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Mark Noll to Offer Payton Lectures

Mark Noll, the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, will offer this year's Payton Lectures Wednesday and Thursday, April 9 and 10, on the theme "Then Sings My Soul: The Significance of Hymns for Evangelicals."

The lectures, to take place from 10:00 to 10:50 a.m. both days in Travis Auditorium, are free and open to the public. Each lecture will be followed by responses from Fuller faculty as well as a time for questions and answers. Noll's books will be available for sale and signing both days.

Noll's first lecture, on April 9, is entitled "Arise, My Soul, Arise: Hymns and the Origins of Evangelicalism, 1707-1780." The second, on April 10, will address "From 'The Ninety and Nine' to 'Majesty': Hymns and the Two Transformations of Modern Evangelicalism, 1870 to the Present."

After 27 years on the faculty of Wheaton College, Noll joined the history department of the University of Notre Dame in 2006. His main academic interests concern the interaction of Christianity and culture in 18th- and 19th-century Anglo-American societies. He has published articles and reviews on a wide variety of subjects involving Christianity in modern history. Noll was named by Time magazine as one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America in 2005, and in 2006 he received the National Humanities Medal.

The Payton Lectures were instituted at Fuller Theological Seminary in 1949 in memory of Dr. and Mrs. John E. Payton, parents of the late Mrs. Charles E. Fuller. They are sponsored annually by the Ministry Division of the School of Theology at Fuller. For more information about this year's lectures, call 626-584-5300 or email theology@fuller.edu.