Mark A. Noll (PhD Vanderbilt University) is Research Professor of History at Regent College. His books include America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 2002), God and Race in American Politics: A Short History (Princeton University Press, 2008), The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith (IVP Academic, 2009), and Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011).