Brite Divinity School | Mark G. Toulouse - Professor of American Religious History

m.toulouse@tcu.edu
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Dr. Toulouse is Professor of American Religious History at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. He holds a Ph.D. from The University of Chicago and is the author of numerous articles and books. An ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Dr. Toulouse regularly conducts workshops for ministers and lay people on topics in American Christianity, Disciples history and theology, and theological education. Toulouse was named a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 1997-1998. In 2006, he completed an analysis of the relationship between Christian faith and American public life published by Westminster John Knox under the title God in Public. He and Jeffica, married for thirty years, are parents to three adult children. Besides his research interests in the areas of theology and history, Toulouse has also, on one notable occasion, been published as a sports photographer.

B.A., Howard Payne University, 1974
M.Div., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1977
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1984

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

	God in Public: Four Ways American Christianity and Public Life Relate. Philadelphia: Westminster/John Knox Press, forthcoming in Fall, 2006.
	Makers of Christian Theology in America. Edited with James O. Duke. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997. Pp. 568.
	Joined in Discipleship: The Shaping of Contemporary Disciples Identity. St. Louis: Chalice Press, Revised and Expanded Edition, 1997. Pp. xi. + 286.
	Comprehensive Bibliography

CHHI 70970/90970 History of Brite Divinity School, 1961 to Present

Dr. Toulouse is currently working on a book-length manuscript: tentatively titled: A Search for Wholeness: Christian Faith and American Public Life Since the Mid-1950s. He is doing research in twentieth century Disciples history in the context of American culture and religion. He is also doing research dealing with Briggs v. Elliott (S.C., 1952), a school integration case filed in Summerton, South Carolina in 1952.

E. Brooks Holifield, Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003)

David L. Holmes, The Faith of the Founding Fathers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether, Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006).