Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard is a Professor of History and the Humanities at
Valparaiso University, Indiana.[1] He formerly directed the Center for Faith and Inquiry and was Professor of History at
Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts.[citation needed] He completed his MA (1992) and Ph.D. (1996) at the
University of Virginia, concentrating in modern European intellectual and religious history. He is founding director of
Gordon College's honors program, the Jerusalem and Athens Forum,[2] a one-year, great-books course of study in the history of
Christian thought and literature. He served as a principal grant writer and project director of a multimillion-dollar project funded by the
Lilly Endowment, entitled "Critical Loyalty: Christian Vocation at Gordon College."[3]
Books
Authored
He is the author of Religion and the Rise of Historicism;[4]Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University;[5] winner of the annual Lilly Fellows Program Book Award, 2007;[6] and God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide;[7] winner of the Christianity Today Book Awards, 2012.[8]
Edited
He is editor of Mark Noll and James Turner, The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue,[9] and Russell Hittinger, John Behr, and C. Ben Mitchell, Imago Dei: Human Dignity in Ecumenical Perspective.[10]
Forthcoming
Currently, he is working on three books: The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age (
Oxford University Press, forthcoming); Remembering the Reformation: An Inquiry into the Meanings of Protestantism (
Oxford University Press, forthcoming); and, edited with Mark Noll, Protestantism after 500 Years? (
Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
^Howard, T. A. (2008). "Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England. By Timothy Larsen". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 76: 205–207.
doi:
10.1093/jaarel/lfm107.