Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard

Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard Professor of Humanities and History, Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics tal.howard@valpo.edu 219.464.5275 Ph.D. European History – University of Virginia
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Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is Professor of Humanities and History and holder of the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics. He also serves as a Senior Fellow for the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts. He is the author or editor of several 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), and Remembering the Reformation: An Inquiry into the Meanings of Protestantism (Oxford University Press, 2016). His writings have appeared in academic 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. He is currently working on two book projects: “Modern Christian Theology: An Intellectual History” (Princeton University Press) and “Unholy: Secularist Violence in Modern History” (Yale University Press).