Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard is a Professor of History and the Humanities at

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, Indiana. He formerly directed the Center for Faith and Inquiry and was Professor of History at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. He completed his MA (1992) and Ph.D. (1996) at the

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, concentrating in modern European intellectual and religious history. He is founding director of Gordon College's honors program, the Jerusalem and Athens Forum, a one-year, great-books course of study in the history of Christian thought and literature. He served as principal grant writer and project director of a multimillion-dollar project funded by the Lilly Endowment, entitled "Critical Loyalty: Christian Vocation at Gordon College."

Books

Authored

He is the author of ''Religion and the Rise of Historicism''; ''Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University''; winner of the annual Lilly Fellows Program Book Award, 2007; and ''God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide''; winner of the Christianity Today Book Awards, 2012.

Edited

He is editor of Mark Noll and James Turner, ''The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue'', and Russell Hittinger, John Behr, and C. Ben Mitchell, ''Imago Dei: Human Dignity in Ecumenical Perspective''.

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'' (

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, forthcoming); ''Remembering the Reformation: An Inquiry into the Meanings of Protestantism'' (

, forthcoming); and, edited with Mark Noll, ''Protestantism after 500 Years?'' (

, forthcoming).

Articles and essays

His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals, including the ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Historically Speaking'', ''Pro Ecclesia'', ''

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'', ''Journal of the History of Ideas'', ''History of Universities'', ''

Fides et Historia ''Fides et Historia'' is a semi-annual peer-reviewed academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which Scholarly method, scholarship relating to a particular list of academic disciplines, academic dis ...

'', ''The Christian Scholar's Review'', ''Hedgehog Review'', ''

The National Interest ''The National Interest'' (''TNI'') is an American bimonthly international relations magazine edited by American journalist Jacob Heilbrunn and published by the Center for the National Interest, a public policy think tank based in Washington, ...

'', ''

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'', '' Journal of Church and State'', '' The Cresset'', ''

Christian Century ''The Christian Century'' is a Christian magazine based in Chicago, Illinois. Considered the flagship magazine of US mainline Protestantism, the monthly reports on religious news; comments on theological, moral, and cultural issues; and review ...

'', ''

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'', ''

First Things ''First Things'' (''FT'') is an ecumenical and conservative religious journal aimed at "advanc nga religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society". The magazine, which focuses on theology, liturgy, church history, religious ...

'', and ''Books & Culture''.

Fellowships and lectures

In 2003-04, he was a Senior Carey Fellow in the Erasmus Institute at the

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. He has also spent considerable time teaching and researching outside the

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, particularly in

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, and

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. He has held fellowships from the

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, the Pew Charitable Trust, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, the

John Templeton foundation The John Templeton Foundation (Templeton Foundation) is a philanthropic organization that reflects the ideas of its founder, John Templeton, who became wealthy via a career as a contrarian investor, and wanted to support progress in religious ...

, the Lilly Fellows Program in the Humanities and the Arts at

, and the German Academic Exchange. He has given invited lectures at

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, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, and elsewhere.

References

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