Affiliate Professor of Church History
Background
Dr. Edith Blumhofer, affiliate professor of church history, has taught regularly at Northern for many years. She is director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, located at Wheaton College, and is also professor of history at Wheaton.
Dr. Blumhofer's undergraduate and master's degrees are from Hunter College (CUNY) and she earned her PhD in American religious history from Harvard University. Over the years, she has also taught at Southwest Missouri State University, Evangel College (Springfield, MO), Fuller Seminary, and Regent College.
Dr. Blumhofer is the author of six books, with two more under contract, including two biographies of significant women in the history of American evangelicalism: Her Heart Can See: The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby (Eerdmans, 2005) and Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody's Sister (Eerdmans, 1993). Recognized as a leading historian of Pentecostalism, she has published Restoring the Faith: The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism and American Culture (University of Illinois Press, 1993) and Pentecost in My Soul: Explorations in the Meaning of Early American Pentecostal Experience (Gospel Publishing House, 1989). She is currently writing A Short History of Pentecostalism (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Other new and forthcoming books are: Nineteenth Century Women Hymn Writers and the Trans-Atlantic Shaping of Victorian Evangelical Piety (Paulist Press, forthcoming) and People of Faith: A History of Western Christianity (Blackwell, 2006). She has edited nine other books and is the author of numerous book chapters and articles in scholarly journals. She also writes occasional columns on American religion in the Wall Street Journal.
Edith and her husband are active members of the College Church in Wheaton.
Dr. Blumhofer's Teaching Areas
Introduction to Historical Inquiry
Church History
Seminars in American Religious History
Forthcoming Publication
"People of Faith: A History of Western Christianity" (under contract with Blackwell Press, Oxford, UK)
A volume for Paulist Press Series, "Classics of Western Spirituality," focusing on the hymn texts of four Victorian-era women: Frances Ridley Havergal, Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander, Catherin Winkworth, and Fanny J. Crosby.
Recommended Reading:
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Thomas Cranmer: A Life of Margaret Miles
The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought
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