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Grant Wacker

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American historian of religion

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According to Wikipedia, Grant Albert Wacker is an American historian of Christianity in the United States. Education Wacker is a graduate of Stanford University and of Harvard University . Career Grant Wacker is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Christian History at Duke Divinity School. He taught in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1977 to 1992. In 1992 he joined the faculty of Duke Divinity School, where he taught until he partly retired in 2015 and fully retired in 2018. A specialist in American Christian history, Wacker is the author or co-editor of nine books, including Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture , America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation , One Soul at a Time: The Story of Billy Graham , and more than two-hundred published articles, essays, and book reviews. He is past president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, past president of the American Society of Church History, a former senior editor of Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, and a senior trustee of Fuller Theological Seminary. He is an advisory editor of The Christian Century and Religion and American Culture. Along with three teaching awards, he directed twenty-six doctoral students at UNC or Duke.

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