Dr. Thomas Albert Howard

Dr. Thomas Albert Howard is Professor of Humanities and History, Phyllis and holds the Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valpariaso University where he is affiliated with Christ College, Valparaiso University’s humanities-based honors college. He also serves as a senior fellow for the Lilly Network of Church-Related Colleges and Universities.

Prior to coming to Valparaiso, he taught at Gordon College, where he founded and directed the Jerusalem and Athens Forum honors program and led the Center for Faith and Inquiry. He is the author or editor of many books, including "The Faiths of Others: A History of Interreligious Dialogue" (Yale University Press, 2021), "The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age" (Oxford University Press, 2017), "Remembering the Reformation: An Inquiry into the Meanings of Protestantism" (Oxford University Press, 2016), and (edited with Mark A. Noll) "Protestantism after 500 Years" (Oxford University Press, 2016). His newest book is "Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History" (Yale University Press, 2025) and he is working on “Modern Christian Theology: An Intellectual History” (under contract with Princeton University Press) and a collection of travel essays.

His writings have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of the History of Ideas and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and in more general venues such as Hedgehog Review, Wall Street Journal, Modern Age, Touchstone, Inside Higher Ed, National Interest, Christian Century, First Things, and Commonweal. His work has been translated into German, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese.