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The Donald S. Metz
Lecture in American
Christian History
Eastern Nazarene College
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The
Eastern Nazarene College History Department is proud to announce the
creation of the Donald S. Metz Lecture in American Christian
History. The annual lecture—sponsored with the generous support
of Dr. Metz's students, friends, colleagues, and relatives—will
feature a prominent church historian who will deliver a free public
lecture on the ENC campus. The talk will be widely publicized.
The lecture is intended to honor the
life and legacy of Dr. Metz, a devoted churchman, teacher, scholar, and
ENC alum. The innuagaral Metz Lecture in American Christian
History is slated for fall 2010. Details will be posted here as plans
develop.
The Inaugural 2010 Donald S. Metz Lecture in
American Christian History
The ENC History Department is pleased to announce that Thomas S. Kidd
(associate professor of history and co-director of the Program on
Historical Studies of Religion, Institute for Studies of Religion,
Baylor University) will deliver the first Donald S. Metz Lecture in
American Christian History. The lecture will be held on the ENC
campus on Friday, October 15, 2010, at 7:00pm. The title of
professor Kidd's talk is "God of Liberty: A Religious History of the
American Revolution." 
Kidd is a premier scholar and the author of a variety of books on
religion in colonial America. His book, The Great Awakening: The Roots of
Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America, was published
by Yale in 2007. University of Notre Dame historian Mark Noll described
the book as “Well researched, clearly written and authoritatively
argued. There is no book of comparable breadth, either chronologically
or geographically.” Kidd also published The Great Awakening: A Brief History with
Documents, with Bedford Books in 2007. His American Christians and Islam: Evangelical
Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism
was published by Princeton University Press in 2008. Walter Russell
Mead thus praised American
Christians and Islam in Foreign Affairs: “This concise
and well-organized study offers readers an excellent summary of
American popular attitudes toward Islam from the eighteenth century
onward.”
Kidd is currently writing God of
Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution (for
Basic Books), on which his ENC Metz Lecture is based, and Patrick Henry: A Biography (for
Basic Books).
Kidd has also published articles in The
William and Mary Quarterly, The
New England Quarterly, Church
History, and Religion and
American Culture. He was selected for the 2004-05 Young Scholars
in American Religion program, and won a 2004 National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Stipend.
Donald S. Metz,
1916-2008
Donald Shink Metz, pastor,
distinguished scholar, author, master
teacher and administrator, went to be with the Lord on  September 16,
2008. He was born on March 17, 1916, in Scothaven, Pennsylvania to Leon
and Ida Metz. In 1939, he married his wife of 68 years, Eva Irene, in
Washington D.C.
Upon completing his college education at Eastern Nazarene College, in
Boston, MA, Don and Eva, accepted God's call on their lives and spent
12 years serving as pastors of Nazarene churches in New York,
Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
Don's passion for education led him to graduate school at the
University of Oklahoma, where he received his doctorate in 1961.
He taught at Bethany
Nazarene College (now Southern Nazarene University). He was a professor
and served as Chairman of the Department of Religion. In 1967, the
Metz's moved to Olathe, Kansas, where Don helped found MidAmerica
Nazarene College (now University). He served as the first Academic Dean
(1967-1974, 1976-1983) and as Chairman of the Religion Department.
Professor Metz’s love and enthusiasm for learning earned him another
doctorate, a seminary degree, and a master's degree in American
history. He authored several books and articles, including I Corinthians, in the Beacon Bible Commentary, vol. 8
(Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1969), Studies in Biblical Holiness
(Beacon Hill, 1971), MidAmerica
Nazarene College: The Pioneer Years, 1966-1991 (Nazarene
Publishing House, 1991), and Some
Crucial Issues in the Church of the Nazarene (Wesleyan Heritage,
1994). In 1993 he ventured into fiction, writing Madame President about the first
female American president.
In addition to his work in the church and higher education in the U.S.,
Dr. Metz also taught overseas at the European Nazarene Bible College
and the African Nazarene Bible College.
Don faithfully served his community, church, and family throughout his
entire life. He was a model of discipleship and his depth of knowledge
of God's Word inspired many. Those who crossed his path were encouraged
by his friendship.
Send donations
for the Metz Lecture to:
The Donald S. Metz Lecture in American Christian
History Fund
History Department
Eastern Nazarene College
23 East Elm Avenue
Quincy, MA 02170
Please sign the check to Eastern Nazarene College and write
Donald S. Metz Lecture in American Christian
History Fund in the memo line.
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and Sharron Metz
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