Mark Noll: Remembering George Rawlyk – Lessons from Canada’s Christian Past for Canada’s Christian Future

You’re invited to Regent’s 2024 Evening Public Lecture series! Join us in the chapel or tune in online to explore theology, culture, and much more with this year’s summer faculty.

To livestream this and other Evening Public Lectures, visit us at rgnt.net/live.

ABOUT THE LECTURE

Canadians over the age of fifty have lived through dramatic changes in the place of Christian faith in their nation. Recalling the life and scholarship of George Rawlyk (1935–95) provides a unique perspective on those changes, as well as suggestions for how Canadian believers may learn from the past in charting a way in their now largely secular country.

As a Queen’s University historian, Rawlyk propelled a resurgence in the study of Christianity in Canada’s past. An evangelical himself, his life suggested ways of navigating the nation’s post-Christendom reality: stressing the importance of immigrant believers for the health of the church, emphasizing the capacity of marginalized Christian communities to strengthen the whole, exercising caution toward Christian influences from the United States, and expecting evangelical faith to change lives even when external conditions were unfavorable.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

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

Dr. Noll has written and edited numerous books, most recently including Evangelicals: Who they Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be (with George Marsden and David Bebbington, Eerdmans, 2019), In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life (Oxford University Press, 2015), From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story (Baker Academic, 2014), Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind (Eerdmans, 2011), and Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa and Asia (co-written with Carolyn Nystrom, IVP, 2011). He has also served on the editorial boards for Books & Culture and Christian History, and as co-editor of Library of Religious Biography for Wm. B. Eerdmans. In 2006 he received the National Endowment for the Humanities medal at the White House. Dr. Noll currently lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife, Maggie.

Dr. Noll is teaching The Bible, Slavery & the American Civil War from May 20 to 24 as part of Regent’s 2024 Summer Programs.

ONSITE AND ONLINE

You can attend this lecture in Regent’s chapel, or watch it live online at rgnt.net/live. A video recording will be available for free online for a limited time after the event.