Thomas Albert Howard

[citation needed] He completed his MA (1992) and Ph.D. (1996) at the University of Virginia, concentrating in modern European intellectual and religious history.

He is founding director of Gordon College's honors program, the Jerusalem and Athens Forum,[2] a one-year, great-books course of study in the history of Christian thought and literature.

"[3] He is the author of Religion and the Rise of Historicism;[4] Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University;[5] winner of the annual Lilly Fellows Program Book Award, 2007;[6] and God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide;[7] winner of the Christianity Today Book Awards, 2012.

[8] He is editor of Mark Noll and James Turner, The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue,[9] and Russell Hittinger, John Behr, and C. Ben Mitchell, Imago Dei: Human Dignity in Ecumenical Perspective.

[10] Currently, he is working on three books: The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age (Oxford University Press, forthcoming); Remembering the Reformation: An Inquiry into the Meanings of Protestantism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming); and, edited with Mark Noll, Protestantism after 500 Years?