Thomas Albert Howard
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Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard is a Professor of History and the Humanities at Valparaiso University, Indiana.http://thomasalberthoward.com He formerly directed the Center for Faith and Inquiry and was Professor of History at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} 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,{{cite web|url=http://www.gordon.edu/jaf|title=Jerusalem & Athens Forum|work=Gordon.edu|accessdate=2015-06-25}} 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."{{cite web|url=http://www.gordon.edu/criticalloyalty|title=Critical Loyalty Project|work=Gordon.edu|accessdate=2015-06-25}}
Books
= Authored =
He is the author of Religion and the Rise of Historicism;{{cite web|url=http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/european-history-after-1450/religion-and-rise-historicism-w-m-l-de-wette-jacob-burckhardt-and-theological-origins-nineteenth-century-historical-consciousness |title=Howard, Thomas Albert. Religion and the Rise of Historicism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. |publisher=Cambridge.org |date=2006-04-27 |accessdate=2015-06-25}} Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University;{{cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/protestant-theology-and-the-making-of-the-modern-german-university-9780199266852 |title=Howard, Thomas Albert. Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. |publisher=Global.oup.com |date= 27 April 2006|isbn=978-0-19-926685-2 |accessdate=2015-06-25}} winner of the annual Lilly Fellows Program Book Award, 2007;{{cite web|url=http://lillyfellows.org/GrantsPrizes/LFPBookAward/LFPBookAwardListPastWinners.aspx|title=Lilly Fellows Program > Grants & Prizes > LFP Book Award > LFP Book Award List: Past Winners|work=Lillyfellows.org|accessdate=2015-06-25|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407093529/http://lillyfellows.org/GrantsPrizes/LFPBookAward/LFPBookAwardListPastWinners.aspx|archivedate=2014-04-07}} and God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide;{{cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/god-and-the-atlantic-9780199565511 |title=Howard, Thomas Albert. God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. |publisher=Global.oup.com |date=2011-03-15 |isbn=978-0-19-956551-1 |accessdate=2015-06-25}} winner of the Christianity Today Book Awards, 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/january/2012-book-awards.html|title=2012 Christianity Today Book Awards|work=ChristianityToday.com|accessdate=2015-06-25}}
= Edited =
He is editor of Mark Noll and James Turner, The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue,{{cite web|url=http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/the-future-of-christian-learning/282351 |title=Noll, Mark A, James Turner, and Thomas Albert Howard. The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue. Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing Group, 2008. |publisher=Bakerpublishinggroup.com |date= |accessdate=2015-06-25}} and Russell Hittinger, John Behr, and C. Ben Mitchell, Imago Dei: Human Dignity in Ecumenical Perspective.{{cite web |url=http://cuapress.cua.edu/books/viewbook.cfm?book=HOID |title=Imago Dei: Human Dignity in Ecumenical Perspective, Edited by Thomas Albert Howard. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press. |publisher=Cuapress.cua.edu |date=2011-09-19 |accessdate=2015-06-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150613160650/http://cuapress.cua.edu/books/viewbook.cfm?book=HOID |archivedate=2015-06-13 }}
= 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).
Articles and essays
His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals, including the American Historical Review, Journal of the American Academy of Religion,{{cite journal | doi=10.1093/jaarel/lfm107 | title=Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England. By Timothy Larsen | year=2008 | last1=Howard | first1=T. A. | journal=Journal of the American Academy of Religion | volume=76 | pages=205–207 }} Historically Speaking,{{cite journal|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/v060/60.1howard.html|title= Jacob Burckhardt, Religion, and the Historiography of "Crisis" and "Transition"|journal= Journal of the History of Ideas|year=1999|volume=60|issue=1|pages=149–164|doi=10.1353/jhi.1999.0005|accessdate=2015-06-25|last1=Howard|first1=Thomas Albert|s2cid=170803360}} Pro Ecclesia,{{cite journal|url=http://www.e-ccet.org/pe.htm#spring2k9|last=Howard |first=Thomas Albert |title=Philipp Melanchthon and the American Evangelicalism |journal=Pro Ecclesia |volume=18 |issue=2 |year=2009 |pages=162–186|doi=10.1177/106385120901800202 |s2cid=187952225 |accessdate=2015-06-25|doi-access=free }} Church History,{{cite journal|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=2277396&fulltextType=XX&fileId=S0009640700088387|title= Commentary — A "Religious Turn" in Modern European Historiography?|journal=Church History|date=March 2006|volume=75|issue=1|pages=156–162|doi=10.1017/S0009640700088387|accessdate=2015-06-25|last1=Howard|first1=Thomas Albert|s2cid=144661599}} Journal of the History of Ideas,{{cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/v060/60.1howard.html|title= Jacob Burckhardt, Religion, and the Historiography of "Crisis" and "Transition"|journal= Journal of the History of Ideas|year=1999|volume=60|issue=1|pages=149–164|doi=10.1353/jhi.1999.0005|accessdate=2015-06-25|last1=Howard|first1=Thomas Albert|s2cid=170803360}} History of Universities, Fides et Historia, The Christian Scholar's Review,{{cite web|url=http://www.csreview.org/search.html?cx=001408113600017375063%3Altjkf3tfy8u&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=thomas+albert+howard&sa.x=1&sa.y=11&sa=Search|title=Christian Scholar's Review|work=Csreview.org|accessdate=2015-06-25}} Hedgehog Review,{{cite journal|url=http://www.iasc-culture.org/THR/archives/AfterSecularization/8.12KHoward.pdf |last=Howard |first=Thomas Albert |title=American Religion and European Anti-Americanism |journal=The Hedgehog Review |volume=8 |issue=1–2 |year=2006 |pages=116–126}} The National Interest, Inside Higher Ed,{{cite journal|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/users/thomas-albert-howard|last=Howard |first=Thomas Albert |title=The Promise of Religious Colleges |journal=Inside Higher Ed |date=September 19, 2013 |accessdate=2015-06-25}} Journal of Church and State, The Cresset,{{cite web|url=http://thecresset.org/search2.html?q=thomas%20albert%20howard|title=The Cresset|work=Thecresset.org|accessdate=2015-06-25}} Christian Century,{{cite journal|url=https://www.christiancentury.org/reviews/2012-02/nihil-obstat-sabrina-p-ramet|last=Howard |first=Thomas Albert |title=Nihil Obstat, by Sabrina P. Ramet |journal=The Christian Century |date=January 20, 1999}} Commonweal,{{cite web|url=https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/search/site/thomas%20albert%20howard|title=Search|work=Commonwealmagazine.org|accessdate=2015-06-25}} First Things,{{cite web|url=http://www.firstthings.com/author/thomas-albert-howard|title=Thomas Albert Howard|work=First Things}} and Books & Culture.{{cite web|url=http://www.booksandculture.com/search/results.html?query=thomas+albert+howard&x=0&y=0|title=Search: thomas albert howard - Books and Culture|work=Books and Culture|accessdate=2015-06-25}}
Fellowships and lectures
In 2003-04, he was a Senior Carey Fellow in the Erasmus Institute{{cite web|url=http://fteleaders.org/fundfinder/university-of-notre-dame-erasmus-institute|title=University of Notre Dame Erasmus Institute|work=Fteleaders.org|accessdate=2015-06-25}} at the University of Notre Dame. He has also spent considerable time teaching and researching outside the United States, particularly in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. He has held fellowships from the American Academy of Religion, the Pew Charitable Trust, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia,{{cite web|url=http://www.iasc-culture.org/|title=Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture|work=Iasc-culture.org|accessdate=2015-06-25}} the John Templeton foundation, the Lilly Fellows Program in the Humanities and the Arts{{cite web|url=http://www.lillyfellows.org/|title=Lilly Fellows Program|work=Lillyfellows.org|accessdate=2015-06-25}} at Valparaiso University, and the German Academic Exchange. He has given invited lectures at Oxford University, Cambridge University, University of Virginia, Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, and elsewhere.
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