About the Authors

Nadya Williams Nadya Williams received her Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University, and is Professor of Ancient History at the University of West Georgia.

Philip Jenkins is Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor University, and is based there in the Institute for Studies of Religion. His most recent book is The Many Faces of Christ: The Thousand-Year Story of the Survival and Influence of the Lost Gospels (Basic Books, 2015).

Agnes Howard teaches at Christ College, the honors college of Valparaiso University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Her writing has appeared in Commonweal, First Things, The Cresset, and other publications.

Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard is Professor of History and the Humanities at Valparaiso University, where he holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics. He is the author of several books, including Religion and the Rise of Historicism (Cambridge, 2000); Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University (Oxford, 2006), winner of the Lilly Fellows Program Book Annual Award, 2007; and God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide (Oxford, 2011), winner of a Christianity Today Book of the Year Award.

Beth Allison Barr is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in History at Baylor University, and a Resident Scholar at Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion. Her research focuses on women and gender identity in medieval and early modern English sermons, as well as how the Reformation era affected women in Christianity. She is the author of The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England (Boydell, 2008) and editor of The Acts of the Apostles: Four Centuries of Baptist Interpretation. Her publications also include chapters in A Companion to Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages and The King James Bible and the World It Made and articles in Fourteenth Century England, The Journal of Religious History, and Church History and Religious Culture. Her current book projects include Women in English Sermons 1381-1625 and Because of Her Sex: A History of Women in the English Church. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004, and has been happily married to a youth pastor since 1997. You can follow her on Twitter @bethallisonbarr.

Christopher Gehrz is Professor of History at Bethel University (St. Paul, MN). Trained at Yale University (PhD, 2002) in European and international history, he teaches courses on 19th/20th century Europe, the two World Wars, and the Cold War and is the co-author of Bethel at War, 1914-2014: A Digital History of a Christian College in a Century of Warfare. He has also edited or written three books on Pietism, including The Pietist Option: Hope for the Renewal of Christianity. Chris is currently researching a “spiritual, but not religious” biography of aviator Charles Lindbergh. He blogs regularly at The Pietist Schoolman and can be followed on Twitter at @cgehrz.

Kristin Du Mez teaches at Calvin College, where she serves as chair of the History Department and as a member of the Gender Studies faculty. She holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Notre Dame, and her areas of specialization include women and gender in the history of American Christianity, with a particular focus on progressive Methodist women. Her first book, A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism (Oxford, 2015), traces the remarkable life and innovative theology of Katharine Bushnell (1855-1946), a Methodist social reformer, feminist theologian, and anti-trafficking activist. Kristin is currently writing a religious history of Hillary Rodham Clinton. You can follow her on Twitter @kkdumez.

James Bratt is a professor of history emeritus at Calvin University, where he taught courses on early America, U.S. cultural and religious history, and (his favorite) film noir. He received his PhD from Yale University (1978) for a dissertation that became his first book, Dutch Calvinism in Modern America (Eerdmans, 1984), and he published numerous additional essays on Dutch American history. From there, he wrote the definitive English-language biography of the eminent Dutch theologian and politician Abraham Kuyper (Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat – Eerdmans, 2013). His current project builds on his critical anthology, Antirevivalism in Antebellum America (Rutgers, 2005), to ask when the Second Great Awakening died, why, and what replaced it. He has received three Fulbright grants, taught for a year at Xiamen University in China, and tries to keep up with four adult children and seven grandchildren.
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