David N. Hempton
| David N. Hempton |
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| Born |
(1952-02-19) February 19, 1952 |
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| Nationality |
Irish |
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| Fields |
History of Protestant Christianity |
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| Institutions |
Harvard Divinity School |
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| Education |
Queen's University Belfast |
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| Alma mater |
University of St Andrews |
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David Neil Hempton (born 19 February 1952) is an Irish historian of evangelical Protestant Christianity, dean of Harvard Divinity School, and fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[1]
Biography
Hempton was born on 19 February 1952,[2] in Northern Ireland.[3] He earned his B.A. (1974) from the Queen's University Belfast and his Ph.D. (1977) from the University of St Andrews.[4] Hempton began teaching at Queen's University in 1979, where he was professor of modern history and director of the school of history.[4] He joined the faculty of Boston University in 1998, where he was professor of the history of Christianity, and in 2008 named "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" at the divinity school.[3] In 2007, he was appointed as the first Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School,[4] and in 2012 it was announced he would succeed William A. Graham as dean of the school.[3]
Selected publications
- Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750-1850, winner of The Whitfield Prize[5] (1984) ISBN 041555571X
- The Religion of the People: Methodism and Popular Religion C. 1750-1900 (1996) ISBN 0415077141
- Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire (1996) ISBN 0521479258
- Methodism: Empire of the Spirit, winner of the Jesse Lee Prize[6] (2005) ISBN 0300119763
- Evangelical Disenchantment: Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt (2008) ISBN 030014282X
- The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century, winner of the Albert C. Outler Prize[7] (2011) ISBN 184511440X
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