Tal Howard, professor of history at Gordon College, will speak on Tuesday, January 28 on the topic, “Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University.” His lecture will be in Gibson Hall 242 at 3:30 p.m. and is open to the public.
Professor Howard is director of the Center for Faith and Inquiry at Gordon College. He is also founding director of the Jerusalem and Athens Forum, a great books honors program in the history of Christian thought and literature. He is the author of numerous books and other publications, including Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University (Oxford, 2006) which won the Lilly Fellows Program Book Award in 2007, and most recently, God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide (Oxford, 2011), winner of a Christianity Today book of the year award in 2012.