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2008 H. Orton Wiley Lecture Series Schedule

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Presented by the Graduate Faculty of the School of Theology and Christian Ministry
Point Loma Nazarene University

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All lectures are FREE and presented primarily for the benefit of PLNU students and faculty. In addition, we welcome the general public, but we do ask the public to RSVP at (619) 849-2234.

 

All lectures will be PODCASTED and available to download or replay from this site, as soon after the series as possible.

 

“American Evangelicalism:
Past, Present, and Future”

Presented in 2-Parts:

Part 1:

Dr. George M. Marsden:

"American Evangelicalism: The Light of the Past on the Present and Future"

  • “The Wisdom of America’s Greatest Theologian,
    Jonathan Edwards, for Evangelicals Then and Now ”
    Thursday, Feb. 21, 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
    Crill Performance Hall

  •  “How ‘Otherworldly’ 20th- Century Evangelicalism
    Became a Political Power"
    Thursday, Feb. 21, 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
    Crill Performance Hall


  • "Evangelicals and Secular/Religious America:
    How We Got to Here and the Challenge for the Future”
    Friday, Feb. 22, 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
    Crill Performance Hall

Dr. Marsden is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana

He received his B.A. from Haverford College in 1959, a D.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1963, and an M.A. in 1960 and Ph.D. in 1965 from Yale University. His primary academic interests have been in the history of the interaction of Christianity and American culture. His major areas of study have concerned American evangelicalism and the role of Christianity in American higher education.

Before joining Notre Dame in 1992, Dr. Marsden taught at Calvin College, Duke University, the University of California at Berkeley, and St. Andrews University in Scotland.

He has published numerous works, such as:Fundamentalism and American Culture; Jonathan Edwards: A Life; The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship; The Soul of American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief; and Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism 


 

Part 2:

Dr. Stan Ingersol:

" A Nazarene Odyssey through Evangelical Seas"

  • “The Trajectory of Nazarene History”
    Monday, Feb. 25, 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
    Crill Performance Hall

  • “Past and Prospect: The Nazarene Future in Light of Its History”
    Tuesday, Feb. 26, 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
    Crill Performance Hall

 
Dr. Ingersol has been denominational archivist for the Church of the Nazarene since 1985.

The Nazarene archives, located at the Church’s international center in Kansas City, are the largest repository of material on the Nazarenes. 


A church historian by training, Dr. Ingersol is a graduate of Bethany Nazarene College, the University of Kansas, Nazarene Theological Seminary, and Duke University.

He is married to the Rev. Cheryl Somers-Ingersol, a United Methodist pastor in Overland Park, Kansas. They are the parents of two children, Rachel and Robert.