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	ND Expert:  Mark Noll comments on Robertson endorsement of Giuliani


    
      
        
          ND Expert:  Mark Noll comments on Robertson endorsement of Giuliani

          
            
              
                
                Published: November 08, 2007
              

              
                Author: Michael O. Garvey
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

Televangelist Pat Robertsons recent endorsement of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for president iscurious for a number of reasons,according to Mark A. Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.

It undercuts the strong pro-life position thatfrom a traditional

Christian point of viewhas been the most admirable plank of New Right evangelical politics,Noll said.It passes by candidates like Mike Huckabee, whose positions on issues and whose general values would seem to be much closer to Robertson’s, or like Mitt Romney, whose positions and values have recently moved much closer to what Robertson has long championed.

At least as viewed from afar by an observer privy only to the newspaper,Noll concluded,it would also seem to define the Rev. Robertson as just another in the long dreary line of American powerbrokers eager to sacrifice principle for electability.

One of the nations foremost scholars of American religious and cultural history, Noll joined the Notre Dame faculty last year. A prominent participant in dialogues between evangelical and Catholic scholars, he is the author of numerous books including ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind; ‘The Rise of Evangelicalism:The Age of Edwards, Whitfield, and the Wesleys;America’s God:From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln; and, most recently,The Civil War as a Theological Crisis.

_ Contact: Mark Noll at 574 631 7574 or_  " mnoll@nd.edu ":mailto:mnoll@nd.edu  __

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