiliated with the Social Gospel movement, which applied Christianity to social issues and gained its force from the awakening, as did the worldwide missionary movement. New groupings emerged, such as the Holiness movement and Nazarene and Pentecostal movements, and also Jehovah's Witnesses, Spiritualism, Theosophy, Thelema, and Christian Science. The era saw the adoption of a number of moral causes, such as the abolition of slavery and prohibition.
Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry was an American evangelical Christian theologian who provided intellectual and institutional leadership to the neo-evangelical movement in the mid-to-late 20th century. He was ordained in 1942 after graduating from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and went on to teach and lecture at various schools and publish and edit many works surrounding the neo-evangelical movement. His early book, The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism (1947), was influential in calling evangelicals to differentiate themselves from separatist fundamentalism and claim a role in influencing the wider American culture. He was involved in the creation of numerous major evangelical organizations that contributed to his influence in Neo-evangelicalism and lasting legacy, including the National Association of Evangelicals, Fuller Theological Seminary, Evangelical Theological Society, Christianity Today magazine, and the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies. The Carl F. H. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity International University seek to carry on his legacy. His ideas about Neo-evangelism are still debated to this day and his legacy continues to inspire change in American social and political culture.
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Edward John Carnell was a prominent Christian theologian and apologist, was an ordained Baptist pastor, and served as President of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He was the author of nine major books, several of which attempted to develop a fresh outlook in Christian apologetics. He also wrote essays that were published in several other books, and was a contributor of articles to periodicals such as The Christian Century and Christianity Today.
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The Centre for the Study of World Christianity (CSWC) is a research centre based in New College, the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. It was founded in the University of Aberdeen by Andrew F. Walls as the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World in 1982, but later moved by Walls to the University of Edinburgh in 1986. Its current name was adopted in 2009. The centre is currently directed by Alexander Chow and Emma Wild-Wood.
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