Mark David Hall | |
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| Born | February 22, 1966 |
| Alma mater | Wheaton College (IL) (BA) University of Virginia (PhD) |
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| Fields | Politics |
| Institutions | Regent University (2023-present) George Fox University (2001-2023) East Central University (1993-2001) |
| Website | www |
Mark David Hall (born 22 February 1966) [1] is a professor in Regent University's Robertson School of Government and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy, an initiative of the First Liberty Institute. Mark is also Distinguished Scholar of Christianity & Public Life at George Fox University, a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, and a Senior Fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion. In 2022-2023, he was a Garwood Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s James Madison Program and a Visiting Scholar at the Mercatus Center.
Hall is the author of a number of books on religion and politics in America. The majority of his research has been in religion in the American founding era. His most recent book, "Who's Afraid of Christian Nationalism? Why Christian Nationalism is Not an Existential Threat to America or the Christian Church" was published in April 2024.
Hall graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Wheaton College (IL) in 1988 [2] and received his Doctor of Philosophy in from the University of Virginia in 1993.
Before his 2023 hiring at Regent University, Hall taught at George Fox University (2001-2023) and at East Central University (1993-2001). His primary teaching fields are political theory, constitutional law, and religious liberty / church–state relations in America.
Hall's scholarly work is focused on issues of religion in the American founding era. In particular, his writing is often concerned with the perception that the Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state. Instead, he argues that there are good reasons to believe that many founders were influenced by orthodox Christianity and that virtually none of them favored anything approximating a contemporary understanding of a wall of separation. [3] Hall argues that the modern conception has negatively affected how the Supreme Court has interpreted the religion clauses of the First Amendment. [4]
Mark has served or is serving as an expert witness for the United States Department of Justice, the Alliance Defending Freedom, the State of Arkansas, and the Institute for Justice.
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