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According to Wikipedia, George Mish Marsden is an American historian who has written extensively on the interaction between Christianity and American culture, particularly on Christianity in American higher education and on American evangelicalism. He is best known for his award-winning biography of the New England clergyman Jonathan Edwards, a prominent theologian of Colonial America.

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Fundamentalism and American Culture (1980) (407)
Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925 (1981) (363)
Understanding fundamentalism and evangelicalism (1990) (310)
The soul of the American university : from Protestant establishment to established nonbelief (1995) (309)
The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship (1999) (215)
Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism (1989) (88)
Fundamentalism and American culture : the shaping of twentieth-century evangelicalism, 1870-1925 (1982) (88)
Articles of faith (1991) (87)
The evangelical mind and the new school Presbyterian experience : a case study of thought and theology in nineteenth-century America (1971) (79)
The soul of the American university (1994) (78)
The Secularization of the Academy, edited by George M. Marsden and Bradley J. Longfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, v + 323 pp. $35; $15.95 (paper) (1994) (63)
The Search for Christian America (1983) (60)
Religion and American Culture (1990) (56)
Jonathan Edwards: A Life (2003) (51)
Evangelicalism and modern America (1984) (49)
The Fundamentals : a testimony to truth (1988) (39)
Fundamentalism as an American Phenomenon, A Comparison with English Evangelicalism (1977) (32)
A Catholic modernity? : Charles Taylor's Marianist Award lecture, with responses by William M. Shea, Rosemary Luling Haughton, George Marsden, Jean Bethke Elshtain (1999) (19)
Perry Miller's Rehabilitation of the Puritans: A Critique (1970) (13)
Creation versus evolution: no middle way (1983) (13)
The Ambiguities of Academic Freedom (1993) (12)
Phoebe Palmer: Her Life and Thought (1986) (12)
The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief (2014) (11)
Facing the Enlightenment and Pietism: Archibald Alexander and the Founding of Princeton Theological Seminary (1983) (10)
The Divided Mind of Protestant America, 1880–1930. By Ferenc M. Szasz. University: University of Alabama Press, 1982. 196 pp. $19.95 (1983) (9)
Forum: The Decade Ahead in Scholarship (1993) (8)
Is God a Creationist? The Religious Case Against Creation-Science Edited by Roland Mushat Frye New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983. $15.95 (1984) (7)
The Outrageous Idea of Christian Teaching (2019) (7)
Religious Discrimination in Academia (2015) (7)
Prophecies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day (2009) (6)
Matteo Ricci and the Prodigal Culture (1999) (5)
Prologue I (2021) (5)
The Soul of the American University Revisited (2021) (5)
A Compleat (Almost) Guide Through the Forest of Fundamentalism@@@Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism: 1870-1925. (1981) (4)
Newman's Idea and Current Realities" (2017) (3)
Religion, Politics, and the Search for an American Consensus (2007) (3)
A Christian view of history (1975) (2)
The Prism of Scripture: Studies on History and Historicity in the Work of Jonathan Edwards. By Karl Dieterich Pfisterer. Bern, Switzerland: Herbert Lang, 1975. vi + 381 pp. (1978) (1)
A Church with the Soul of a Nation (2021) (1)
Newman, theology and the contemporary university (1998) (1)
Science and salvation (1997) (1)
C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: A Biography (2016) (1)
Can Jonathan Edwards (and His Heirs) be Integrated into the American History Narrative? (2012) (1)
Fighting the Good Fight: A Brief History of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. By D. G. Hart and John Muether. Philadelphia, Pa.: Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 1995. 217 pp. $11.95. (1996) (1)
The Works of Jonathan Edwards. Volume 5, Apocalyptic Writings: Notes on the Apocalypse and An Humble Attempt . Edited by Stephen J. Stein. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. x + 501 pp. (1979) (1)
The Churching of America, 1776–1990: Winners and Losers in our Religious Economy . By Roger Finke and Rodney Stark. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1991. xiv + 328 pp. $22.95. (1993) (1)
Charles Hodge Revisited: A Critical Appraisal of His Life and Work . Edited by John W. Stewart and James H. Moorehead. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2002. x + 375 pp. $25.00 paper. (2006) (1)
Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (review) (2013) (1)
Chapter 5. Anxieties (2017) (0)
Daniel Coit Gilman and the Model for a Modern University (2021) (0)
Response to McClay and Kuklick (2012) (0)
Religion and biology beyond conflict (1985) (0)
Epilogue: An Unexpected Sequel: A Renaissance of Christian Academia (2021) (0)
The New Queen of the Sciences and the New Republic (2021) (0)
Chapter 20. ‘‘Thy Will Be Done’’ (2017) (0)
Outsiders (2021) (0)
THE SECULARIZATION OF THE ACADEMY. (Religion in America.) Edited by (2016) (0)
Orthodoxy at the Gentlemen’s Club (2021) (0)
Epilogue (2021) (0)
Chapter 1. War Service (2016) (0)
Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards By Douglas A. Sweeney New York, Oxford University Press, 2003. 255 pp. $45.00 (2004) (0)
The Soul of the American University Revisited: From Protestant to Postsecular (2021) (0)
Collapse of culture (1996) (0)
God or consilience (1999) (0)
The Intellectual Task of a Theological seminary (1995) (0)
Identity-Informed Teaching in the Pluralistic University (2019) (0)
Appendix: Changes in Mere Christianity Compared to the Original Three Books (2016) (0)
Book Review: The S ecularization of the Modern (1996) (0)
Chapter 8. The Lasting Vitality of Mere Christianity (2016) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Chapter 8. And on a Wider Stage (2017) (0)
A Righteous Consensus, Whig Style (2021) (0)
NOTICE OF POLL Notice is hereby given that (2009) (0)
Response to Reviews of The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship (1998) (0)
Society’s Books of Note (2013) (0)
The Outr ageous Idea of Christian Scholarship, by (2013) (0)
Literal interpretations (1992) (0)
Chapter 4. The Harmony of All Knowledge (2017) (0)
Reflections: Doing American History in a World of Subcultures (2009) (0)
Edwards on the Christian Life (2014) (0)
Jonathan Edwards (2017) (0)
Samuel S. Hill, Jr. The South and the North in American Religion. (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, number 23.) Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1980. Pp. xvi, 152. $12.50 (1981) (0)
Liberal Protestantism without Protestantism (2021) (0)
The Fear of Teachers’ Religious Identity (2019) (0)
Fundamentalism as an Intellectual Phenomenon (2022) (0)
Chapter 22. The Crucible (2017) (0)
Why the academy should include religious perspectives (1996) (0)
Religious Discrimination in Academia (2015) (0)
Is There Really Baptist, Catholic, or Quaker Teaching? (2019) (0)
Ronald Story. Jonathan Edwards and the Gospel of Love. (2013) (0)
Prologue II (2021) (0)
In Praise of Diverse Teaching Contexts (2019) (0)
The Fundamentalist Menace (2021) (0)
Science transcended (1983) (0)
The Arguments for Silence (1998) (0)
The Low-Church Idea of a University (2021) (0)
Summing up (1996) (0)
How Christian Teachers Transform Course Aims and Curricula (2019) (0)
The Christian Legacy in the Age of Science (2021) (0)
Darwin's Forgotten Defenders: The Encounter between Evangelical Theology and Evolutionary Thought . By David N. Livingstone. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1987. xii + 210 pp. (1988) (0)
Prologue III (2021) (0)
Historical and Ecclesiastical Contexts (2021) (0)
The Other Jonathan Edwards: Selected Writings on Society, Love, and Justice Edited by Gerald McDermott and Ronald Story (review) (2016) (0)
Back to Noah Porter’s Yale (2021) (0)
Chapter 7. Critiques (2016) (0)
Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World by Nancy Tatom Ammerman.New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1987. 247 pp. $30.00, ($12.00 pb) (1989) (0)
BEYOND LIBERALISM AND THE CULTURE WARS: PRINCIPLED PLURALISM (2014) (0)
Building Academic Communities (1998) (0)
Fundamentalism By James Barr Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1978. 379 Pp. $7.95 (Paper) (1979) (0)
Searching for a Soul (2021) (0)
Chapter 13. The Hands of God and the Hand of Christ (2017) (0)
The John the Baptist of the German University Ideal (2021) (0)
Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History: The Reenchantment of the World in the age of Enlightenment. By Avihu Zakai. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xx, 348 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-691-09654-6.) (2004) (0)
, Pequot Pastor : A Native American Revisioning of Christian Nationalism in the Early Republic (2017) (0)
Chapter 2. Broadcast Talks (2016) (0)
Dispensationalism and the Baconian Ideal (2022) (0)
Introduction: The Challenge of Identity-Influenced Teaching (2019) (0)
How Christianity Animates a Teacher’s Background Beliefs (2019) (0)
Chapter 5. Into the Evangelical Orbit (2016) (0)
The Obstacles to a Christian Presence (2021) (0)
Chapter 26. Against an ‘‘Almost Inconceivably Pernicious’’ Doctrine (2017) (0)
The Twenty-First-Century Postsecular University (2021) (0)
Abbreviations and Short Titles for Notes (2016) (0)
The Trouble with the Old-Time Religion (2021) (0)
The Positive Contributions of Theological Context (1998) (0)
Two types of fundamentalist (1983) (0)
The Burden of Christendom (2021) (0)
Why Christian Perspectives Are Not Welcomed (1998) (0)
What Difference Could It Possibly Make (1998) (0)
The American Research University@@@The Politics of Political Correctness@@@Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America.@@@From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief: The Soul of the American University. (1995) (0)
Fighting the Good Fight: A Brief History of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church . By D. G. Hart and John Muether. Philadelphia, Pa.: Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 1995. 217 pp. $11.95. (1996) (0)
Chapter 27. Original Sin ‘‘in This Happy Age of Light and Liberty’’ (2017) (0)
When Christian Teaching Is Really Outrageous (2019) (0)
Arno C. Gaebelein, 1861–1945: Irenic Fundamentalist and Scholar . By David A. Rausch. Studies in American Religion 10. New York: Edwin Mellen Press. vii + 297 pp. $49.95. (1985) (0)
Response, forum on 1992 presidential address, "The ambiguities of academic freedom," Church History, June 1993: (Scott Appleby, Thomas G. Alexander, Randall Balmer, and Amanda Porterfield, commentators) (2005) (0)
Tremors of Controversy (2022) (0)
Four Views circa 1910 (2022) (0)
Christian Scholarship and the Rules of the Academic Game (1998) (0)
Chapter 9. The Mighty Works of God and of Satan (2017) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Two Kinds of Sectarianism (2021) (0)
Harvard and the Religion of Humanity (2021) (0)
Chapter 3. Loved or Hated (2016) (0)
World War I, Premillennialism, and American Fundamentalism: 1917–1918 (2022) (0)
Thinking and Acting Christianly in the Classroom (2019) (0)
Would the Liberals Be Driven from the Denominations? 1922–1923 (2022) (0)
Chapter 4. A Classic as Afterthought (2016) (0)
Liberal Protestantism at Michigan (2021) (0)
Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism: 1870-1925@@@The Evangelical Alliance for the United States of America, 1847-1900: Ecumenism, Identity and the Religion of the Republic (1984) (0)
Old, Rested, and Reformed: Reflections on the Recovery of Edwards (2020) (0)
Prologue: The Paradox of Revivalist Fundamentalism (2022) (0)
Christian Teaching in the Pluralistic University (2019) (0)
Presbyterians and the Truth (2022) (0)
Calvinist Freedom Fighters@@@Edwards on the Will: A Century of American Theological Debate. (1990) (0)
Chapter 6. Many-Sided Mere Christianity (2016) (0)
The Great Divide@@@The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II. (1989) (0)
The Elusive Ideal of Academic Freedom (2021) (0)

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