D. G. Hart

Dr. Hart is the author of many books, such as John Williamson Nevin: High Church Calvinist; A Student's Guide to Religious Studies; Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Era of Billy Graham; Recovering Mother Kirk: The Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition; The Lost Soul of American Protestantism; That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century; With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (co-author); The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies and American Higher Education; Fighting the Good Fight: A Brief History of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (co-author); and Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America.

D. G. Hart is formerly the Director for Partnered Projects at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Previously he was dean of academic affairs and professor of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary in California where he remains an adjunct member of the faculty. Earlier still he directed the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals and taught American history at Wheaton College.

He is an elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Ann.

RECENT POSTS BY D. G. HART

• And the ladies of the club

  This summer gave me the opportunity to participate in the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Honors Program, a week-long conference that met in Baltimore aside the Inner Harbor.… MORE >>

• When cosmopolitanism breeds parochialism

  Peter Berkowitz’s column in the Wall Street Journal from a few weeks ago reminded me of an epiphany I received back when the New Yorker… MORE >> piece on the Koch brothers was generating “buzz.” (Okay, it was more than an epiphany; it was an occasion to throw a knife at the radio.) Berkowitz made the point that highly educated people say really dumb things about political movements, like the Tea Party, because they don’t know American political history.

• When markets fail

  Philadelphia, PA– Anyone who has watched the BBC production of Brideshead Revisited… MORE >> as many times as I have may well understand a desire to travel to Europe not by air but by sea on an ocean liner.

• Boy Scouts win one for moms, apple pie, and the seventh-inning stretch

  The recent decision by a federal jury in Philadelphia on behalf of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is good news for people who love American liberty and for the philanthropies that sustain such voluntary associations.… MORE >>

• No news is good news?

  Foundations and charitable organizations love good publicity for the simple reason that people like to hear good publicity.… MORE >>