George Marsden

George Marsden
George Marsden
Born	George Mish Marsden; February 25, 1939; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US
Spouse	Lucie Commeret (m. 1969)
Academic background
Alma mater	Yale University; Westminster Theological Seminary; Haverford College;
Thesis	The New School Presbyterian Mind (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Sydney E. Ahlstrom
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	American history; history of Christianity; intellectual history;
Institutions	Calvin College; Duke University; University of Notre Dame;
Doctoral students	Diana Butler Bass; Matthew Grow; Thomas S. Kidd; Steven Nolt; Rick Ostrander;
Main interests	American evangelicalism
Notable works	Jonathan Edwards: A Life (2003)

George Mish Marsden (born 1939) is an American historian who has written extensively on the interaction between Christianity and American culture, particularly on Christianity in American higher education and on American evangelicalism. He is best known for his award-winning biography of the New England clergyman Jonathan Edwards, a prominent theologian of Colonial America.

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