David F. Holland
Education
- BA, Brigham Young University
- MA, PhD, Stanford University
Profile
David Holland serves as the Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School. His research focuses on the intersecting theological commitments and cultural changes that shaped American life from the early seventeenth century to the late nineteenth. His first book, Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. He has since published a brief theological introduction to the Book of Mormon and is an editor on the Oxford Handbook on Seventh-day Adventism, which is now in press.
His research has also appeared in the New England Quarterly, Law and History Review, and in a variety of other scholarly collections, including a recent essay in Secularization and Religious Innovation in the Atlantic World by Oxford University Press. Holland is currently at work on a co-authored volume, Ideas and Ideals in the American Past, commissioned by Oxford and a comparative biography, A Particular Universe: Ellen Gould White, Mary Baker Eddy and the Nineteenth Century United States, to be published by Yale University Press.
Courses
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Selected publications
- Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America (Oxford University Press, 2011)
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