Grant Wacker
{{Short description|American historian of religion}}
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| sub_discipline = History of Christianity in the United States
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Grant Albert Wacker (born 1945) is an American historian of Christianity in the United States.
Education
Wacker is a graduate of Stanford University (BA, philosophy, 1972) and of Harvard University (PhD, religion, 1978).
Career
Grant Wacker is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Christian History at Duke Divinity School. He taught in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1977 to 1992. In 1992 he joined the faculty of Duke Divinity School, where he taught until he partly retired in 2015 and fully retired in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://divinity.duke.edu/academics/faculty/grant-wacker|title=Grant Wacker|work=duke.edu|accessdate=1 October 2015}}{{Cite web|url=https://divinity.duke.edu/events/retirement-lecture-reckoning-past-professor-grant-wacker|title=Retirement Lecture on 'Reckoning with the Past' by Professor Grant Wacker {{!}} Duke Divinity School|website=divinity.duke.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-01-12}} A specialist in American Christian history, Wacker is the author or co-editor of nine books, including Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture (Harvard University Press, 2001),{{cite web|url=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674011281|title=Heaven Below|work=harvard.edu|accessdate=1 October 2015}} America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation (Harvard University Press, 2014),{{cite web|url=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674052185|title=America's Pastor|work=harvard.edu|accessdate=1 October 2015}} One Soul at a Time: The Story of Billy Graham (Eerdmans, 2019),{{Cite web |title=One Soul at a Time - Grant Wacker : Eerdmans |url=https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/7472/one-soul-at-a-time.aspx |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=www.eerdmans.com}} and more than two-hundred published articles, essays, and book reviews. He is past president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, past president of the American Society of Church History,{{cite journal|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6082236&fileId=S0009640709990400|title=Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture - Billy Graham's America - Cambridge Journals Online|website=cambridge.org|date=September 2009 |volume=78 |issue=3 |pages=489–511 |doi=10.1017/S0009640709990400 |accessdate=1 October 2015 |last1=Wacker |first1=Grant |s2cid=162380291 |url-access=subscription }} a former senior editor of Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, and a senior trustee of Fuller Theological Seminary. He is an advisory editor of The Christian Century and Religion and American Culture.{{cite web |author=Grant Wacker |date=1 January 2015 |title=Grant Wacker: 'Unbroken' and Billy Graham - WSJ |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/grant-wacker-unbroken-and-billy-graham-1420156042 |accessdate=1 October 2015 |work=WSJ}}{{cite web |author=Grant Wacker |title=A Historian's Reckoning with the Past |url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/june-web-only/grant-wacker-historians-reckoning-with-past.html |accessdate=1 October 2015 |work=ChristianityToday.com|date=June 12, 2015 }} {{cite web|url=http://fuller.edu/offices/trustees/wacker,-grant/|title=Wacker, Grant :: Fuller|work=fuller.edu|accessdate=1 October 2015}} Along with three teaching awards, he directed twenty-six doctoral students at UNC or Duke.{{cite web|url=https://divinity.duke.edu/academics/faculty/grant-wacker|title=Grant Wacker|work=duke.edu|accessdate=4 June 2023}}
Personal life
Wacker is an active lay member of First United Methodist Church in Cary, N.C., where he lives with his wife, Katherine Wacker.
References
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External links
- [http://www.lifeway.com/churchleaders/2014/12/22/americas-pastor-an-interview-with-grant-wacker/ An interview with Grant Wacker] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212002554/http://www.lifeway.com/churchleaders/2014/12/22/americas-pastor-an-interview-with-grant-wacker/ |date=February 12, 2016 }}
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Category:American historians of religion
Category:American United Methodists
Category:Duke Divinity School faculty
Category:Harvard Divinity School alumni
Category:Presidents of the American Society of Church History
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty