CURRICULUM VITAE



Timothy Larsen

CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRENT POSITION:

2007- Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Christian Thought

Graduate Theological Studies

History of Christianity MA Program

Wheaton College

Wheaton, IL, 60187-5593, USA

Timothy.Larsen@wheaton.edu

2006- Professor of Theology

Graduate Theological Studies

Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois)

As well as being promoted to full professor, I was also awarded tenure in 2006.

2002-06 Associate Professor of Theology

Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois)

PROFESSIONAL HONORS, MEMBERSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND SERVICE:

Honorary Fellow, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, 2018-

Honorary Research Fellow, School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2014-

I have been elected a Fowler Hamilton Visiting Research Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford University, for the Hilary and Trinity terms 2021

Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University, for the Trinity term 2012

Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge University, Lent and Easter terms 2007

(I am still a Member of the High Table class (f) at Trinity College.)

Visiting Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University, Winter and Spring Quarters 2014

Founding Fellow, Center for Theologically Engaged Anthropology, University of Georgia

2001- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).

(The criterion for being elected a Fellow was that one had “made a

significant and original contribution to historical scholarship.”)

2012- Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (FRAI).

My other professional memberships are in the American Academy of Religion, the American Anthropological Association, the American Society of Church History, the Conference on Faith and History, the Ecclesiastical History Society, the North American Conference on British Studies, and the North American Victorian Studies Association.

American Society of Church History Council Member, 2015-18

American Society of Church History Nominating Committee Member, 2018

Member of the General Council of the University of Edinburgh, 2018-

2004-2005 Junior Faculty Achievement Award, Wheaton College

2017-18 Leland Ryland Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, Wheaton College

Editorial and Advisory Boards: sole General Editor, Spiritual Lives biography series, Oxford University Press; editorial board, the Journal of Religious History; editorial board, Fides et Historia; Contributing Editor, Marginalia Review of Books (a publication of the Los Angeles Review of Books); Senior Advisory Board, Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism; a General Editor for the monograph series.

External Assessor: I have served as an external assessor, reviewer, or judge for

the MacArthur (“Genius Award”) Fellowship; Fellowship in the British Academy; the American Council of Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship; Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs Program grants (the Historical Society / the John Templeton Foundation).

Peer Reviewer: I am asked regularly to peer review research articles and book-length manuscripts or proposals. The venues have included the Historical Journal, Journal of British Studies, Church History, Journal of Religious History, Victorian Studies, Fides et Historia, International Journal of Systematic Theology, Christian Scholar’s Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Journal of Theological Studies (Oxford), Theological Studies (Marquette), Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Religion and Literature, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Journal of Anglican Studies, Neotestamentica: Journal of the New Testament Society of Southern Africa, AJS Review (Association for Jewish Studies), Modern Intellectual History, Literature and Theology, History of Humanities, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, Penn State University Press, InterVarsity Press, Greenwood Press, Routledge, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Bloomsbury - T.&T. Clark, Cambridge University Press and, most frequently, Oxford University Press.

Media: Quotations from me as an academic expert have appeared in a variety of media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Huffington Post, Toronto Star, San Diego Union Tribune, Daily Herald, Houston Chronicle, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Times-Picayune, Religion News Service, Reuters, CNN, WGN TV nightly news, NBC5 TV nightly news, and local and national radio programs. Articles of mine have appeared in venues including the Wall Street Journal, Times Literary Supplement, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and .

EDUCATION:

1989 BA (Hons), magna cum laude, History, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL

Thesis: “Wesley the Idealist: John Wesley’s Views on Money, Luxury,

and Poverty.” Supervisor: Professor Mark A. Noll

1989 Teacher Training Course, Wheaton College;

certified to teach in secondary education by the State of Illinois

1990 MA, Theology, summa cum laude [GPA: 3.97], Wheaton College (IL)

1997 PhD, History, University of Stirling, Scotland

Pursued part-time while a full-time lecturer.

A revised version of my thesis, “Friends of Religious Equality:

the Politics of the English Nonconformists, 1847-67,” was published.

Supervisor: Professor David Bebbington

External Reader: Professor Clyde Binfield (Sheffield University)

2020 D.D., Historical Theology, University of Edinburgh

Thesis: ‘Faith and Doubt in Nineteenth-Century Britain’

Internal Examiner: Professor Stewart J. Brown

External Examiners: Professor John Coffey (Leicester University);

The Revd Canon Dr Jeremy Morris (Master, Trinity Hall, Cambridge)

Additional information on education:

For my bachelor’s degree, I was one of only four students to receive an honors degree in a graduating class of over 500 students. I was also awarded a medal for Excellence in History from the Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America which was a vehicle for the history faculty to recognize their most outstanding student and the only honor that the department awarded. I was also inducted into the Wheaton College Scholastic Honor Society (an honor that was restricted to a maximum of the top 5% of the students of any graduating class) and, from within that pool, won one of the Society’s grants for graduate work. For my master’s degree, I was joint recipient of the Kantzer Award in Christian History and Theology. This is the only prize the department awards for graduate students undertaking studies in any area of either theology or history. The D.D. is an earned, ‘higher’ doctorate. As such, one must achieve a higher standard in terms of the excellent, significance, and impact of one’s research than that for a PhD thesis.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

2000-02 Professor of Church History

Tyndale Seminary (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).

(Tyndale is the largest seminary in Canada.)

1990-99 Lecturer in Church History

Covenant College (Coventry, England)

PUBLICATIONS:

single-authored books:

Larsen, T. 2018 John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Larsen, T. 2018 George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles: Incarnation, Doubt, and Reenchantment, Downers Grove: IVP Academic.

Larsen, T. 2014 The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(Named the Book of the Year for 2014 by Books & Culture. I am the only author to win this honor twice. Also: Finalist for the 2016 Arlin G. Meyer Prize.)

Larsen, T. 2011 A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Larsen, T. 2006 Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Original edition: 2006.

(Named the Book of the Year for 2006 by Books & Culture.)

Larsen, T. 2004 Contested Christianity: The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian Theology, Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press.

Larsen, T. 2002 Christabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition (Studies in Modern British Religious History 4), Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press.

Larsen, T. 1999 Friends of Religious Equality: Nonconformist Politics in Mid-Victorian England (Studies in Modern British Religious History 1), Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press.

edited books:

Larsen, T. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Christmas, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Larsen, T. and Johnson, K. 2019 (eds), Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson, Downers Grove: IVP Academic.

Larsen, T. and Ledger-Lomas, M. (eds) 2017 The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (General Editors, Timothy Larsen and Mark A. Noll: The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, 5 vols.)

Larsen, T. and Johnson, K. (eds), 2013 Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture, Downers Grove: IVP Academic.

Larsen, T. and Greenman, J. (eds), 2012 The Decalogue through the Centuries: From the Hebrew Scriptures to Benedict XVI, Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

Larsen, T. and Treier, D. (eds) 2007 The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Larsen, T., Greenman, J. and Spencer, S. (eds) 2007 The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Pope John Paul II, Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

Larsen, T. and Husbands, M. (eds) 2007 Women, Ministry, and the Gospel: Exploring New Paradigms, IVP Academic.

Larsen, T. and Greenman, J. (eds) 2005 Reading Romans through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Karl Barth. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

Larsen, T. and Bebbington, D. (eds) 2003 Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations (Essays in Honour of Professor Clyde Binfield, OBE; Lincoln Studies in Religion and Society 5), London and New York: Sheffield Academic Press (Continuum).

Larsen, T. (ed.) 2003 Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, Leicester, England and Dowers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press (IVP).

co-authored book:

Larsen, T. and Vickery, J. 2004 For Christ In Canada: A History of Tyndale Seminary, 1976-2001 (foreword by Leighton Ford). Toronto: Tyndale University College and Seminary.

Sole General Editor, Spiritual Lives series, Oxford University Press:

Barry Hankins, Woodrow Wilson: Ruling Elder, Spiritual President, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. (Winner of the A. Donald Macleod Award for Presbyterian History.)

Emma Mason, Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Timothy Larsen, John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Fred Leventhal and Peter Stansky, Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Stewart J. Brown, W. T. Stead: Nonconformist and Newspaper Prophet, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Co-General Editor:

Larsen, T. and Noll, Mark. General Editors. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Tradition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Five volumes: vol. 3 (2017), vol. 2 (2018), vol. 5 (2018), vol. 4 (2019), and vol. (2020).

edited journal issue:

Timothy Larsen (guest editor) 2008 Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 86, 3 (Autumn 2004) [actual publication date: May 2008].

Theme of issue: “Biblical Scholarship in the Twentieth Century: The Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester, 1904-2004.” My contributors, many of whom are among the most eminent biblical scholars working today, were James D. G. Dunn, Morna D. Hooker, John Rogerson, Peter Oakes, Craig A. Evans, Wendy Cotter, and Eileen Schuller. I also contributed a research article myself, “A. S. Peake, the Free Churches, and Modern Biblical Criticism,” and wrote the introduction.

research articles in peer-reviewed or academic journals, annuals, and series:

Larsen, T. 2017 “The Catholic Faith of John Stuart Mill’s Stepdaughter: A Note on the Diary and Devotional Life of the Feminist Activist Helen Taylor (1831-1907)”, Catholic Historical Review, 103, 3 (Summer 2017).

Larsen, T. 2016 “British Social Anthropologists and Missionaries in the Twentieth Century”, Anthropos, 111, 2.

Larsen, T. 2013 “E. B. Tylor, Religion and Anthropology”, British Journal for the History of Science, 46, 3 (September 2013).

Larsen, T. 2013 “The Bible and Belief in Victorian Britain”, Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens (published by Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III), 76 (Octobre 2012) [actual publication date: June 2013].

Larsen, T. 2012 “The Book of Acts and the Origin of the Races in Evangelical Thought”, Victorian Review, 37, 2 (Fall 2011).

Larsen, T. 2012 “Biblical Commentaries as Prose”, Nineteenth-Century Prose, 39, 1/2 (Spring/Fall 2012).

Larsen, T. and Brandt, E. 2011 “The Old Atheism Revisited: Robert G. Ingersoll and the Bible”, Journal of the Historical Society, 11, 2 (June 2011).

Larsen, T. 2009 “E. B. Pusey and Holy Scripture”, Journal of Theological Studies, 60, 2 (October 2009).

Larsen, T. 2009 “Christina Rossetti, the Decalogue, and Biblical Interpretation”, Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte, 16, 1 (July 2009).

Larsen, T. 2009 “Literacy and Biblical Knowledge: The Victorian Age and Our Own”, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 52, 3 (September 2009).

Larsen, T. 2009 “Austen Henry Layard’s Nineveh: The Bible and Archaeology in Victorian Britain”, Journal of Religious History, 33, 1 (March 2009).

Larsen, T. 2008 “‘War Is Over, If You Want It’: Beyond the Conflict between Faith and Science”, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 60, 3 (September 2008).

Larsen, T. 2008 “Pioneer Girls: Mid-Twentieth-Century American Evangelicalism’s Girl Scouts”, Asbury Journal, 63, 2 (Fall 2008).

Larsen, T. 2008 “A. S. Peake, the free churches, and modern biblical criticism”, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 86, 3 (Autumn 2004) [actual publication date: May 2008].

Larsen, T. 2006 “Dechristendomization as an Alternative to Secularization: Theology, History, and Sociology in Conversation”, Pro Ecclesia, XV, 3 (Summer 2006).

Larsen, T. 2005 “A Nonconformist Conscience? Free Churchmen in Parliament in Nineteenth-Century England”, Parliamentary History, 24, 1 (April 2005).

Larsen, T. 2004 “Joseph P. Free and the Romance of Biblical Archaeology”, Westminster Theological Journal 66, 1 (Spring 2004).

Larsen, T. 2003 “Bishop Colenso and His Critics: the Strange Emergence of Biblical Criticism in Victorian Britain”, in Jonathan A. Draper (ed.), The Eye of the Storm: Bishop John William Colenso and the Crisis of Biblical Inspiration, London: T. & T. Clark International (Journal of the Study of the Old Testament Supplement 386). (Also published in a South African edition: Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications.)

Larsen, T. 2003 “’Living by Faith’: A Short History of Brethren Practice”, Emmaus Journal, 12, 2 (Winter 2003).

Larsen, T. 2001 “The Regaining of Faith: reconversions among popular radicals in Mid-Victorian England”, Church History, 70, 3 (September 2001).

Larsen, T. 2001 “The Reforming Project of the English Evangelical Dissenters”,

Fides et Historia, 33, 1.

Larsen, T. 2001 “Sex, Lies, and Victorians: the Case of the Revd Newman Hall’s Divorce”, Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society, 6, 8 (May 2001).

Larsen, T. 2000 “Thomas Cook, Holy Land pilgrims and the dawn of the modern tourist industry”, in R. N. Swanson (ed.), Holy Land, Holy Lands, and Christian History (Studies in Church History 36), Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press for the Ecclesiastical History Society.

Larsen, T. 2000 “Thomas Cooper and Christian Apologetics in Victorian Britain”, Journal of Victorian Culture, 5, 2 (Autumn 2000).

Larsen, T. 2000 “Joseph Barker and Popular Biblical Criticism in the Nineteenth Century”, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 83, 1.

Larsen, T. 1998 “’How Many Sisters Make A Brotherhood?’ A case study in gender and ecclesiology in early nineteenth-century English Dissent”, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 49, 2.

Larsen, T. 1998 “‘Living by Faith’: A short history of Brethren practice”, Brethren Archivists and Historians Network Review, 1, 2.

Larsen, T. 1997 “Bishop Colenso and his Critics: the strange emergence of biblical criticism in Victorian Britain”, Scottish Journal of Theology, 50, 4.

Larsen, T. 1997 “Victorian Nonconformity and the Memory of the Ejected Ministers: the impact of the bicentennial commemorations of 1862”, in R. N. Swanson (ed.),

The Church Retrospective (Studies in Church History 33), Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press for the Ecclesiastical History Society.

other research articles or chapters:

Larsen, T. 2021 “Congregationalists and Crucicentrism”, in David Bebbington and David Ceri Jones (eds), Evangelicalism and Dissent in Modern England and Wales, New York: Routledge [actual publication date: circa September 2020].

Larsen, T. 2019 “Joseph Ratzinger on the Nativity of Our Lord: Protestants and Catholics Reunite for Christmas,” in Emery de Gaál and Matthew Levering (eds), Joseph Ratzinger and the Healing of the Reformation-Era Divisions, Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Academic.

Larsen, T. 2019 “The Theological World of the Reverend John Ames”, in Timothy Larsen and Keith L. Johnson (eds), Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson, Downers Grove: IVP Academic.

Larsen, T. 2018 “John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University and Christian Colleges in the Twenty-First Century”, in Todd C. Ream, Jerry Pattengale, and Christopher J. Devers (eds), The State of the Evangelical Mind: Reflections on the Past, Prospects for the Future, Downers Grove: IVP Academic.

Larsen, T. and King, Daniel J. 2018 “The Dependence of Sociocultural Anthropology on Theological Anthropology”, in J. Derrick Lemons (ed.) Theologically Engaged Anthropology, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Larsen, T. 2018 “An Evangelical Response to the Decline of Christendom”, in Paul S. Peterson (ed.), The Decline of Established Christianity in the Western World: Theological Interpretations and Responses (Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations), London: Routledge, 2018 [actual publication date: circa October 2017].

Larsen, T. 2017 “Scripture and Biblical Interpretation”, in Stewart J. Brown, Peter B. Nockles, and James Pereiro (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Larsen, T. 2017 “Congregationalists”, in Larsen, T. and Ledger-Lomas, M. (eds) The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Larsen, T. 2017 “Anthropology” in Gary B. Ferngren (ed.), Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction, second edition, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Larsen, T. and Gibson, R. 2016 “Nineteenth-century spiritual autobiography: Carlyle, Mill, Newman”, in Adam Smyth (ed.), A History of English Autobiography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Larsen, T. 2015 “How Evangelical Biblicism Saved Western Civilization”, in Anthony R. Cross, Peter J. Morden, and Ian M. Randall (eds), Pathways and Patterns in History: Essays on Baptists, Evangelicals, and the Modern World in Honour of David Bebbington, London: Spurgeon’s College and the Baptist Historical Society.

Larsen, T. 2013 “Nineveh”, in David Gange and Michael Ledger-Lomas (eds), Cities of God: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Larsen, T. 2013 “The Bible and the Varieties of Nineteenth-Century Dissent: Elizabeth Fry, Mary Carpenter, and Catherine Booth”, in Scott Mandelbrote and Michael Ledger-Lomas (eds), Dissent and the Bible in Britain, c. 1650-1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Larsen, T. 2013 “The Evangelical Reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, in Keith Johnson and Timothy Larsen (eds), Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture, Downers Grove: IVP.

Larsen, T. 2012 “Christina Rossetti”, in Timothy Larsen and Jeffrey P. Greenman (eds), The Decalogue through the Centuries: From the Hebrew Scriptures to Benedict XVI, Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

Larsen, T. 2012 “Evangelicals, the Academy, and the Discipline of History”, in Todd C. Ream, Jerry Pattengale, and David L. Riggs (eds), Beyond Integration? Inter/Disciplinary Possibilities for the Future of Christian Higher Education, Abilene: Abilene Christian University Press.

Larsen, T. 2008 “The Reception Given Evangelicalism in Modern Britain since its Publication in 1989”, in Michael A. G. Haykin and Kenneth J. Stewart (eds), The Emergence of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical Continuities, Nottingham: Apollos (Inter-Varsity Press).

Larsen, T. 2007 “Charles Haddon Spurgeon”, in Larsen, T., Greenman, J. and Spencer, S. (eds) The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries: From the Early Church to John Paul II, Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Women in Public Ministry: A Historic Evangelical Distinctive”, in Timothy Larsen and Mark A. Husbands (eds), Women, Ministry, and the Gospel: Exploring New Paradigms, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Defining and Locating Evangelicalism”, in Timothy Larsen and Daniel J. Treier (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Larsen, T. 2006 “Charles Bradlaugh, Militant Unbelief, and the Civil Rights of Atheists”, in Caroline Litzenberger and Eileen Groth Lyon (eds), The Human Tradition in Modern Britain, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

Larsen, T. 2005 “Joseph P. Free and the Romance of Biblical Archaeology”, in Daniel M. Master, John M. Monson et al. (eds) Dothan I: Remains from the Tell (1953-1964), Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.

Larsen, T. 2005 “John William Colenso”, in Larsen, T. and Greenman, J. (eds) Reading Romans through the Centuries: Encounters from the Early Church to Karl Barth. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

Larsen, T. 2003 “Honorary Doctorates and the Nonconformist Ministry in Nineteenth-Century England”, in T. Larsen and D. Bebbington (eds), Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations, London and New York: Sheffield Academic Press (Continuum).

Larsen, T. 2002 “Methodist New Connexionism: lay emancipation as a denominational raison d’être”, in Deryck Lovegrove (ed.), The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism, London and New York: Routledge.

Larsen, T. 2002 “English Baptists, Jamaican Affairs and the Nonconformist Conscience: the campaign against Governor Eyre”, in D. W. Bebbington (ed.),

The Gospel in the World: International Baptist Studies (Studies in Baptist History and Thought 1), Carlisle: Paternoster.

articles in works of reference:

Larsen, T. and Johnson, Jessica L. forthcoming “Moore, George Foot”, in Thomas Römer et al (eds), Encyclopaedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Berlin: De Gruyter.

Larsen, T. and Richardson, Leslie forthcoming “Nicoll, William Robertson”, in Thomas Römer et al (eds), Encyclopaedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Berlin: De Gruyter.

Larsen, T. and Callaway, Alexander forthcoming “Colson, Charles Wendell ‘Chuck’”, in Gary Smith (ed.), American Religious History: Belief and Society through Time, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.

Larsen, T. and Monahan, 2019 “MacLaren, Alexander”, in Thomas Römer et al (eds), Encyclopaedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 17, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 376-77.

Larsen, T. and Healey, Spencer 2019 “Marsh, Herbert”, in Thomas Römer et al (eds), Encyclopaedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 17, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 1044-45.

Larsen, T. and Streckert, Tyler 2016 “Meyer, Frederick Brotherton” (Vol. 3; pp. 1513-14); “Pioneer Clubs (formerly Pioneer Girls)” (Vol. 3; pp. 1809-10); and “Pierson, Arthur Tappan” (Vol. 3; p. 1803) in George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Christianity in the United States, 5 volumes, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

Larsen, T. and Gibson, Richard 2012 “Evangelicalism”, Oxford Bibliographies Online: Victorian Literature, Oxford University Press ().

Larsen, T. 2009 “Wiseman, Nicholas”, in Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor (eds), Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, London: The British Library.

Larsen, T. 2005 “Religion, Secularization, and the Crisis of Faith” [principal entry: 4,000 words], in Gregory Claeys (ed.) The Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth-Century Thought, London: Routledge, pp. 394-99.

Larsen, T. 2004 “Fowler, Henry Hartley, first Viscount Wolverhampton (1830-1911)”, in H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 20, pp. 580-82.

Larsen, T. 2004 “Williams, John Carvell (1821-1907)”, in H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 59, pp. 249-51.

Larsen, T. 2004 “Colenso, John William”, in Hans J. Hillerbrand (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Protestantism, New York and London: Routledge.

Larsen, T. 2003 “England, Victorian” [principal entry: 2,000 words] in Catharine Cookson (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Religious Freedom, New York and London: Routledge, pp. 108-112.

Larsen, T. 2003 “Cook, Thomas”; “Cooper, Thomas”; “Hall, Christopher Newman”; and “Pankhurst, Christabel” in Timothy Larsen (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, Leicester, England and Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press (IVP).

Larsen, T. 2002 “Ludlow, John Malcolm Forbes” in Jörg Persch (ed.) Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, fourth edition (volume 5), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Larsen, T. 2000 “Freikirchen: Kirchengeschichtlich”; “Freikirchen: Missionen in den Freikirchen”; “Forsyth, Peter Taylor”; “Gladstone, William Ewart”; and “Huxley, Thomas Henry” in Jörg Persch (ed.), Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, fourth edition (volume 3), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Larsen, T. 2000 “The Dissenting Ethos”; Larsen, T. and Barkley, S. “The Congregationalists”, The Victorian Web:

Based at Brown University, this is an award-winning website that is recommended by the National Endowment for the Humanities. These articles have also been translated into Spanish by Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

reviews in academic journals:

Larsen, T. 2020 Gareth Atkins, Converting Britannia: Evangelicals and British Public Life, 1770-1840, Church History, 89, 2 (June 2020), pp. 477-79.

Larsen, T. 2020 Andrew Atherstone and David Ceri Jones (eds), Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship, and the Evangelical Past, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 71, 2 (April 2020), pp. 437-38.

Larsen, T. 2020 Kate Bowler, The Preacher’s Wife: The Precariousness of Evangelical Women Celebrities, Christian Scholar’s Review, XLIX, 2 (Winter 2020), pp. 209-11.

Larsen, T. 2019 Featured Review: Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm, The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences, Fides et Historia, 51, 2 (Summer/Fall 2019), pp. 168-70.

Larsen, T. 2019 Andrew Mein, Nathan MacDonald, and Matthew A. Collins (eds), The First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship, Church History, 88, 3 (September 2019), pp. 878-80.

Larsen, T. 2019 Richard A. Burridge and Jonathan Sacks (eds), Confronting Religious Violence: A Counternarrative, Journal of Religious History, 43, 3 (September 2019), pp. 430-32.

Larsen, T. 2019 Frank A. Salmone and Marjorie E. Snipes (eds), The Intellectual Legacy of Victor and Edith Turner, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 25, 3 (September 2019), pp. 632-33.

Larsen, T. 2018 Colin Kidd, The World of Mr Casaubon: Wars of Mythography, 1700-1870, Victorian Studies, 60, 3 (Spring 2018), pp. 496-98.

Larsen, T. 2018 “A Grand Narrative of High Politics: Cannadine’s Victorious Century” [review essay], Fides et Historia, 50, 1 (Winter/Spring 2018), pp. 94-98.

Larsen, T. 2017 Daniel Inman, The Making of Modern English Theology: God and the Academy at Oxford, 1833-1945 and Frances Knight, Victorian Christianity in Fin De Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age, Victorian Studies, 59, 2 (Winter 2017), pp. 322-25.

Larsen, T. 2015 Lieven Boeve, Yves De Maeseneer, and Ellen Van Stichel (eds), Questioning the Human: Towards a Theological Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 21, 3 (September 2015).

Larsen, T. Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, Victorian Reformations: Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1900, Journal of British Studies, 54, 1 (January 2015).

Larsen, T. 2015 Efram Sera-Shriar, The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871, Victorian Studies, 57, 1 (Autumn 2014).

Larsen, T. 2014 Robert Deaken, Cosmo Lang: Archbishop in War and Crisis, American Historical Review, 119, 1 (February 2014).

Larsen, T. 2012 Robert H. Ellison (ed.), A New History of the Sermon: The Nineteenth Century, Victorian Studies, 54, 1 (Autumn 2011).

Larsen, T. 2011 Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich; Martin E. Marty, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison: A Biography, Fides et Historia, 43, 2 (Summer/Fall 2011).

Larsen, T. 2011 Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay, The Science of Religion in Britain, 1860-1915, Journal of British Studies, 50, 3 (July 2011).

Larsen, T. 2010 Dominic Erdozain, The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion, Victorian Studies, 53, 1 (Autumn 2010).

Larsen, T. 2009 David M. Thompson, Cambridge Theology in the Nineteenth Century: Enquiry, Controversy and Truth, Victorian Studies, 51, 4 (Summer 2009).

Larsen, T. 2008 “We Live in Cross-Pressured Times” [a review essay of Charles Taylor, A Secular Age], Fides et Historia, 40, 2 (Summer/Fall 2008).

Larsen, T. 2008 Richard D. Floyd, Church, Chapel, and Party: Religious Dissent and Political Modernization in Nineteenth-Century England, Parliamentary History, 27, pt 3.

Larsen, T. 2008 D. Bruce Hindmarsh, The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England, English Historical Review, CXXIII, 502 (June 2008).

Larsen, T. 2008 Joanna Dean, Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall, American Historical Review, 113, 1 (February 2008).

Larsen, T. 2006 Marion Ann Taylor and Heather E. Weir (eds) Let Her Speak for Herself: Nineteenth-Century Women Writing on the Women of Genesis, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 49, 4 (December 2006).

Larsen, T. 2005 Aileen Fyfe, Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain, The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society (June 2005).

Larsen, T. 2005 Tony Tucker, Reformed Ministry: Traditions of Ministry and Ordination in the United Reformed Church and Alan P. F. Sell and Anthony R. Cross (eds), Protestant Nonconformity in the Twentieth Century, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 56, 2 (April 2005).

Larsen, T. 2005 D. G. Hart, Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham, Journal of Religion, 85, 1 (January 2005).

Larsen, T. 2003 Stewart J. Brown, The National Churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1801-46, Victorian Studies, 45, 3 (Spring 2003).

Larsen, T. 2003 Pamela J. Walker, Pulling the Devil’s Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain, Journal of Religion, 83, 2 (April 2003).

Larsen, T. 2003 Charles Cashdollar, A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830-1915, Journal of Religious History, 27, 1 (Feb. 2003).

Larsen, T. 2002 James E. Secord, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of ‘Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation’, Fides et Historia, XXXIV, 1.

Larsen, T. 2002 Linda Wilson, Constrained by Zeal: Female Spirituality amongst Nonconformists, 1825-1875, Journal of Religious History, 26, 3.

Larsen, T. 2001 Maxie B. Burch, The Evangelical Historians: the Historiography of

George Marsden, Nathan Hatch, and Mark Noll, Christianity and History Newsletter, 20 (Spring 2001).

Larsen, T. 2000 Christopher Oldstone-Moore, Hugh Price Hughes, History, 85, 278.

Larsen, T. 1999 Marjorie Reeves, Pursuing the muses: Female education and nonconformist culture, 1700-1900 and John Wolffe (ed.), Evangelical faith and public zeal: Evangelicals and society in Britain, 1780-1980, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 50, 1.

other publications:

Larsen, T. 2020 “The Myth of Meritocracy” [review essay on Peter Mandler, The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education], Marginalia Review of Books (a publication of the Los Angeles Review of Books], posted on-line 9 October 2020.

Larsen, T. 2020 “Introduction”, in George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie, Moscow, Idaho: Canonball Books, 2020, pp. 1-7.

Larsen, T. 2020 “Foreword”, in Thomas Breimaier, Tethered to the Cross: The Life and Preaching of C. H. Spurgeon, IVP Academic.

Larsen, T. 2020 “You Don’t Know Jack” [lead review on Marilynne Robinson’s novel, Jack], Christianity Today, October 2020, pp. 69-71.

Larsen, T. 2020 “For Those Who Have Ears to Hear: Signs and Wonders in the Anthropology of Charismatic Christianity”, Syndicate: A Living Network of Scholarship in the Humanities (work ), posted on-line 25 August 2020.

Larsen, T. 2020 “Introduction”, in George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin, Moscow, Idaho: Canonball Books, 2020, pp. 1-7.

Larsen, T. 2019 “You Can’t Reject a Faith You Never Knew” [lead book review essay of Alec Ryrie, Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt], Christianity Today (December 2019), pp. 63-65.

Larsen, T. 2019 Review of Andrew R. Holmes, The Irish Presbyterian Mind: Conservative theology, evangelical experience, and modern criticism, 1830-1930, Times Literary Supplement, 28 June 2019, p. 31.

Larsen, T. 2019 “The Nonsense Laureate” [review of Sara Lodge, Inventing Edward Lear], Englewood Review of Book,9, 3 (Eastertide 2019), pp. 20-21, 43.

Larsen, T. 2019 “Homecoming” [poem], Englewood Review of Books, posted on-line on 21 February 2019:

Larsen, T. 2018 “A surprisingly religious John Stuart Mill”, OUPblog, posted at blog. on 7 December 2018.

Larsen, T. 2018 Review of Ian Hesketh, Victorian Jesus: J. R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity, Times Literary Supplement, 5 October 2018, p. 35.

Larsen, T. 2018 “Terry Gross’s Anti-Christian Crusade”, Christian Post, posted on-line at on 22 September 2018.

Larsen, T. 2017 Review of Jon Bialecki, A Diagram of Fire: Miracles and Variation in the American Charismatic Movement, Times Literary Supplement, 17 November 2017, p. 39.

Larsen, T. 2017 “Why I’m fascinating by faithfulness”, Faith and Leadership, posted on-line at on 18 September 2017.

Larsen, T. 2017 “Evangelicalism’s Strong History of Women in Ministry”, Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought (Sept/Oct 2017), pp. 16-21.

Larsen, T. 2017 “Professor Pope” (review essay: Pope Benedict XVI with Peter Seewald, Last Testament: In His Own Words), Education & Culture, posted on-line on 31 May 2017.

Larsen, T. 2017 “The fasts we choose”, Christian Century, 1 March 2017, pp. 10-11.

Larsen, T. 2017 “Incarnation and drains: The intellectual strength of Anglicanism” (review of James Kirby, Historians and the Church of England: Religion and historical scholarship, 1870-1920), Times Literary Supplement, 10 February 2017, p. 29.

Larsen, T. 2017 “Pilgrim’s Finale?” (review essay: A. N. Wilson, The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible), Touchstone (January / February 2017), pp. 65-67.

Larsen, T. 2016 Review of Gerry Bowler, Christmas in the Crosshairs: Two thousand years of denouncing and defending the world’s most celebrated holiday, Times Literary Supplement, 23 December 2016, p. 26.

Larsen, T. 2016 “Response” in “An Author Meets His Critics: Faith in Anthropology: A Symposium on Timothy Larsen’s The Slain God”, Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 43, 2 (Autumn 2016), pp. 149-51 (whole section: pp. 140-52).

Larsen, T. 2016 “A Portrait of America’s First Atheists” [review essay: Leigh Eric Schmidt, Village Atheists], Christianity Today, September 2016, pp. 71-73.

Larsen, T. 2016 “A Pious Fiction” [review essay: John Henry Newman, Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert, ed. Sheridan Gilley], Books & Culture (July/August 2016), p. 37.

Larsen, T. 2016 “Utilitarians in Love” [review essay: Sandra J. Paert, ed., F. A. Hayek, Hayek on Mill: The Mill-Taylor Friendship and Related Writings], Books & Culture (Jan/Feb 2016), pp. 8-9.

Larsen, T. 2016 “Let Wheaton and other Christian colleges be Christian,” CNN: posted on-line on 11 January 2016 at .

Larsen, T. 2015 “Rival Attractions” [review: Michael R. Watts, The Dissenters: Volume III: The Crisis and Conscience of Nonconformity], Times Literary Supplement, 27 November 2015, p. 34.

Larsen, T. 2015 “Mayfair Muslims” [review essay: Jamie Gilham, British Converts to Islam, 1850-1950], Books & Culture, September/October 2015, pp. 8-9.

Larsen, T. 2015 “The Road to Rome. Starring Bob Hope” [review essay: Richard Zoglin, Hope: Entertainer of the Century], Books & Culture, May/June 2015, pp. 8-9.

Larsen, T. 2015 “Look who’s not talking now”, Faith & Leadership (), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School. Posted 20 April 2015.

Larsen, T. 2015 “Savages, Symbols and Riddles”, The Tablet, 21 February 2015, pp. 14-16.

Larsen, T. 2015 “Losing My Religion” [review essay: Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Robert Elsmere, edited by Miriam Elizabeth Burstein], Books & Culture, Jan/Feb 2015, pp. 9-10.

Larsen, T. 2014 “Foreword”, in Eileen Bebbington, A Patterned Life: Faith, History, and David Bebbington, Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2014.

Larsen, T. 2014 “The Noah Sphinx” [review essay: David Gange, Dialogues with the Dead: Egyptology in British Culture and Religion, 1822-1922], Books & Culture, Sept/Oct 2014, p. 38.

Larsen, T. 2014 “Cheerful Confidence after Christendom”, 9 Marks Journal, Fall 2014, pp. 8-10. (Also posted on-line at ).

Larsen, T. 2014 “Anthropology and Christianity”, OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for a Thinking World ( blog. ), posted on-line on 13 August 2014.

Larsen, T. 2014 “Old Faithful”, Faith & Leadership (), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School. Posted 29 July 2014.

Larsen, T. 2014 “Academic Divisions” [review essay: James Turner, Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Humanities], Books & Culture, July/August 2014, p. 14.

Larsen, T. 2014 “The Human Bonhoeffer” [lead review essay: Charles Marsh, Strange Glory: The Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer], Christianity Today, May 2014, pp. 53-44.

Larsen, T. 2014 “For the Persistent Ph.D. Impulse, Gentle Dissuasion”, Chronicle of Higher Education, posted on-line 31 March 2014.

Larsen, T. and Reagles, D. 2014 “Winston Churchill and Almighty God”, Historically Speaking, 14, 5 (November 2013), pp. 8-10. [actual publication date: March 2014]

Larsen, T. 2014 “The Science of the Sermon” [review essay: Robert H. Ellison (ed.), A New History of the Sermon: The Nineteenth Century], Books & Culture (March/April 2014), p. 21.

Larsen, T. 2014 “What is Christianity?” in Gary M. Burge and David Lauber (eds), Theology Questions Everyone Asks: Christian Faith in Plain Language, Downers Grove: IVP Academic.

Larsen, T. and McNutt, J. 2013 “The Reformation and Protestantism”, in Jerry Pattengale, Lawrence Schiffman and Filip Vukosavovic (eds), The Book of Books: Biblical Canon, Dissemination and Its People, Jerusalem: Bible Lands Museum.

Larsen, T. 2013 “Is there an expert in the house?”, Faith & Leadership (), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School, posted 2 December 2013.

Larsen, T. 2013 “War Work” [review essay: Peter Mandler, Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War], Books & Culture, September/October 2013, p. 16.

Larsen, T. 2013 “Why is history important for Christian leadership?”, Faith & Leadership (), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School, posted 7 May 2013.

Larsen, T. 2013 “Stark’s Sampler. Church History for the Chronically Misinformed” [review essay: Rodney Stark, The Triumph of Christianity], Books & Culture, January/February 2013, pp. 25-26.

Larsen, T. 2013 “The Quest for the Perfect Atheist” [review of Susan Jacoby, The Great Agnostic], Christianity Today, posted on-line 30 January 2013.

Larsen, T. 2012 “How to Survive the Titanic: A Fate Worse Than Death” [review essay: Frances Wilson: How To Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay], Books & Culture, web exclusive, posted on-line 2 November 2012.

Larsen, T. 2012 “Religion is wasted on the young”, Faith & Leadership (), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School, posted 11 September 2012.

Larsen, T. 2012 “Sacred Texts” [review essay: Charles LaPorte, Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible], Books & Culture (May/June 2012), pp. 37-38.

Larsen, T. 2012 “The Accidental Author: Missionaries, Ruth Graham, and Beyond”, Christian Post, posted on-line 22 March 2012.

Larsen, T. 2012 “Civilization: The West and the Rest” [Book Note on Niall Ferguson, Civilization], Books & Culture, web exclusive, posted on-line, 8 March 2012.

Larsen, T. 2012 “A Model for Letting Go of Vanity”, The United Methodist Reporter, 16 January 2012.

Larsen, T. 2011 Bloomsbury Blood, London: Ecclesiastical History Society. (This is a murder mystery novel which was published electronically on the society’s website: history.ac.uk/ehsoc/content/about-ehs )

Larsen, T. 2011 “Evangelicals, the Bible, and the Early Church: A Response to Michael W. Graves”, in George Kalantzis and Andrew Tooley (eds), Evangelicals in the Early Church, Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2012 [actually publication date: October 2011].

Larsen, T. 2011 “Blind Spots: Reading History in the Good Society”, Comment (Fall 2011), pp. 53-56.

Larsen, T. 2011 “A Lucky Calvinist” [review essay: Dick Van Dyke, My Lucky Life – In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir], Books & Culture (November/December 2011), p. 31.

Larsen, T. 2011 “The Bible and the Victorians: An Interview with Timothy Larsen”, Historically Speaking, XII, 4 (September 2011), pp. 7-9.

Larsen, T. 2011 “When the KJV was King”, Faith & Leadership (), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School, posted 27 September 2011.

Larsen, T. 2011 “The Music of the Titanic” (Book Note on Steve Turner, The Band that Played On), Books & Culture, web exclusive, posted on-line, 24 June 2011.

Larsen, T. 2011 “The Liner: The elusive romance of another time” [review essay: Philip Dawson, The Liner: Retrospective and Renaissance.] Books & Culture, web exclusive posted on-line 13 May 2011.

Larsen, T. 2011 “Out of Egypt” [review essay: Anthony Sattin, A Winter on the Nile: Florence Nightingale, Gustave Flaubert and the Temptations of Egypt], Books & Culture (May/June 2011), p. 24.

Larsen, T. 2011 “Victorian Studies” [poem], First Things, (May 2011), p. 65.

Larsen, T. 2011 “I Didn’t Hear It on NPR”, World, 9 April 2011.

Larsen, T. 2011 “You’re so vain”, Faith & Leadership (), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School, posted 15 March 2011.

Larsen, T. 2011 “Why We Said No”, Inside Higher Ed (), posted 16 February 2011.

Larsen, T. 2011 “More relevant than thou”, Faith & Leadership (), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School, posted 25 January 2011.

Larsen, T. 2011 “Faith Under Fire” [review essay: Jonathan H. Ebel, Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War.] Books & Culture (January/February 2011), p. 9.

Larsen, T. 2011 “The KJV Endureth: The 400th anniversary”, Christian Century, 11 January 2011, pp. 12-13.

Larsen, T. 2010 “Participant Observer” [review essay: George W. Stocking, Stocking, Jr. Glimpses into My Own Black Box: An Exercise in Self-Deconstruction], Books & Culture, web exclusive posted on-line 16 November 2010.

Larsen, T. 2010 “Make It New” [review essay: Cathy Gere, Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism], Books & Culture (Sept/Oct 2010), p. 19.

Larsen, T. 2010 “No Christianity Please, We’re Academics”, Inside Higher Ed (), posted 30 July 2010. Republished as “Stop turning the other cheek”, The Times Higher (timeshighereducation.co.uk), posted 3 August 2010.

Larsen, T. 2010 “A posthumous book of essays by Clifford Geertz” [Book Note on Clifford Geertz, Among the Anthros and Other Essays], Books & Culture, web exclusive, posted 22 June 2010.

Larsen, T. 2010 “Oxford Anthropology in Gossipy Retrospect” [Book Note on Peter Riviére , ed., A History of Oxford Anthropology], Books & Culture, web exclusive, posted 3 June 2010.

Larsen, T. 2010 “Who are you without Google?”, Faith & Leadership (), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School. Posted 11 May 2010. (Part of this piece was reprinted as “The Importance of Scripture Memorization”, Preaching Today [], posted 25 June 2010.)

Larsen, T. 2010 “Synoptic Sisters” [review essay: Janet Sockice, The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels; David Cornick and Clyde Binfield (eds), From Cambridge to Sinai: The worlds of Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson], Books & Culture (May/June 2010), pp. 24-25.

Larsen, T. 2010 “Overcorrection: Evangelicals and Sports in Victorian Britain” [Book Note on Dominic Erdozain, The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion], Books & Culture, web exclusive, posted 8 April 2010.

Larsen, T. 2010 “Imagine There’s No Christendom” [review essay: Hugh McLeod, The Religious Crisis of the 1960s], Books & Culture (March/April 2010), pp. 20-21.

Larsen, T. 2009 “It’s Christmas. Time to break out the Santa figurine”, Faith & Leadership (), an on-line journal from Duke Divinity School. Posted 22 December 2009.

Larsen, T. 2009 “God & Math” [review essay: Mario Livio, Is God A Mathematician?; Daniel J. Cohen, Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith], Books & Culture (Sept/Oct 2009), pp. 22-23.

Larsen, T. 2009 “Look Who’s a Believer Now”, Wall Street Journal, 29 May 2009, p. W13.

Larsen, T. 2009 “No Longer at Ease Here” [review essay: David Hempton, Evangelical Disenchantment: 9 Portraits of Faith and Doubt], Books & Culture (January/February 2009), p. 11.

Larsen, T. 2008 “St Flo” [review essay: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale and Mark Bostridge, Florence Nightingale: The Making of An Icon], Books & Culture (November/December 2008), pp. 16-17.

Larsen, T. 2008 “Reading Habits” [review essay: William St Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, and Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes], Books & Culture, September/October 2008, pp. 34-36.

Larsen, T. 2008 “When Did Sunday Schools Start?”, Christian History & Biography (on-line: posted 5 September 2008).

Larsen, T. 2008 “The Americanist: An Interview with Ken Burns”, Christian Century, 15 July 2008, pp. 32-33.

Larsen, T. 2008 “Introduction”, in Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 86, 3 (Autumn 2004) [actual publication date: May 2008].

Larsen, T. 2008 “Counter-culture”, World, 17 May 2008.

Larsen, T. 2008 “Wheaton Prof Explains Divorce Policy”, World magazine’s World on the Web, posted on-line 6 May 2008.

Larsen, T. 2008 “Enlightened Racism” [review essay: Colin Kidd, The Forging of the Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000], Books & Culture, January/February 2008, p. 10.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Introduction”, in Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen, and Stephen R. Spencer (eds) The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Pope John Paul II, Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

Larsen, T. 2007 “No-longer-hard Passages of Scripture”, (The Blog of the Christian Century), posted 3 May 2007.

Larsen, T. and Husbands, M. 2007 “Introduction” in Timothy Larsen and Mark A. Husbands (eds), Women, Ministry, and the Gospel: Exploring New Paradigms, InterVarsity Press.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Email Theology”, (The Blog of the Christian Century), posted 27 March 2007.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Eve’s Exegetes. Victorian Women on Genesis” [review essay: Marion Ann Taylor and Heather E. Weir (eds) Let Her Speak for Herself: Nineteenth-Century Women Writing on the Women of Genesis], Books & Culture, web exclusive posted on-line 12 March 2007.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Look Again” [review essay: Judith Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols, and Michaela Giebelhausen, Painting the Bible: Representation and Belief in Mid-Victorian Britain], Books & Culture, March/April 2007, pp. 44-45.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Callous about a chalice”, (The Blog of the Christian Century), posted 20 February 2007.

Larsen, T. 2007 “Epistolatory Theology”, (The Blog of the Christian Century), posted 19 January 2007.

Larsen, T. 2006 “Our Favorite War” [a review of the Clint Eastwood film, Flags of Our Fathers], Christian Century, 28 November 2006, pp. 49-50.

Larsen, T. 2006 “Repackaged” [a review of the Woody Allen film, Scoop], Christian Century, 5 September 2006, p. 59.

Larsen, T. 2006 “A Time To Swing” [review essay: Peter J. Levinson, Tommy Dorsey: Livin’ In A Great Big Way], Books & Culture, July/August 2006, p. 24.

Larsen, T. 2006 David Bebbington, The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody, Christianity Today, June 2006, p. 64.

Larsen, T. and Greenman, J. 2005 “Introduction”, in Larsen, T. and Greenman, J. (eds) Reading Romans through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Karl Barth. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

Larsen, T. 2005 “’Do Something’” [review essay: David Bebbington, The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody], Books & Culture (Nov/Dec 2005), p. 17.

Larsen, T. 2005 “The Power of Books”, Christian History & Biography (Spring 2005), pp. 14-15.

Larsen, T. 2005 “Victorian Skeptics on the Road to Damascus”, Christian History & Biography, May 2005 e-newsletter and website: history/newsletter/2005/may20.html

Larsen, T. 2005 “A Most Unclubbable Man. The curious and instructive pilgrimage of Orestes Augustus Brownson” [review essay: Patrick W. Carey, Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane; Orestes A. Brownson (introduction by Peter Augustine Lawler), The American Republic], Books & Culture (May/June 2005), p. 33.

Larsen, T. 2005 “The Orderly Product of a Disordered Mind” [review essay: Julia Keay, Alexander the Corrector: The Tormented Genius who Unwrote the Bible], Books & Culture (March/April 2005), p. 16.

Larsen, T. 2005 “Anglican Angst: Save the Last Dance for Me” [review essay: Derek Keene, Arthur Burns, and Andrew Saint (eds), St Paul’s: The Cathedral Church of London, 604-2004; William H. Katerberg, Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880-1950; ,John Richard Orens, Stewart Headlam’s Radical Anglicanism: The Mass, The Masses, and the Music Hall; Duncan Dormor, Jack McDonald, and Jeremy Caddick (eds), Anglicanism: The Answer to Modernity], Books & Culture (Jan/Feb 2005), pp. 18-19.

Larsen, T. 2004 “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” [review essay: Dale A. Johnson, The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925; Grayson Carter, Anglican Evangelicals: Protestant Secessions from the Via Media, c. 1800-1850], Books & Culture (Jan/Feb 2004), pp. 20-21.

[also reprinted in Christianity and History Forum, Summer 2005, pp. 46-50.]

Larsen, T. and Bebbington, D. 2003 “Introduction”, in Timothy Larsen and David Bebbington (eds), Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations (Essays in Honour of Professor Clyde Binfield, OBE; Lincoln Studies in Religion and Society 5), London and New York: Sheffield Academic Press (Continuum).

CURRENT SCHOLARLY PROJECTS, CONFERENCES, AND PRESENTATIONS

current scholarly projects:

My main current research project is a study of the lives and thought of a cohort of Anglican clergymen who served as chaplains in World War I. I hope it will lead to my next published monograph.

Spiritual Lives Series. I am the sole General Editor of this new series with Oxford University Press. It is comprised of book-length biographies of prominent figures not primarily known for religion. It will highlight the religious intersects of their life and work. Five volumes have already been published, including Timothy Larsen, John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life. Ten or so more volumes are currently contracted.

plenary conference papers, convening conferences, collaborations, and presentations:

“Christmas in the Nineteenth Century.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Church History, New York City, 3 January 2020. At the same conference, I also served as the chair for the session: “Church History as a Global Discipline.”

I was the co-convener of “Evangelicals and the Bible: A Symposium to Honor David Bebbington”, Baylor University, 19-20 September 2019, and gave there the following paper: “Liberal Evangelicals and the Bible”.

I was an invited panellist for the session, “Author-Meets-Critics: A Discussion of Jon Bialecki’s A Diagram of Fire”, at the biennial meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion, University of Toronto, 21 May 2019.

“Liberal Evangelicals and the Bible in the Church of England in the Interwar Years.” I gave address as the keynote for the Inheritance conference, Wheaton College, 26-27 April 2019.

Roundtable: “Timothy Larsen’s John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life and OUP’s Spiritual Lives Series”, American Society of Church History, Chicago, 3 January 2019. (I was a Respondent to this panel on my work.)

“New Perspectives on the History of Charismatic Renewal in the North Atlantic World and Globally, c. 1950-1980”, American Society of Church History, Chicago, 4 January 2019. (I was the Chair and Commentator this session.)

I was invited speaker for the Christian History and Thought since 1700 section at the annual conference of the Evangelical Theological Society, 14 November 2018, in Denver. My paper was “The Oxford Movement and the Scriptures: The Nineteenth-Century Trajectory.”

External Reader for Elizabeth Mary Davis, “Reading with our Foresisters: Aguilar, King, McAuley and Schimmelpennick – Early Nineteenth-Century Women Interpret Scripture in New Ways for New Times”, ThD, Regis College, 2018 (oral defence on 9 November 2018).

I gave the keynote address, “The Liberal Arts, General Education, and the Idea of a University”, at the Fall Faculty Workshop, Valparaiso University, 16 August 2018.

I was a fully-funded participant and respondent to Michael Root, “Did Reginald Pole Argue for a Lutheran Understanding of Justification at the Council of Trent?”, at the annual Boston College Colloquy in Historical Theology, Boston College, 4-8 August 2018.

“The Theological World of the Reverend John Ames.” I gave this paper at the conference “Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson”, 5-6 April 2018, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. I was also the co-convener and coordinator of this conference. The keynote speakers were Marilynne Robinson and Rowan Williams.

Respondent for the session, “Testing Ecclesiastical-Civil Boundaries in Educational Spaces: Case Studies from Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America”, at the American Society of Church History annual meeting, Washington DC, 5 January 2018.

I was the second reader on following PhD dissertation: Susanne Calhoun, “Proclaiming the Divine Unity: God and Order in Victorian Britain”, PhD in Historical Theology, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, 1 December 2017 (the oral defence).

“Joseph Ratzinger on the Nativity of Our Lord: Protestants and Catholics Reunite for Christmas.” I have gave this invited, funded, paper at the symposium, “Joseph Ratzinger and the Healing of the Reformation-Era Divisions,” Mundelein Seminary, 20 October 2017.

“John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University and Christian Colleges in the Twenty-First Century.” I gave this invited, plenary paper at the “State of the Evangelical Mind” conference sponsored by Indiana Wesleyan University, Indianapolis, 21-22 September 2017.

“Congregationalists and Crucicentrism.” I have this invited, funded, plenary paper at the “Evangelicalism and Dissent” conference, Dr Williams’s Library, London, 20 May 2017.

“George MacDonald and the Victorian Crisis of Doubt.” I have this invited, plenary paper for the “Moments in Dissent” conference, Regent’s Park College, Oxford, 18 May 2017. There was a also a book launch at this conference for my Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century.

I gave the Womack Lectures at Methodist University, Fayetteville, North Carolina, on 17 March 2017. The first lecture was “Secularization and Religious Decline” and the second was “The Bible and Western Civilization”.

Sole keynote speaker for the annual Arts and Humanities Symposium, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, 17 February 2017. My keynote address was: “John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University and Christian Colleges in the Twenty-First Century.”

I was keynote and sole guest speaker for the annual Day of Learning, Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa,15 February 2017. On this day, the entire college – students and faculty members – attend to a common program. I participated in a series of panels and discussions, as well as giving the keynote address: “On the Idea of a Christian College.”

“George MacDonald and the Crisis of Doubt.” I gave this lecture on 2 February 2017 as the second of a series titled, “The Rose Fire: George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles”, for the Hansen Lectures, the Wade Center, Wheaton College.

“George MacDonald in the Age of the Incarnation.” I gave this lecture on 1 December 2016 as the first of a series titled, “The Rose Fire: George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles”, for the Hansen Lectures, the Wade Center, Wheaton College.

“The Dependence of Sociocultural Anthropology on Theological Anthropology.” I gave this paper at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 16 November 2016, Minneapolis.

I was the respondent on the panel, “Writing Religious Biographies of Women”, at the Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, 20-22 October 2016, Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

“George MacDonald in the Age of the Incarnation.” I gave this invited, plenary lecture at the biennial meeting of the George MacDonald Society, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 20-22 July 2016.

I was the sole external, plenary speaker for the Assemblies of God Faculty Conference, 21-23 June 2016. My two addresses were, “How Bible Reading Saves Western Civilization,” and “Are Faith and Science in Conflict?”

“The Future of the Study of the History of Christianity.” I have this paper at a symposium held by the History Department, Baylor University, 27 April 2016.

“The History of Anthropologists and Religious Belief.” Research Seminar on Anthropological Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 11 March 2016.

“How Bible Reading Saved Civilization.” King Institute for Faith and Culture Lecture Series, King University, Bristol, Tennessee, 1 February 2016.

“Are Faith and Science in Conflict?” Convocation, King University, Bristol, Tennessee, 1 February 2016.

“Author Meets Critic: Anthropologists Respond to Timothy Larsen’s The Slain God”. I was the respondent at this panel about my work. American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Denver, 18-22 November 2015.

Invited Collaborator for a John Templeton Foundation-supported project, “Theologically-Engaged Anthropology: What Can Theology Contribute to Cultural Anthropology and Ethnography?” I gave a research paper titled, “The Dependence of Cultural Anthropology on Theological Anthropology”. University of Georgia, Atlanta, 20-22 September 2015.

I was the external reader at the defence of an MA thesis in Church History, Michael P. Ellingsen, “Dragoman Doctor of Divinity: William McClure Thomson, Early Biblical Archaeology, and Nineteenth-Century Conceptions of the Near East in America, 1832-1894,” Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, 30 July 2015.

I gave an invited lecture entitled “The Bible and the Victorians” in the Contextual Lecture Series to a sold-out, paying audience, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 19 May 2015.

I gave a public lecture on “The Bible in the Nineteenth Century” at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, on 20 May 2015.

The Bible, Narrative and Modernity Symposium, sponsored by the English Department and Religion and Literature, Notre Dame University, 26-28 March 2015. I was one of two keynote lecturers for this event. My lecture was “The Bible and the Victorians Beyond Belief”. I also co-led a workshop for graduate students and was on two faculty roundtable panels.

“Victor Turner, Anthropology, and Christianity”: I gave this paper at the colloquium of the Religious Studies Department, Northwestern University, 7 May 2014.

I gave an invited, public lecture, “A People of One Book: A Bible-Saturated Century”, for the Passages Bible Museum Lectures Series Green Scholars Initiative, Springfield, Missouri, 22 April 2014.

I gave a paper entitled “Anthropologists and Missionaries” at the first ever joint meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society and the American Society of Church History, Oxford, England, 3-5 April 2014.

I gave an invited paper at the main, unifying seminar for all anthropologists at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University entitled, “Victor Turner, Anthropology, and Christianity”, 7 February 2014.

I gave an invited lecture, “The War between Science and Faith?”, for the American Scientific Affiliation, Wheaton, Illinois, 23 January 2014.

I was the Chair for the session, “Evangelicalism in Modern Britain Turns 25: Re-examining David Bebbington’s ‘Quadrilateral’ Thesis’”, American Society of Church History, Washington DC, 3 January 2014. This session was funded by the Maclellan Foundation.

I gave an invited, plenary, keynote address, “The Bible and Belief in Victorian Britain”, as the Jane Stedman Lecturer at the annual conference of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Cleveland, Ohio, 12-14 April 2013. The theme for the conference was “Victorian Belief / Victorian Doubt”.

External Examiner for Robert Lewis Knetsch, “The Theological Reception of the Book of Isaiah in the Nineteenth-Century Church of England”, PhD thesis, Wycliffe College, Toronto, 2013. (Oral Defence: 21 March 2013).

“Frazer, Anthropology and the Bible”. I was fully funded to be consultant for the Bible and Antiquity in the Nineteenth Century Project, University of Cambridge, for a week and to give this invited, plenary paper at its “Anthropology and Religion in the Nineteenth Century” conference, 14 March 2013. My respondent was David Maxwell, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge.

“American Evangelicalism.” I gave this lecture to the annual consultation of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the World Evangelical Alliance, Wheaton, Illinois, 18 October 2012.

“The Victorian Crisis of Doubt.” I gave this invited, plenary paper at the conference “The Cross and the Book: Sacred and Secular in the Age of Browning”, Baylor University, 20 September 2012.

“J. G Frazer, Anthropology, and Christianity”. I gave this paper at the Themes in Religious History Seminar, Oxford University, 28 May 2012.

“J. G. Frazer, Anthropology, and Christianity.” I gave this paper at the Modern Religious History Seminar, University of London, London, 9 May 2012.

“British Social Anthropologists and the Christian Faith.” I gave this presentation at the Visiting Fellows Colloquium, All Souls College, Oxford University, 1 May 2012.

Together with Keith Johnson, I co-convened a conference on “Bonhoeffer, Christ, and Culture,” Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, 12-14 April 2012. I also gave a plenary paper, “Bonhoeffer’s Reception by Evangelicals.”

“How Bible Reading Saved Civilization”. I gave this invited, public lecture for the Passages Bible Museum Lectures Series, Green Scholars Initiative, Atlanta, 31 January 2012.

“E. B. Tylor Anthropology: British Christianity and Savages.” I presented this paper at the American Society of Church History annual conference, Chicago, 6 January 2012.

I gave a plenary paper on “The KJV in Nineteenth-Century Britain” at the KJV@400 conference, Dunham Bible Museum, Houston Baptist University, 28-29 October 2011.

I was the keynote speaker for the Southwest Christianity and Literature conference, Hardin Simmons University, Abilene, Texas, 29 Sept. – 1 Oct. 2011. The theme of the conference was, “Honest Doubt and Questing Faith.” I delivered a plenary lecture, “The Victorian Crisis of Doubt”, and the banquet address, “The Bible in Victorian Culture”, as well as participating in the concluding panel.

I gave the W. Stanford Reid Lectures, Tyndale University College and Seminary, Toronto, 28 September 2011. The first lecture was a defence of the discipline of history and the evening lecture was on the Bible in western culture.

I was the speaker for a special session on my monograph A People of One Book at “The King James Bible and the World It Made, 1611-2011” conference, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 7-9 April 2011.

I was a chair and respondent for the panel, “The Near East and American Missions”, at the Conference on Faith and History, George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, 7-8 October 2010.

“Mary Carpenter, Unitarian Education, and Biblical Lands”. I gave this plenary paper at the annual conference of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association, 23-25 April 2010, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

“Evangelicals, the Bible, and the Early Church: A Response.” I gave this invited, plenary contribution at the founding annual gathering of the Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies, 18 March 2010.

“Re-thinking the Conflict between Faith and Science: A Historian’s Perspective”. I gave this invited, public lecture at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, on 28 January 2010.

I was invited, fully funded panellist and chair at the “American Religion in a Post-Secular Society” conference, sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture, and the Department of Religious Studies, Michigan State University, 30-31 October 2009.

I gave the annual, endowed Murray Lectures at Crandall University, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, 19-20 October 2009, on the theme of faith and doubt.

I received full funding from the organizers to present a paper on “The Victorian Crisis of Doubt” at a major conference entitled “Secularization and Revival: The Fate of Religion in Modern Intellectual History”, Baylor University, Waco, Texas,8-10 October 2009.

I led a workshop on “The Bible and the Victorians” at the first ever joint meeting of the North American Victorian Studies Association and the British Association of Victorian Studies, Churchill College, Cambridge, 13-15 July 2009.

I received full funding from the Centre for Dissenting Studies, Dr Williams’s Library, London, and the University of London, Queen Mary, to be an invited, plenary speaker at their conference on “Dissent and the Bible”, 23 May 2009. The title of my paper was: “The Bible and Varieties of Nineteenth-Century Dissent: Elizabeth Fry, Mary Carpenter, and Catherine Booth”.

I received full funding from the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group to participate in a symposium entitled “Cities of God”, 9-10 January 2009, Cambridge University. My paper was on the Victorian archaeological discovery of Nineveh. (A volume arising from this conference with my paper in it has since been published by Cambridge University Press.)

Together with Jeffrey Greenman, I organized a conference entitled, “Reading the Decalogue through the Centuries”, held at Wheaton College 6-7 November 2008. I also present a research paper myself on Christiana Rossetti.

I was a speaker and panellist at the Christian Theological Research Fellowship section of the American Academy of Religion at its annual meeting in Chicago, 1 November 2008. This session, which was entitled “Contesting Evangelicalism”, was devoted to discussing my co-edited book, The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology.

I presented a paper entitled, “Florence Nightingale, Liberal Anglicans, and the Bible in the Nineteenth Century”, at Gordon College, Massachusetts, 24 October 2008, as part of my CCCU consultation.

I gave my inaugural lecture in the Carolyn and Fred McManis Chair of Christian Thought, 22 September 2008, Wheaton College, Illinois. It was entitled, “Literacy and Biblical Knowledge: The Victorian Age and Our Own”.

I gave a plenary address entitled, “’War Is Over, If You Want It’: Beyond the Conflict between Faith and Learning”, at the Redemption of Reason conference, University of Chicago, 2 November 2007.

“Good Book and Holy Land: Historical Perspectives on Anglo-American Christians’ Critical Engagement with the Bible and the Middle East” consultation, Baylor University, 28-29 September 2007. I gave a paper at this event entitled, “Austen Henry Layard’s Nineveh” and my paper, “E. B. Pusey and Holy Scripture”, was the basis of a workshop discussion.

I gave an invited, public lecture entitled “Defining and Locating Evangelicalism” for the Stead Center for Ethics and Values, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, 26 September 2007.

I was an invited, fully-funded panellist for all the sessions at the following conference, “European Religion / American Religion: Why the Difference?”, University of Iowa, 20-21 April 2007.

I gave the following, invited address to the committee of the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, University of Cambridge, “Biblical Studies Today, Victorian Studies, and the Reception History of the Bible”, 14 March 2007.

I gave the following, invited paper, “Conversions, Deconversions, and Reconversions in the Lives of Victorian Secularists”, to the Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar, Faculty of History, Cambridge University, England, 6 February 2007.

I gave the following, invited paper, “C. H. Spurgeon’s Reading of the Sermon on the Mount”, to the Church History Seminar, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, England, 14 February 2007.

I gave the following, invited paper, “For the Bible and the British: the Reception of Austen Henry Layard’s Nineveh and its Remains (1849)”, to the Modern British History Seminar, Faculty of History, Cambridge University, 22 January 2007.

“Good Book and Holy Land: Historical Perspectives on Anglo-American Christians’ Critical Engagement with the Bible and the Middle East”. This was a collaborative project, 2007-09. My primary collaborators were Stephen Alter, Thomas Kidd, and Sarah Miglio. It was been awarded a $15,000 grant from the CCCU Initiative Program.

I was on the panel, “Recovering Female Interpreters of the Bible”, Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting, 18-21 November 2006, Washington, DC.

Together with Douglas A. Sweeney and Daniel J. Treier, I organized the session “Understanding Recent Proposals on Evangelical Identity” for the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, 15-17 November 2006, Washington DC. In our session, I gave a paper on “Defining Evangelicalism”.

I was a respondent to Professor Mirsoslav Volf paper’s “Remembering Passion: Mistreatment, Memory, and Reconciliation”, at the Seventh Annual Christianity and Culture Conference, Michigan State University, 7 October 2006.

“Doubt, Faith, and Reconversion”. I gave this invited paper to the Colloquium on Religion and History, Notre Dame University, Indiana, on 5 April 2006.

$5,450 Aldeen Grant awarded in March 2006 in order to facilitate my 2007 Sabbatical work on “A People of One Book: Religion and the Victorians”.

“Pioneer Girls: Mid-Twentieth-Century American Evangelicalism’s Girl Scouts”. I gave this invited, plenary paper at a conference sponsored by the Royal Historical Society: “Christian Youth Movements”, 17-19 February 2006, University of Birmingham, England.

“The Reception Given David Bebbington’s Evangelicalism in Modern Britain since Publication”. I am giving this paper at a themed session at the national annual conference of the Evangelical Theological Society, 18 November 2005, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

Together with Dr Jeffrey Greenman and Dr Stephen Spencer, I organized a conference entitled “Reading the Sermon on the Mount: Classic Christian Resources for Moral Formation”, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, 3-5 November 2005. Speakers included Stanley Hauerwas, Robert Wilken, Mark Noll, Margaret M. Mitchell, Robert Wilken, David Lyle Jeffrey, William T. Cavanaugh, and Susan E. Schreiner. We were awarded a $5,000 grant from the Center for Applied Christian Ethics (CACE) for this conference. I gave a research paper myself on Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s reading of the Sermon on the Mount.

I developed the theme, “Women, Ministry, and the Gospel” for the 14th Annual Wheaton College Theology Conference, 7-8 April 2005, Wheaton, Illinois, and, together with Mark Husbands, organized and convened the conference. I also gave a plenary paper entitled, “Women in Public Ministry: A Historic Evangelical Distinctive”.

I organized the panel, “The Christian Historian and Women’s History”, and was myself the chair as well as one of the panellists, for the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Hope College, Holland, MI, 14-16 October 2004. The other panellists were Anita Specht, Sue Horner, and Melissa Franklin Harkrider.

I was the commentator for the panel session, “Victorian Preachers”, at the annual meeting of the Western Conference on British Studies, San Antonio, Texas, 8-9 October 2004. The research papers were by Robert H. Ellison, Denis Paz, and Keith Francis.

I was a respondent to D. G. Hart at an event sponsored by Books & Culture and the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, “What Must Evangelicalism Do To Be Saved?”, 14 April 2004, Wheaton College.

I gave an invited, plenary paper entitled, “Joseph P. Free and the Romance of Biblical Archaeology”, at the opening session of the Wheaton College 48th Annual Archaeology Conference, Wheaton College, IL, 14-15 November 2003.

“Charles Bradlaugh and Popular Polemics against Miracles in Nineteenth-Century Britain”. I gave this paper at the annual conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society at the University of Exeter, England, 23-26 July 2003.

Together with Dr Jeffrey Greenman, I developed and convened the conference “Reading Romans: Encounters with the Epistle to the Romans through the Centuries”. St Michael’s College, University of Toronto, 28-29 May 2002. Speakers included Timothy George, John Webster, Mark Noll, Gerald Bray, Christopher Hall, and Pamela Bright.

“A Nonconformist Conscience? Free Churchmen in Parliament in the Nineteenth Century”. I gave this invited, plenary paper at a conference, “Parliament and Dissent”, hosted by the journal, Parliamentary History, in July 2002 at Dr Williams’s Library, London.

Together with George Marsden, Kurt Peterson, and Boyd Taylor Coolman, I was on the panel, “Teaching Church History in Confessional Contexts: Pedagogy and Instruction Utilizing Disciplinary Methodology” at the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Huntington College, IN, October 2002.

I developed a concept for a conference and recruited Professor David Bebbington to co-convene it with me. It was entitled “Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations” and was held at Westminster College, Cambridge, 12-15 July 2001. Speakers included W. R. Ward, Hugh McLeod, Clyde Binfield, Richard Carwardine, Alan Sell, David Cornick, David Thompson, Elaine Kaye, Sheridan Gilley, Frances Knight, and John Briggs.

I gave an invited, plenary paper on “Dissent and Reform” at the Past and Present conference: “Rethinking the ‘age of reform’: Britain circa 1780-1850” in July 2000, St Anne’s College, Oxford.

I gave an invited paper at the University of London’s Modern Religious History Research Seminar, on 9 March 1998. It was entitled, “Thomas Cooper and Christian Apologetics in Victorian Britain”.

“Thomas Cook, Holy Land Pilgrims, and the Dawn of the Modern Tourist Industry”. I gave this paper at the annual conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society, Warwick University, England, in July 1998.

“‘How Many Sisters Make A Brotherhood?’ Ecclesiology and Gender in Early Nineteenth-Century English Dissent.” I gave this paper at the annual conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society, at the University of Kent at Canterbury, in England, in July 1996.

“Bishop Colenso and the Bible”. I gave this invited, plenary paper at the annual conference of the Study Group on Christianity and History (Scotland), at the University of Stirling, in October 1995.

“Victorian Nonconformity and the Memory of the Ejected Ministers.” I gave this paper at the annual conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society, at the University of East Anglia, England, in July 1995.

“Living by Faith: Classical and Contemporary Views on the Proper Way to Pay Christian Workers Amongst the Open Brethren in the United States.” I gave this paper at the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) on the theme of “Biblical Theology”, Bethel Theological Seminary, 16-17 March 1990.

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PUBLICATIONS WITH REVIEW EXCERPTS:

Larsen, T. 2018 John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

“A wonderful scholarly treatment of Mill and religion, and this book is also a delightful, highly suspenseful read as to where his life will end up. After finishing this book I paid the author the highest compliment, namely I ordered his other books.” —Tyler Cowen, George Mason University and Marginal Revolution blog

“Timothy Larsen’s new book has successfully found its niche. . . . The author is a distinguished historian of Christian thought with major works in his record, not least on Victorian religious culture and thought. . . . the book is a very welcome addition to Mill scholarship and does settle some important scores on where the ‘Saint of Rationalism’ stood with regard to religion.” —English Historical Review

“Timothy Larsen has produced what must rank as one of the briefest and by far the most original and exciting of the intellectual biographies of this Victorian giant. . . . The case that Larsen puts forward is compelling and must force scholars to a reassessment of the Victorian liberal philosopher’s whole ‘system’, particularly in the sphere of politics, ethics and logic.” —Journal of Ecclesiastical History

“Larsen’s book is a valuable contribution to Mill studies. I have no hesitation about recommending it to anyone with an interest in either Mill or Victorian spirituality.”

—Dale E. Miller, Nineteenth-Century Prose

“John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life is an unusual work in the field of Mill studies, but one that is scholarly, provocative, and original. It is biographically oriented . . . and it happily demonstrates how Mill’s life can shed light on his philosophical claims. . . . Larsen makes a powerful case for [his thesis] with one telling detail after another—details often pulled from neglected letters and life experiences . . . Again, Larsen’s reading of Mill reflects many sources, all of which end up mutually and forcefully complementing each other.” —Bart Schultz, Journal of British Studies

“This delightfully absorbing new biography”—Reading Religion

“This excellent book forms part of a series of ‘Spiritual Lives.’ . . . The book more than delivers on this promise. Those not familiar with Mill’s life and work will find an excellent introduction to Mill’s social milieu, friends, loves, political activity, and key works. . . . Key events and works are dealt with in a scholarly but very accessible way, and lovely vignettes of more personal moments in Mill’s life are included. . . . The whole book has an engaging tone – a generous, nuanced and non-judgemental stance is taken, which though not uncritical, yet endeavours to understand, and does so with great empathy. . . . For those already familiar with much of Mill’s personal life and his key works (and even his less well-known works) there is also much to learn and enjoy. Undeniably, the book’s greatest strength is not only Larsen’s evident mastery of the details of Mill’s engagement with religion . . . but his excellent knowledge, and impressive understanding, of the cultural and religious context in which Mill moved and wrote.” —Religious Studies

“Most significantly, Larsen offers the first close reading of Mill’s ‘Theism’ essay that this philosopher has encountered . . . . And for those later disciples who are embarrassed by these claims, and apt to write them off as late lapses of Mill’s rational acuity (or attributable to his devout stepdaughter, Helen Taylor), Larsen offers a comprehensive retrospective account of Mill’s corpus and correspondence to unearth these sympathies across Mill’s life.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

Larsen, T. 2018 George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles: Incarnation, Doubt, and Reenchantment, Downers Grove: IVP Academic.

“Rarely, if ever, does a theologian grasp the essentials of luminaries such as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, G. K. Chesterton, and Madeleine L’Engle. But her, in this exquisitely argued, beautifully crafted, and elegantly written thesis, Timothy Larsen offers a beguiling meditation on incarnation, doubt, and re-enchantment. With careful and nuanced focus on George MacDonald, Timothy Larsen has produced a poised, sumptuous, and sublime theological essay—worthy, indeed, of Lewis, Chesterton, Tolkien, L’Engle, and MacDonald. This is Christian apologetics at its best and from one of the finest public intellectuals writing in our time.” —Martyn Percy, Dean, Christ Church, Oxford

“This breaking the barrier between ‘scholarly’ and ‘popular’ work is, I suggest, a significant achievement on Larsen’s part” —Fides et Historia

“This book will be of interest to anyone who enjoys or is interested in George MacDonald and is an excellent example of a book that can keep both scholars and non-experts engaged from beginning to end.” —Reviews in Religion and Theology

Larsen, T. and Johnson, K. 2019 (eds), Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson, Downers Grove: IVP Academic.

“This volume is the happy fruit of a substantial conference on the novels of Marilynne Robinson, and because the focus is so sharp, it has more coherence than many books that come out of conferences.” —Richard Harries, Church Times

Larsen, T. 2019 “Joseph Ratzinger on the Nativity of Our Lord: Protestants and Catholics Reunite for Christmas,” in Emery de Gaál and Matthew Levering (eds), Joseph Ratzinger and the Healing of the Reformation-Era Divisions, Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Academic.

“Another essay in which canonical exegesis plays an important role is Timothy Larsen’s “Joseph Ratzinger on the Nativity of the Lord: Protestants and Catholics Reunite for Christmas,” which I have to admit was—to my great surprise—my favorite chapter in the book. . . . Looking at the Table of Contents, I thought this would be the least interesting of all the cahpters. How could Christmas, that all-too-familiar annual holiday have anything to do with the Reformation-Era divisions? In the end, this turned out to be precisely the article that set me running around the apartment in excitement.” —Nova et Vetera

Larsen, T. and Ledger-Lomas, M. (eds) 2017 The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (General Editors, Timothy Larsen and Mark A. Noll: The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, 5 vols.)

“The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions is an important, illuminating and well-produced volume. Compared with the multi-volume Oxford History of Anglicanism, this new multi-volume series is perhaps even more innovative, since it is genuinely without precedent . . .Overall, the volume is an exemplary demonstration of effective collaborative scholarship on a religious movement of central importance to the era it covers and of continuing importance to global Christianity.” —History

“Timothy Larsen and Mark Noll are to be warmly congratulated for persuading Oxford University Press to complement its five-volume Oxford History of Anglicanism with a parallel series on Protestant Dissenting Traditions. The present substantial book is the first of the series to appear, expertly edited by Timothy Larsen and Michael Ledger-Lomas, of King’s College, London. . . . As a learned and concise summary of key themes in the history of the Protestant Dissenting traditions, distilling the work of established scholars and incorporating the latest research, this is a very welcome volume, and the rest of the series is awaited with eager anticipation.”

—Wesley and Methodist Studies

“For this volume Larsen and Ledger-Lomas have certainly assembled an impressive group of specialists (including themselves) . . . Larsen, in a masterpiece of compression, investigates the Congregational (or Independent) churches” —English Historical Review

Larsen, T. and King, Daniel J. 2018 “The Dependence of Sociocultural Anthropology on Theological Anthropology”, in J. Derrick Lemons (ed.) Theologically Engaged Anthropology, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

“There contributions [Mary Douglas, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Victor Turner] have been well explored by Larsen (2014), a joint contributor with King, who, in chapter 3, supplies one of the better essays in the collection.” —Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change

Larsen, T. 2014 The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Named the Book of the Year for 2014 by Books & Culture.

(I am the only author to win this honor twice.)

Finalist for the 2016 Arlin G. Meyer Prize.

“This is a startling book. Many anthropologists do not realize how deeply religious many of the great anthropologists of religion have been. The Slain God raises the question of how faith shapes what the anthropologist sees, and it will change the way the reader thinks about the answer.” —Tanya Luhrmann, Watkins University Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University

“Larsen shines a bright sidelight on the history of social anthropology and its treatment of Christianity.” —Jonathan Benthall, Times Literary Supplement

“Larsen’s book is beautifully written and based on the most patient scrutiny of every scrap of evidence. It provides an authoritative account of some of anthropology’s most influential practitioners.” —David Martin, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, London School of Economics

“In his latest book, The Slain God, Timothy Larsen provides a compelling account of the complex relationship between anthropology and the Christian faith . . . His is the first book-length study of the relationship between anthropology and Christianity and as such is of interest to anyone who wishes to understand this relationship better. The book is also particularly timely in view of the recent resurgence of interest in these issues in the anthropology of Christianity.” —Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford

“This book will be greeted as something of a bombshell amongst anthropologists of religion. . . . a highly original book that should be with us for a long time to come.”

—Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University

“Larsen . . . presents precious insights into the history of modern anthropology . . .In passionate and engaging prose, Larsen brilliantly upends the anthropologists’ language to explain their own thoughts . . . the book offers, if read carefully and patiently, nothing short of thaumazein (wonderment)” —Khaled Furani, American Ethnologist

“Larsen’s engaging, almost novelistic style . . . The author’s own well-established credentials as a historical theologian and exhaustive knowledge of his subjects enables him to weave into his narrative extensive, concrete, and colourful details, thus engendering a convincing read. This quality makes the book enjoyable for all readers but exceptionally appropriate for beginning students. . . . sophisticated wit and graceful prose. Highly recommended to advanced general readers as well as to specialists.”

—Church History

“Larsen provides a most satisfying study . . . Beautifully written and carrying lightly an immense amount of historical and literary research well placed in the extensive footnotes to each chapter, one is impressed with the fullness of Larsen’s explorations . . . By bringing so many strands together in a remarkably complete documentation of all sources, Larsen’s work stands as difficult to refute by those intoxicated with the fable that anthropology is of its nature secular, that all religion is illogical and beyond analytical remit, save to destroy it and that faith is incompatible with the good works of the discipline.” —New Blackfriars

“The Slain God is commendable in its scope and depth, well executed in its writing, and rich in insight. It will reward careful study by students of anthropology, cultural theory, contemporary theology, and modern religious history.” —Journal of Religion

“Larsen, a man of great wit and empathy, has produced a study in monumental irony.”

—Fides et Historia

“One of the many virtues of Larsen’s study is its revealing of the ‘all too human’ character of the scholarship of the anthropologists he examines.”

—Christian Smith, First Things

“This well-documented and well-written book is an interesting account of the lives and works of some of the most influential anthropologists and their own Christian faith, or lack thereof. . . . This is a welcome contribution to the history of anthropology, and to the growing body of literature that reflects on Christianity’s influence on shaping the discipline, and on the complex, often difficult, relationship between the two. This book is relevant to researchers and students alike, who have a general interest in anthropology, and a particular interest in the study of Christianity from an anthropological perspective. . . . Larsen’s narrative and sharp observations skilfully weave together authors’ biographical experiences with their theoretical and ethnographic findings. . . . I hope this book will break for good certain unspoken taboos in the discipline that one cannot be at the same time a serious anthropologist and a practising ‘believer’.”

—Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“This well-written and finely research book . . . should be widely discussed in a variety of circles concerned with anthropology, religious studies, theology and the history of religion.” —Journal of Ecclesiastical History

“Readers interested in continuing debates over faith, science and secularism will find much of value in this very important book. The further you get into the book, the more astonished you are that no predecessor has written such a full-length study of this critically important topic.” —Philip Jenkins

“Larsen’s volume is impressive in its depth and scope. This informative study will be a resource for students and academics . . . Larsen’s book is a groundbreaking and meticulously developed project that demonstrates the relevance of personal faith and religious experience within anthropology research and discourse.”

—Theological Studies

“His book is valuable for demonstrating the enduring force of Christianity in a discipline so often identified with its rejection.” —Comparative Studies in Society and History

“The Slain God is a profoundly humanising account of the relationship between its protagonists and faith . . . Part of what makes Larsen’s narrative so enjoyable is his humour and wit when highlighting the ironies of the positions and works of his protagonists. . . . The Slain God also has a wider significance among those who have an interest in the relationship between faith and doubt” —Religion

“As in his earlier work, Larsen disrupts a teleological vision of religion condemned to disappear before the forces of progress and modernity. He is to be congratulated for challenging this narrative head-on and confronting what amounts to anti-religious bias in the human sciences.” —Journal of Theological Studies

“Larsen’s The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith was an eye-opening read (and perhaps for others, an openly revelatory read as well). That book presents the discovery of a generation of influential mid-twentieth-century British anthropologists who were deeply informed by their Christian faith. For many academics, these findings drastically changed their reading of much of this era of anthropology. It also led many scholars to reevaluate the already complicated narrative about secularization and disbelief within the discipline.” —Syndicate

“The best source on Edie [Turner]’s life is chapter 5 of the superb book The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith by Timothy Larsen.” —Savage Minds: Notes and Queries on Anthropology

“Larsen’s book is clearly and delightfully written. It is, he says, the first book-length study of the subject, and it is as welcome as it is overdue.” —Peter J. Leithart

“Witty, penetrating, following the evidence where it leads, this book is a great delight.” —John Wilson, Books & Culture

Larsen, T. 2011 A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

“These chapters not only shed fascinating light on the people considered, together they provide a valuable overview of the religious history of 19th century Britain. . . . Larsen has something fresh and original to say about everyone he discusses.” —Church of England Newspaper (first choice of its “pick of the best books to buy”)

“In this sprightly new study, Timothy Larsen richly documents the appeal the Bible had not only for Victorians adults but for their children as well. . . . About Newman’s great friend Edward Pusey, Larsen is revelatory, seeing him not merely as a controversial champion of episcopacy but a first-rate biblical scholar. . . . A People of One Book is far-ranging. Larsen has chapters on what a vital role the Bible played among Evangelicals, Roman Catholics, Anglo-Catholics, Methodists, Quakers, Unitarians, Dissenters, Agnostics, even Atheists. And what is more impressive, he manages to show each of these different traditions true critical sympathy. There is also much lively biography. . . . Larsen is particularly good on Huxley, who, for all his contempt for what he regarded as the credulity of Christian belief, loved the Bible.” —Weekly Standard

“Larsen’s book brilliantly and engagingly illuminates the extent to which the Victorians were ‘a people of one book’ by exploring the hold of the Bible in the lives and writings of 12 representative figures. Commendably and refreshingly more than half his case studies are of women.” —History Today

“Larsen has documented the importance of the Bible in the nineteenth century in places where you would least expect to find it, and has given us some clues as to the reasons for its importance. His argument undermines the theory of secularization, the notion that modernity always undermines religion.” —Victorian Studies

“Larsen’s careful research and accessible style will make this one of the classic works on the period for many years to come.” —American Historical Review

“In this superb book [Timothy Larsen] . . . challenges our assumptions, breathes new life into a stale historiographical orthodoxy and paves the way for important future research. That’s quite a hat-trick but even more impressive is the fact that his book is sufficiently witty and accessible to appeal to a very broad readership. . . . This is an outstanding book. The biographical studies are pithy, the learning is worn lightly, and many lazy assumptions are punctured.” —Catholic Herald

“In this excellent study the author succeeds in displaying the sheer variety of ways in which the Bible permeated Victorian life and thought. His chosen methodology is to provide case studies of ‘representative’ figures from a wide range of religious and sceptical traditions, and the results are hugely rewarding. . . . Larsen has given us a rich work which shows how Victorian culture and society was characterised by its ‘sustained engagement with this singular text’.” —Journal of Ecclesiastical History

“In his erudite treatment of these dozen representative figures, Larsen, the McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College, offers a virtual survey of the Victorian religious landscape.” —Journal of Religion

“The contemporary lack of biblical knowledge in Western societies is not fully appreciated until contrasted with another era when familiarity with the Bible was commonplace even among the fiercest critics of religion. In this insightful and well-researched volume, Larsen provides such a vantage point by exploring the prominence of the Bible in the cultural milieu of nineteenth-century Great Britain. . . . Larsen elucidates the place of the Bible in the lives of both believers and nonbelievers, and he convincingly argues that the biblical text functioned as the dominant cultural reference point for the Victorians.” —Religious Studies Review

“A learned and engaging book.” —Journal of Modern History

“This book will be much appreciated by anyone interested in the religious world of nineteenth-century Britain.” —The Historian

“This is a painstakingly, formidably researched study: archives and collections of the papers and letters of several of the figures discussed have been minutely examined, as have countless newspapers and journals, magazines and tracts. Professor Larsen must have immersed himself in hundreds of sermons, biblical commentaries, essays, reviews and biographies to put together the successive case histories. And he has listened, attentively, to these different voices. The result is a recuperative work of patient synthesis, and I cannot imagine the scholar of nineteenth-century religion or literature who would not learn something new from nearly every page.” —Religion and Literature

“This is a powerful book, engagingly and often amusingly written.” —Expository Times

“Timothy Larsen’s A People of One Book should be mandatory reading for anyone studying nineteenth-century British literature and culture . . . Throughout his clear, heavily documented chapters, Larsen continually surprises the reader, often providing valuable correctives to standard views.” —George P. Landow

“Larsen’s research is impressively detailed, and this, combined with a genuine skill in writing his subjects, makes Larsen’s study a fascinating personal account of Victorian public and religious figures.” —New Blackfrairs

“An exceptionally rich and nuanced account . . .” —Christianity Today (five stars)

“This is a rich and thoroughly enjoyable book.” —English Historical Review

“A People of One Book issues a compelling call not to ignore the Bible’s role in shaping the thought and expression of Victorians of all persuasions from devout to skeptical. Presenting deeply informed but not pedantic close readings of archival as well as published material, it asks us not to set aside their Bible reading as ancillary, unsophisticated, and unimportant to their public and private lives. Rather, Larsen invites us to let the figures speak for themselves, to hear them as they give emphatic pride of place to the Bible in their thought and lives.” —Fides et Historia

“Larsen’s book provides a well-researched study of the range of Victorian approaches to the Bible, enabling readers to grasp its centrality in private devotions, family worship, preaching, and public life.” —International Bulletin of Missionary Research

“Timothy Larsen continues to establish his place among the most important historians of Victorian Christianity with A People of One Book, which adds to important previous works on Victorian doubt, British Nonconformity, and the place of Evangelicalism. Larsen’s mastery of the era and his extraordinary familiarity with the rich world of Victorian pamphlets, letters, religious newspapers, and other publications opens up for his readers an always engaging and sometimes startling window into Victorian religious life.” —History: Reviews of New Books

“Lively and informative” —Church Times

“Timothy Larsen’s work forms a substantial contribution to the understanding of the Bible’s presence in Victorian thought.” —English Studies

"This adroitly constructed work demonstrates the centrality of Scripture to nineteenth-century England, tracing this through the representatives of the rival traditions of Victorian Christianity and its critics, with a particular emphasis on women. . . . Here is a salutary reminder to historians of the Victorian era that they may know little about the Bible which was the very foundation of the culture that they are studying: a little like researchers of ancient Rome not knowing Latin." —Journal of Theological Studies

“For demonstrating the surprising longevity and breadth of the Bible’s cultural and linguistic influence, for its imaginative mapping of everyday Bible reading, and for introducing readers to a treasure trove of little-known primary sources, A People of One Book makes a significant contribution to the field.” —Nineteenth-Century Literature

“Another significant contribution to this field, Timothy Larsen’s learned A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians successfully demonstrates ‘the diversity of the ways that Victorians thought about and interpreted the Scriptures’.”

—The Year’s Work in English’s Studies

“Larsen’s book reinforces the view that students of western history need to develop a working knowledge of the Bible. Our age is comparatively ignorant of the Bible’s contents. If students do not become familiar with that book, they risk misunderstanding historical texts. . . . This book is a very serviceable introduction to the religious life of Victorian Britain, and it makes an appropriate plea for greater care in the study of this aspect of Victorian lives.” —Australian Journal of Politics and History

“Larsen’s careful study attempts to rectify errors that have crept into works on Victorian thought and is a welcome addition to the field of historical and religious cultural studies.” —Christianity & Literature

“This splendid volume on the religious thought of the Victorians . . . is hardly less extraordinary than the Book of which it speaks and the people who derived ‘their common cultural currency’ from the Book.” —Heythrop Journal

Larsen, T. 2007 Friends of Religious Equality: Nonconformist Politics in Mid-Victorian England (Studies in Christian History and Thought), Milton Keynes, England: Paternoster Press.

“This reprint of Timothy Larsen’s extremely well-received 1999 study is most welcome. A sure guide to issues of religious equality between 1847 and 1867, Larsen is not frightened of questioning received historiography, regardless of the status of those he criticises.” —Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Larsen, T. 2006 Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England,

Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Paperback edition: 2008).

Named the Book of the Year for 2006 by Books & Culture

“This fits into a pattern which Larsen weaves skilfully throughout his book. Sceptical ideas, he maintains, influenced working-class radicals long before they began to infect the academical elite. . . . Larsen’s thesis is intriguing, and supported with a wealth of erudite evidence. There is indeed something attractive in the idea that the reconverted should be given equal time with the apostates”.

—Sir Anthony Kenny in the Times Literary Supplement

“Larsen’s argument seems to me both convincing and important.”

—Hugh McLeod in Church History

“The secularization thesis, once a common explanatory device in modern cultural inquiry, has lost authority in recent years. Timothy Larsen’s Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth Century England, published in 2006, mounted a particularly effective challenge to the familiar narrative of inexorable religious decline.”

—Journal of Theological Studies (in 2015)

“This is a most valuable and useful book: it is a healthy corrective to the prevailing obsession with the loss of faith in the Victorian era, an obsession that blinds modern historians to the true nature of belief in this period.” —Contemporary Review

“Timothy Larsen challenges this common story, and does so brilliantly in Crisis of Doubt. . . . Thus does Larsen accomplish here revisionist history at its very best . . . The book thus ends with a powerful critique of the standard accounts of growing doubt and the irrevocable loss of faith among intellectuals. . . . Crisis of Doubt is a very welcome and timely study of how powerful many of those commonplace historical narratives can become—and of how important it is that we keep questioning them, especially when it appears that their veracity has become institutionalized and largely unquestioned.”

—Touchstone

“The effectiveness of Larsen’s argument is cumulative. By adding one example after another, he builds up a fascinating picture of the intellectual and emotional turbulence of the world of freethought. This is a really valuable corrective to the fashion for literary scepticism. It raises serious questions about the dominant view of the past shared by the “chattering classes”, and points inexorably towards a much more serious engagement with the idea of Christianity as central to the world-view even of intellectuals in the modern world.” —The Tablet

“Tim Larsen has a keen eye for a good topic, and in Crisis of Doubt he has found his best yet.” —Journal of Ecclesiastical History

“A book which is so well written that it is very hard to put down.”

—Journal of Theological Studies

“Larsen’s overall conclusion seems judicious and on the mark . . . Those interested in understanding the past in the light of the past alone have good reason to offer Larsen unreserved praise.” —Journal of the American Academy of Religion

“Larsen’s account is a significant contribution to the standard historiography of Victorian religion. . . . the historiographic discussion may, in fact, be one of the most generally useful parts of the book, extending far beyond its implications for the study of Victorian religion.” —Journal of Modern History

“One salient work, Timothy Larsen’s Crisis of Doubt (2006), is especially relevant to this discussion. In a critical intervention into the histories of freethought, secularism, and religion, Larsen coins the phrase “crisis of doubt” to cleverly destabilize this dominant narrative. . . . Larsen does well to point to the persistence and viability of religion in the period.” —Michael Recthenwald, Nineteenth-Century British Secularism

“This book seeks to correct a commonplace of English history—that the Victorian age witnessed an irresistible crisis of faith. It succeeds in a compelling and unconventional way. . . . This is predominantly a study of evangelical nonconformity. It thus reflects Larsen’s proven expertise, established since his important study of Victorian Congregationalists, Friends of Religious Equality (1999). Incredibly, this is Larsen’s third book since then. . . . this wonderfully readable book.”

—Anglican and Episcopal History

“Around the case studies Larsen develops a wider argument that merits serious consideration by all historians of Victorian religion and culture.”

—American Historical Review

Larsen, T. 2004 Contested Christianity: The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian Theology, Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press.

“Contested Christianity argues vividly and persuasively that the religious sensibility of the Victorians was so powerful precisely because it was so varied. Tim Larsen is a wonderful guide – wise and witty as well as deeply learned – through the intricate maze of Victorian religious culture, with its cast of sex-mad clergy, pious blasphemers, Bible-toting tourists and 57 varieties of Christian arguing passionately about everything. This is the best kind of history, which reminds us both how different and how familiar the inhabitants of the past can be.” –Peter Mandler, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and editor of the Historical Journal

“Currently the most prolific scholar of the Victorian era is Timothy Larsen.” —David E. Seip, A Victorian Dissenter (2018)

“Scholars will welcome this fine collection of essays, with its insistence that ideas, not least theology, matter far beyond the confines of intellectual history.” —Andrew Porter, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King’s College London, in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research

“An excellent book. Even those of us who are familiar with the history of British Churches in the nineteenth century will learn much form this work. . . . These essays are interwoven with interesting comments and perceptive assessments, which together with the author’s delightful style make this book a joy to read. . . . these side-lights serve to illuminate some of the major themes of the century and left me, for one, wanting to read more.” —Journal of Ecclesiastical History

“As a book that suggests new subjects for investigation in a well-ploughed field, Contested Christianity offers its readers some provocative thoughts and useful lines of inquiry. Its author opens up a world not well known and invites into it both the curious and the unpersuaded. It would be hard to image any scholar picking up this book without some new thought about Victorian Christianity soon forming in his or her mind.” —Church History

“Well-researched and provocatively argued, his book deserves a wide readership. . . . As this incisive analysis shows, Larsen is a historian to watch and Contested Christianity is an original, engaging informative book.” —Books & Culture

“There is much that is important and compelling in the narratives Larsen uncovers. . . . Larsen’s judicious and nuanced reading of several nineteenth-century arguments concerning the Bible carefully resists unhelpful polarities and simplistic interpretations.” —Victorian Studies

“In this spirited and entertaining collection of essays, however, Timothy Larsen demonstrates that the Nonconformist world was more diverse, more daring, and more eccentric, than we have imagined.” —The Anglican Catholic

“this important and well presented collection of essays” —Baptist Quarterly

“There is much in this collection of essays to savor. Larsen has a knack for discerning significance in people, events, ideas and movements that others have overlooked. Equally rewarding is his witty and subtle style. It is difficult to resist Larsen’s enthusiasm as he skillfully and patiently fills in sections of the historical canvas.” —Fides et Historia

“A useful introduction to ways of challenging the more simplistic generalizations made by those historians (unfortunately the majority), who are largely ignorant of theology.”

—Journal of Religion

Larsen, T. 2002 Christabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition (Studies in Modern British Religious History 4), Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press.

“This book, the first to offer a systematic analysis of this religious phase of Christabel’s long life, explores in fascinating ways the relationship between feminism and fundamentalism. In so doing, it makes a significant contribution not only to religious studies but also to women’s and gender history.” —June Purvis, Professor of Women’s and Gender History at the University of Portsmouth, and Founding and Managing Editor of Women’s History Review

“[Christabel Pankhurst] reveals a nuanced picture [and] is evidently the product of considerable research. In raising the complex relationship between feminism and fundamentalist Christianity, Larsen has identified issues of central importance to scholars of both feminist theory and religious studies.” –American Historical Review

“Importantly, Larsen argues that Christabel’s fundamentalism did not mean a disavowal of her earlier feminism. This is a challenge to the dominant view that Christian fundamentalism and feminism are antithetical . . . Although Larsen does not argue that the fundamentalism of the 1920s was marked by gender equality, he does show that these particular sects made more room for women than other churches. Even though Christabel thought of herself as Anglican, the Reformed and Baptist churches in which she preached were much more open to women than the Anglican Church”. –Albion

“This is an important book because it carefully dispels liberal Protestant misconceptions regarding the relationship of conservative Protestantism and feminism.” —The Layman

Larsen, T. 1999 Friends of Religious Equality: Nonconformist Politics in Mid-Victorian England (Studies in Modern British Religious History 1), Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press. (Having gone out of print with Boydell, Friends of Religious Equality was republished in the Studies in Christian History and Thought series, Paternoster Press, in 2007).

“Larsen’s book represents an original and stimulating addition . . . The author is persuasive in his insistence that mid-Victorian Nonconformist politics remained religiously motivated.” –English Historical Review

“It is Timothy Larsen’s purpose in this well-informed, well-written, and generally persuasive book to introduce us to a world in which English Nonconformists plausibly presented themselves as the vanguard of religious, political, and cultural progress. . . . The book is the first volume in a series of Studies in Modern British Religious History

. . . and the volume sets a formidable opening standard.” –Journal of Religious History

“This excellent monograph . . . focuses on the political ideas and outlook of English nonconformists in the two decades between the general election of 1847 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. . . . Larsen has immersed himself deeply and widely in the extensive periodical and pamphlet literature generated by nonconformists, enabling him to reconstruct their views with an authority and subtlety not matched by previous scholars. . . . These comments . . . indicate some of the considerable potential for further research and reflection opened up by this splendid book. Larsen’s labours will ensure that future analysis of the parliamentary impact of Victorian nonconformists is based on a secure understanding of the political implications of their religious ideas.”

—Parliamentary History

“Welcome account of the advancement of religious equality in mid-Victorian England, likely to provoke considerable scholarly debate over an important period in church history.” —Anglican and Episcopal History

“Larsen’s book is the best in print for this important period.”

—Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society

“Scholars and modern Free Churchmen alike are also in Dr Larsen’s debt for this authoritative study.” —Congregational History Circle

“In both cases this leads to the challenging issue that was well expressed by Timothy Larsen’s book Friends of Religious Equality . . . “the old, liberal dilemma of how to treat the illiberal. . .” Writing before 9/11 or 7/7, Larsen went on, tellingly, to reflect on this . . .” —Paul Weller, A Mirror For Our Times: “The Rushdie Affair” and the Future of Multiculturalism, 2009.

“The best discussion of nonconformist political thought is T. Larsen, Friends of Religious Equality”. —Clark and Kaiser (eds), Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Annotated Bibliography.

Larsen, T. and Johnson, K. (eds), 2013 Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture, Downers Grove: IVP.

“Larsen’s piece on the reception of Bonhoeffer in evangelical circles is particularly enlightening.” —Library Journal

“I found the most accessible Timothy Larsen’s description of the varying evangelical reception of Bonhoeffer. . . . His assessment is astute and insightful . . .”

—Evangelicals Now

“Timothy Larsen’s chapter is particularly noteworthy”. —Calvin Theological Journal

“Perhaps the most interesting essay is Timothy Larsen’s ‘The Evangelical Reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’. —Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology

“[Larsen] provides a helpful corrective to the accusation that evangelicals continue to misappropriate Bonhoeffer.” —Theology Today

“Of particular significance is the chapter entitled ‘The Evangelical Reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’. In a brilliant summary of the post-war response to Bonhoeffer’s theology, Timothy Larsen outlines the organic dichotomy between liberal and evangelical commentators who each have claimed Bonhoeffer as their ‘own’.” —The Record (Free Church of Scotland)

Larsen, T., Greenman, J. and Spencer, S. (eds) 2007 The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Pope John Paul II, Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

Named a Book of the Year for 2007 by Hearts and Minds

“Integrative in nature, the essays shed light on the ways each figure’s biblical interpretation informed theological reflection and pastoral vision.” —Interpretation

“If the purpose of this book was to show how the history of Christian thought involves a conversation with Scripture, this volume has certainly done that.” —Review of Biblical Literature

“The editors have indeed provided a fresh lens through which to view the history of Christian thought. The images that emerge delighted and surprised this reviewer . . . Finally, the editors have also succeeded in producing a collection of essays that appeal to a wide-ranging audience. I recommend this volume to all readers of the Toronto Journal of Theology.” —Toronto Journal of Theology

“This helpful set of essays does just what the title proclaims—tracks interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount through major figures of Christian history . . . In each case the author of the essay expertly catches the spirit and content of these major interpreters.”

—Bible Today

Larsen, T. and Treier, D. (eds) 2007 The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

“ ***** This volume offers a judicious sampling of evangelical voices on matters of theological import, sufficient both to suggest the diversity of evangelicalism in the 21st century ant to convey the core convictions that give the term evangelical some meaning . . . Larsen’s opening essay, ‘Defining and Locating Evangelicalism,’ is particularly helpful.” —Christianity Today

“What all the contributors do very well is to offer evangelicalism as an engaging theological companion and one of serious value to the wider theological tradition.”

—Expository Times

“Though a multiauthor work, the Cambridge Companion offers a surprisingly coherent identification of the place of evangelicalism within contemporary Christianity, in large measure due to the working definition of an “evangelical” proposed by co-editor Larsen . . . This is an advance beyond many of the standard approaches to defining evangelicalism.” —Ecclesiology

“Other variations have been offered [on Bebbington’s definition], with perhaps the best of these being the Larsen Pentagon.” —Steven Knowles, Beyond Evangelicalism

“The first article by the first editor is the most important one of the whole volume . . .

The volume can easily be used as a textbook.” —Journal of Reformed Theology

Larsen, T. and Husbands, M. (eds) 2007 Women, Ministry, and the Gospel: Exploring New Paradigms, InterVarsity Press.

“One of the highlights of this book is the arguments presented from various fields of study, such as biblical studies, theology, sociology, and history. Looking through these lenses enlarges the evangelical reader’s vision and brings added clarity to the debate. For example, T. Larsen’s essay, “A Historical Evangelical Distinctive,” is delightfully surprising by effectively refuting those who prejudice evangelicals as historically suppressing women’s voices. . . . I highly recommend this text as one that furthers the discussion in evangelical theology.” —Religious Studies Review

“Overall the editors have marvellously accomplished their objectives, and in many instances we are introduced to newer and/or younger scholars whose work holds out great promise for future, more definitive contributions.” —Denver Journal

Larsen, T. and Greenman, J. (eds) 2005 Reading Romans through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Karl Barth. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

“This helpful book attempts to trace how Paul’s most famous writing has been understood by several of its more influential readers . . . this volume will find appreciative readers from a variety of disciplines (e.g. biblical studies, history, theology) who seek to understand better the role Romans has played in shaping Christian thought.” —Reviews in Religion and Theology

“The volume is rich and substantial.” —Review of Biblical Literature

“The editors provide a helpful introduction . . . One of the most interesting chapters is Timothy Larsen’s treatment of John William Colenso . . . These studies introduce fresh insights into the central place of Romans in Christian thought through the centuries.”

—Toronto Journal of Theology

Larsen, T. and Bebbington, D. (eds) 2003 Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations (Essays in Honour of Professor Clyde Binfield, OBE; Lincoln Studies in Religion and Society 5), London and New York: Sheffield Academic Press (Continuum).

“In this volume, as in Binfield’s own work, fun goes hand in hand with illumination. Fascinating vignettes evoke the flavour of dissenting life, its sense of inferiority and its confidence, its sensitivities, its changing emphases.” –Journal of Ecclesiastical History

“Taken together, the essays not only show the strength of Dissenting cultural aspiration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also its broader cultural influence.”

—Religious Studies Review

Larsen, T. (ed.) 2003 Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, Leicester, England and Dowers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press (IVP).

“An impressive work of collective scholarship and admirably wide-ranging, this Biographical Dictionary will be welcomed by all who have an interest in the history of evangelicals, or in religious history more generally.”—Richard Carwardine, Rhodes Professor of American History, University of Oxford

“The editor is an American who earned his PhD at a Scottish university, taught in a university in England, and a seminary in Canada, and is now professor of theology at the evangelical Mecca, Wheaton College, the source of both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. With this varied background and his scholarly interest in nineteenth-century British Christianity, Larsen is well equipped to straddle the multiple geographic settings of evangelical Christianity.” —Journal of Religious and Theological Information

Larsen, T. and Vickery, J. 2004 For Christ In Canada: A History of Tyndale Seminary, 1976-2001 (foreword by Leighton Ford). Toronto: Tyndale University College and Seminary.

“For Christ in Canada: A History of Tyndale Seminary is a timely book, and we should be grateful to Timothy Larsen for recounting this story.” —Leighton Ford

“To mark the 25th anniversary of one of Canada’s major seminaries, the authors of For Christ in Canada provide a revealing behind-the-scenes history. . . . The seminary leaders deserve praise for their courage to publish their story, warts and all.”

—Christian Week

Larsen, T. 2017 “Anthropology” in Gary B. Ferngren (ed.), Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction, second edition, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

“An outstanding exception to the absence of women in this volume is Timothy Larsen’s ‘Anthropology.’ Larsen devotes as much attention to Mary Douglas, Margaret Mead and Edith Turner as he does to E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Emile Durkheim and Victor Turner.” —Early Science and Medicine

Larsen, T. 2017 “Scripture and Biblical Interpretation”, in Stewart J. Brown, Peter B. Nockles, and James Pereiro (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

“One aspect of the Oxford Movement that I confess to forgetting about is the role that scriptural interpretation played in the Tractarians polemical and professional writing. Timothy Larsen’s ‘Scripture and Biblical Interpretation’ reminds us that the genre of scriptural commentary was one that many of the Tractarians engaged. . . . This essay also encouragingly notes the contribution made to the Movement by female voices such as Charlotte Yonge and Christina Rossetti.” —Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion

Larsen, T. 2013 “The Bible and the Varieties of Nineteenth-Century Dissent: Elizabeth Fry, Mary Carpenter, and Catherine Booth”, in Scott Mandelbrote and Michael Ledger-Lomas (eds), Dissent and the Bible in Britain, c. 1650-1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

“A particularly interesting essay by Timothy Larsen compares three nineteenth-century women who arguably inhabited the fringes of dissent (Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, Unitarian education crusader Mary Carpenter, and Catherine Booth, co-founder of the Salvation Army)—all of them influential women and deeply steeped in and motivated by scripture.” —Church History

Larsen, T. 2005 “A Nonconformist Conscience? Free Churchmen in Parliament in Nineteenth-Century England”, Parliamentary History, 24, 1 (April 2005).

“A more effective bridge to the eighteen century is Timothy Larsen’s consideration of the nonconformist conscience. For the first half of the nineteenth century Wesleyans were confused as to whether they felt part of dissent or not: they had to wrestle with the ‘nonconformist conscience’. Larsen, in fact, points to two types of conscience, the moral and evangelical conscience, mostly of the Church of England rather than dissenting; and the ‘true nonconformist conscience’, which was more political and about liberty and equality of worship and pressure to disestablish the church.” —Scottish Historical Review

Larsen, T. 2008 “The Reception Given Evangelicalism in Modern Britain since its Publication in 1989”, in Michael A. G. Haykin and Kenneth J. Stewart (eds), The Emergence of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical Continuities, Nottingham: Apollos (Inter-Varsity Press).

“It opens with a ‘review of the reviews’ by that indefatigable scholar of Victorian religion, Timothy Larsen.” —Evangelical Review of Theology

Larsen, T. 2000 “Thomas Cooper and Christian Apologetics in Victorian Britain”, Journal of Victorian Culture, 5, 2 (Autumn 2000).

“If historians are familiar with Thomas Cooper the Chartist, Cooper the lecturer on Christianity is hardly known at all. T. Larsen first identifies this historiographical gap and then fills it.” —Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature

Larsen, T. 2000 “Thomas Cook, Holy Land pilgrims and the dawn of the modern tourist industry”, in R. N. Swanson (ed.), Holy Land, Holy Lands, and Christian History (Studies in Church History 36), Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press for the Ecclesiastical History Society.

“Highlights include . . . Timothy Larsen on Thomas Cook’s opening of Palestine to Nonconformist package tours.” —English Historical Review

“Timothy Larsen’s entertaining chapter describes how Thomas Cook, a man of relatively humble and Dissenting roots, organized the first modern tour of Palestine in 1869.”

—W. H. C. Frend, Expository Times

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