President’s Distinguished Scholar Lecture: Dr. Mark A. Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, at the DeSantis Family Chapel, 300 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. One of the nation’s foremost scholars of religious and cultural history, Dr. Noll is a prominent participant in dialogues between evangelical and Catholic scholars. Selected in 2005 by “Time” magazine as one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America, Dr. Noll is the author of numerous books, including “God and Race in American Politics,” which traces the explosive political effects when religion and race intermingle. His book “The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind” is about anti-intellectual tendencies within the American evangelical movement and was widely covered in both religious and secular publications. For information, please visit the following web site, http://www.pba.edu/media/news-releases/distinguished-scholar-lecture-2009.cfm, or contact Becky Peeling at (561) 803-2018 or becky_peeling@pba.edu.
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