Employment
2005-2013 Director of International and Off-Campus Studies
1995-2015 Full Professor, Department of Religion, St. Olaf College
Retired in February 2015
1987-94 Associate Professor, St. Olaf College
1979-86 Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College
1976-77 Teaching Assistant, Yale Divinity School
1975 Teaching Assistant, Yale College
Education
1979 Ph.D (with distinction) Yale University Graduate School
Field: History of Christianity Dissertation:Johann Arndt and the Development of a Lutheran Spiritual Tradition
1977 M. Phil., M.A. Yale Graduate School
1974 M.Div. cum laude Yale Divinity School
1972-73 Graduate study at Mansfield College Oxford University (Patristics and Medieval Church History)
1970 B.A. magna cum laude (with honors) Brown University Major: Religious Studies/ Medieval History
1968 Oslo University – International Summer School
“Lutheranism in the Eighteenth Century” Chapter in Five Centuries of Lutheranism. Logia – A Journal of Lutheran Theology XXIX:4 Reformation 2020, 37-49.
Chapter on Philipp Kegel and Martin Moller in Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe. (St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History), Ed. Ronald Rittgers and Vincent Evener. Brill, 2019. 224-242
Book: A Documentary History of Lutheranism, Vol 1 & 2. Augsburg Fortress Press, 2017.
Volume One: From the Reformation to Pietism
Volume Two (co-edited with Mark Granquist): From the Enlightenment to the Present.
Articles on Braunschweig-Lüneberg, Electoral Saxony, German Pietism and William Tyndale in Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017.
Articles on Philipp Nicolai, Johann Arndt, Abraham Calov, Denmark, Iceland, Devotional Literature, Hans Tausen and Niels Hemmingsen in the Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran Tradition, Baker Books, 2017
Little Prayer Book, 1522 and A Simple Way to Pray, 1535: The Annotated Luther Study Edition, co-edited with Mary Jane Haemig. Fortress Press, 2017
New translation, introduction and annotations for the text: A Simple Way to Pray in The Essential Luther: Annotated Study Edition, Volume 4, Fortress Press. October 2016
Articles on “Lutheranism and Lutheran Theology,” “Formula of Concord” in New Dictionary of Theology: Historical and Systematic London: Inter-Varsity Press, 2016
Book Seventeenth Century Lutheran Meditations and Hymns for Classics of Western Spirituality series, Paulist Press. September 2011
‘Sensus docendi mysticus’: The Interpretation of the Bible in Johann Arndt’s Postilla in Hermeneutica Sacra – Festschrift for Bengt Hägglund ed. by Torbjorn Johansson, Robert Kolb, Johann Anselm Steiger. DeGruyter, 2010.
“Pierre Bayle” “Gabriel Biel” “Jakob Böhme” “John Capreolus” “Deism” “René Descartes” “Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz” “John Locke” “John Mill” “Isaac Newton” “ Blaise Pascal” “Johann Andreas Quenstedt” “Cardinal Richelieu” “Richard Simon” “John Spencer” “Baruch Spinoza” “Christian Wolff” in The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History 2008
Nordic and Baltic Lutheranism 1550-1680 in: Lutheran Ecclesiastical Culture 1550-1675 E. J. Brill: 2008 pp. 411-454
Tauler the Mystic’s Lutheran Admirers article in Piety and Family in Early Modern Europe: Festschrift for Steven Ozment. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2005
“Lutheranism, United States” ” Lutheranism, Scandinavia” “Lutheranism, Germany” “Eivind Berggrav” in Encyclopedia of Protestantism New York: Routledge, 2004
Book: Documents from the History of Lutheranism 1517-1750 Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002
Co-editor with John Day & Anne O’Donnell: Word, Church, and State-Tyndale Quincentenary Essays. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1998
includes Tyndale and Frith on the Eucharist as Sign and Memorial article in this book.
“Paul Speratus”, article in The Encyclopedia of the Reformation. ed. Hans Hillerbrand. Oxford University Press, 1996
The Problem of Complacency in Seventeenth Century Lutheran Spirituality in Modern Christian Spirituality : Methodological and Historical Essays. Atlanta: Scholars Press 1990. pp. 139-159
Lutheran and Reformed Spirituality 1550-1700, chapter 8 in Christian Spirituality III: Post-Reformation and Modern, ed. by Louis Dupré and Don Saliers. Volume 18 of World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co. , 1989 pp. 213-239
The Impact of Lutheranism on Popular Religion in Sixteenth Century Germany in Concordia Journal 13:4, October 1987 pp. 331-341
Book Reviews
Review of Russell C. Kleckley in collaboration with Jürgen Gröschl eds. The Letters of Johann Ernst Bergmann, Ebenezer, Georgia, 1786-1824. Religion, Community and the New Republic. Leiden: Brill, 2022, in Lutheran Quarterly 37:3 2023 362-364
Review of Martin Lohrmann. Stories from Global Lutheranism: a Historical Timeline. Fortress Press, 2021 in Lutheran Quarterly36:1 2022 78-79
Review of Wolfgang Sommer. Frömmigkeit und Weltoffenheit im deutschen Luthertum. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2013 in Lutheran Quarterly 29:3 366-368
Review of Albrecht Peters. Confession and Christian Life. Vol. 5 of Commentary on Luther’s Catechisms. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2013 in Lutheran Quarterly 29:3 357-359
Review of Dorothea Wendebourg, ed. Sister Reformations/ Schwesterreformationen: The Reformation in Germany and in England. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010 in Lutheran Quarterly 26:2 Summer 2012
Review of Michael J. Halvorson: Heinrich Heshusius and Confessional Polemics in Early Lutheran Orthodoxy: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. Church History June 2012
Review of Michael S. Whiting: Luther in English – the Influence of His Theology of Law and Gospel on Early English Evangelicals (1525-35) Princeton Theological Monograph Series 142. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2010 in Lutheran Quarterly 25:4 Winter 2011
Review of John A. Maxfield: Luther’s Lectures on Genesis and the Formation of Evangelical Identity. Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies 80. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2008, in Church History June 2011
Review of Charles Webster: Paracelsus: Medicine, Magic and Mission at the End of Time, in Church History 78:3 S 2009 685-687.
Review of Tanya Kevorkian: Baroque Piety: Religion, Society, and Music in Leipzig, 1650-1750, in Church History 77:4 December 2008 1064-1066
Review of John Schofield. Melanchthon and the English Reformation, in Lutheran Quarterly Summer 2008 228-230
Review of Robert Scribner. Religion and Culture in Germany 1400-1800, in Church History March 2004
Review of Karin Maag, ed. Melanchthon in Europe, in Lutheran Quarterly Summer 2002
Review of Luther’s Works on CD-ROM, in Lutheran Quarterly Winter 2002
Review of Brad Gregory. Salvation at Stake-Christian Martyrdom, in Early Modern Europe in Church History 71:3 September 2002
Review of Arthur Freeman. An Ecumenical Theology of the Heart: The Theology of Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf, in Lutheran Quarterly 2001
Review of Andrew Weeks. Valentin Wiegel – German Religious Dissenter, Speculative Theorist and Advocate of Tolerance, in Isis-Journal of the History of Science Society 92:1 March 2001
Review of Birgit Stolt,ed. Philipp Melanchthon und seine Rezeption in Skandinavien, in Lutheran Quarterly Spring 2001
Review of Ole Peter Grell, ed. Paracelsus: The Man and His Reputation, His Ideas and Their Transformation. Leiden: Brill, 1998 in Church History 68:4 December 1999
Review of Moshe Idel, Bernard McGinn,ed: Mystical Union in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. New York: Continuum, 1996 for Journal of Ecumenical Studies 35:2 Spring 1998.
Review of Thomas Brady, Jr.: The Politics of the Reformation in Germany – Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) of Strasbourg. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1997 for Church History 67:2 June 1998
Review of Hartmut Lehmann: Religion und Religiosität in der Neuzeit – Historische Beiträge Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996 for Church History 67:1 March 1998
Review of Christoph Joest: Spiritualität evangelischer Kommunität Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995 for Journal of Ecumenical Studies 34:4 Fall, 1997
Review of William Russell: Luther’s Theological Testament Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 1995 for Church History 66:4 December, 1997
Review of Hans-Joachim Krumwiede: Kirchengeschichte Niedersachens, Bd. 1 for Church History 66:2 June, 1997
Review of Richard Gawthrop: Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia for Church History 65:1 March, 1996
Review of Heiko Oberman: The Impact of the Reformation for Sixteenth Century Journal 26:4 Winter, 1995
Review of Bob Scribner et alia: The Reformation in National Context for Sixteenth Century Journal 26:4 Winter, 1995
Review of The Land of Carmel (Festschrift for J. Smets) for Church History 64:3 September , 1995 520-521
Review of Jahrbuch für Schlesische Kirchengeschichte 68:1989 for Church History 64:2 June 1995, 346
Review of Jill Raitt: The Colloquy of Montbeliard for Journal of Ecumenical Studies Winter/Spring, 1994 153-154
Review of Glenn Hinson, ed.: Spirituality in Ecumenical Perspective for Christian Spirituality Bulletin 2:2, Fall, 1994 24-26
Review of Andrew Fix, Susan Karant-Nunn, ed.: Germania Illustrata: Essays Presented to Gerald Strauss for Church History 63:3 September, 1991
Review of Arno Sames: Anton Wilhelm Böhme: Studien zum ökumenischen Denken und Handeln eines Halleschen Pietisten in Journal of Ecumenical Studies 28:4 Fall 1991
Review of Gary Sattler: Nobler Than The Angels, Lower Than a Worm: The Pietist View of the Individual in the Writings of Heinrich Müller and August Hermann Francke in Church History 60:4 December 1991
Review of Susan Thistlethwaite & Mary Potter Engel: Lift Every Voice – Constructing Christian Theologies From the Underside in Lutheran Quarterly 5:3 Autumn 1991, 386-388
Review of Dietrich Blaufuss, ed.: Pietismus-Forschungen: Zu Philipp Jacob Spener und zum spiritualistisch-radikalpietistischen Umfeld in Church History 60:3, September 1991 404-405.
Review of Ralph Keen, ed.: Johannes Cochlaeus-Responsio ad Johannem Bugenhagium Pomeranum in Church History 60:1 March 1991, 110-111.
Review of James Stein: Philipp Jacob Spener – Pietist Patriarch in Church History 58:1 March 1989
Review of John Stroup: The Struggle for Identity in the Clerical Estate in Journal of Modern History 59:3 September 1987
Review of Martin Chemnitz: Ministry, Word and Sacrament-An Enchiridion trans. by Luther Poellet, in Church History 52:2 June, 1983
Review of Susan Karant-Nunn: Luther’s Pastors – The Reformation in the Ernestine Countryside in Church History 50:3 September 1981