David Hein
Professor of Religion and Philosophy
Tel: (301) 696-3435
E-mail: hein@hood.edu
Office: Chapel
Office Hours: By Appointment
Education
- B.A., University of Virginia
- M.A., University of Chicago
- Ph.D., University of Virginia
Biography
Dr Hein was educated at St Paul's School (Brooklandville, MD), the University of Virginia, and the University of Chicago. At his undergraduate school, UVa, he was elected to membership in the Raven Society and Omicron Delta Kappa; he was, in addition, an Echols Scholar and a Lawn Resident. During the summer following his third undergraduate year, he was an English-Speaking Union Scholar at Oxford University, where he read British literature with the legendary tutor Dorothy Bednarowska.
His PhD thesis became the first of his ten books: "Essays on Lincoln's Faith and Politics" (coauthor with Hans J. Morgenthau; 1983), recently called a "pioneering" study in the Lincoln field by historian Mark Noll.
Dr Hein's latest book (2012) is "Archbishop Fisher, 1945-1961: Church, State, and World," a volume in Ashgate's Archbishops of Canterbury Series. Other recent books include "C. S. Lewis and Friends: Faith and the Power of Imagination" (2011), "Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century" (2007), "Captured by the Crucified: The Practical Theology of Austin Farrer" (2004), and "The Episcopalians" (2004), a selection of the History Book Club.
Lately, Professor Hein has focused his research on the period of the Second World War, including its military history. Recent articles on World War II: "General George C. Marshall: Core Convictions, Ethical Leadership," Touchstone 26 (2013), and "Vulnerable: HMS Prince of Wales in 1941," Journal of Military History 77 (2013).
Dr Hein's writings also include more than 40 articles in Modern Age, the Mississippi Quarterly, Cross Currents, the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, the Christian Century, Theology, and other distinguished journals.
A well-known historian, David Hein has been interviewed by NBC News, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Associated Press, Religion News Service, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and other media outlets.
In 2000-01 and 2007-08, he served as an interim Dean of the Faculty. Twice he has received Hood's highest faculty award for scholarship and teaching.
In 2011 he was nominated and elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) in recognition of his "original" and "significant" contributions to historical scholarship.
Dr Hein has delivered a number of invited, endowed lectures, the latest of which was the Jaak Seynaeve Memorial Lecture at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 2012.