Mark David Hall (born 22 February 1966)[1] is a professor in Regent University's Robertson School of Government and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy, an initiative of the First Liberty Institute.
His primary teaching fields are political theory, constitutional law, and religious liberty / church–state relations in America.
In particular, his writing is often concerned with the perception that the Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state.
Instead, he argues that there are good reasons to believe that many founders were influenced by orthodox Christianity and that virtually none of them favored anything approximating a contemporary understanding of a wall of separation.
[2] Hall argues that the modern conception has negatively affected how the Supreme Court has interpreted the religion clauses of the First Amendment.