Still the Seed of Abraham?

David A. Hollinger is Hotchkis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed his doctorate in 1970. His books include After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History and Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History. His next book, The Protestant Boomerang: Foreign Missions and American Public Life, will be published in 2017 by Princeton University Press. He is a former president of the Organization of American Historians and is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.