American Baptist Seminary of the West
Emeritus Professor of American Church History
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1967

Ph.D.. Yale University 1968
M.A. Yale University 1965
M.Div. Colgate Rochester Divinity School, 1964
B.A. Linfield College, 1961

Phone: 510/526-1571
E-mail: ejernst@earthlink.net

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Christianity in U.S. History
• Religious History of the North American Pacific Region
• American Social Christianity
• American Religious Historiography
• Religion in the American West

Selected Publications

• Moment of Truth for Protestant America: Interchurch Campaigns Following World War I. American Academy of Religion and Scholars Press, University of Montana, 1974.
• "American Religious History from a Pacific Coast Perspective." In Religion and Society in the American West: Historical Essays, eds. Carl Guarneri and David Alvarez. University Press of America, Inc., 1987.
• Without Help or Hindrance: Religious Identity in American Culture. The Westminster Press, 1977. Second Edition, University Press of America, Inc., 1987.
• "The Baptists." In Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience, eds. Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams. Charles Scribners' Sons, 1988.
• "The Emergence of California in American Religious Historiography," Religion and American Culture 11 (Winter 2001).
• Pilgrim Progression: The Protestant Experience in California, with Douglas Firth Anderson. Volume II of The Religious Contours of California: Windows to the World's Religions, eds. Phillip Hammond and Ninian Smart. Fithian Press, 1993.