In fact, he expounds, there has been no such voice since the 1740s when Harvard faculty were enraged by evangelist George Whitefield s publishing of a pamphlet accusing the college of being in spiritual darkness. Dr. Noll has an undergraduate degree from Wheaton, a master s degree from the University of Iowa, and a doctorate from Vanderbilt University. American evangelicals are not exemplary for their thinking, and they have not been so for several generations . . . They have nourished millions of believers in the simple verities of the gospel but have largely abandoned the universities, the arts, and other realms of high culture. While stirring up more questions than he answers, Noll is able to combine his Christian faith with his vocation as a scholar, remaining critical, reflective, questioning, and fair.
Scandal is concise and elegantly written, and ends on a message of hope.
The search for a Christian perspective on life . . . is not just an academic exercise. The effort to think like a Christian is rather an effort to take seriously the sovereignty of God over the world he created, the lordship of Christ over the world he died to redeem, and the power of the Holy Spirit over the world he sustains . . . Noll and his wife,Maggie, a reference librarian at Wheaton College, make their home in Wheaton, Illinois.