Research Faculty

Dr. Mark Noll is a leading church historian. He recently retired as the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, having previously served as Professor of History and Theological Studies at Wheaton College. His teaching has included courses on American religious and intellectual history, the Reformation, world Christianity, and Canadian history. At Regent, he has been privileged to offer courses on Christianity and science, the recent history of world Christianity, hymnody, and eighteenth-century evangelicalism.

Dr. Noll has written and edited numerous books, most recently including C. S. Lewis in America (IVP, 2023); America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911 (OUP, 2022); Evangelicals: Who they Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be (with George Marsden and David Bebbington, Eerdmans, 2019); In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life (OUP, 2015); From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story (Baker Academic, 2014); and Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind (Eerdmans, 2011). He has also served on the editorial boards for Books & Culture and Christian History, and as co-editor of Library of Religious Biography for Wm. B. Eerdmans.

In 2006 he received the National Endowment for the Humanities medal at the White House. Dr. Noll currently lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife, Maggie.