Timothy Larsen

Timothy Larsen is McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College (IL). He is an Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University and has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Christ Church, Oxford. He has been elected the president of the American Society of Church History for 2025. He is the author of eight books including, most recently, John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life (Oxford University Press), and the edited of a dozen volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Christmas.

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single-authored books:

Larsen, T. 2018 John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Larsen, T. 2018 George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles: Incarnation, Doubt, and Reenchantment, Downers Grove: IVP Academic.

Larsen, T. 2014 The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(Named the Book of the Year for 2014 by Books & Culture —only author to win this honor twice. Also: Finalist for the 2016 Arlin G. Meyer Prize.)

Larsen, T. 2011 A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Larsen, T. 2006 Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Named the Book of the Year for 2006 by Books & Culture.)

Larsen, T. 2004 Contested Christianity: The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian Theology, Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press.

Larsen, T. 2002 Christabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition (Studies in Modern British Religious History 4), Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press.

Larsen, T. 1999 Friends of Religious Equality: Nonconformist Politics in Mid-Victorian England( Studies in Modern British Religious History 1), Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press.

edited books:

Larsen, T. (ed.) 2021 Every Leaf, Line, and Letter: Evangelicals and the Bible from the 1730s to the Present, Downers Grove: IVP Academic.

Larsen, T. (ed.) 2020 The Oxford Handbook of Christmas, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Larsen, T. and Johnson, K. 2019 (eds), Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson, Downers Grove: IVP Academic.

Larsen, T. and Ledger-Lomas, M. (eds) 2017 The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (General Editors, Timothy Larsen and Mark A. Noll: The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, 5 vols.)

Larsen, T. and Johnson, K. (eds), 2013 Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture, Downers Grove: IVP Academic.

Larsen, T. and Greenman, J. (eds), 2012 The Decalogue through the Centuries: From the Hebrew Scriptures to Benedict XVI, Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

Larsen, T. and Treier, D. (eds) 2007 The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Larsen, T., Greenman, J. and Spencer, S. (eds) 2007 The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Pope John Paul II, Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

Larsen, T. and Husbands, M. (eds) 2007 Women, Ministry, and the Gospel: Exploring New Paradigms, Downers Grove: IVP Academic.

Larsen, T. and Greenman, J. (eds) 2005 Reading Romans through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Karl Barth. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.

Larsen, T. and Bebbington, D. (eds) 2003 Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations (Essays in Honour of Professor Clyde Binfield, OBE; Lincoln Studies in Religion and Society 5), London and New York: Sheffield Academic Press (Continuum).

Larsen, T. (ed.) 2003 Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, Leicester, England and Dowers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press (IVP).

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