Ph.D. summa cum laude, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, 1980, Church History, "Biblical and Liturgical Symbols in Pseudo-Dionysius"

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1 PAUL ROREM Benjamin B. Warfield Professor of (Medieval) Ecclesiastical History Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey (609) Personal Born on December 8, 1948, raised in Appleton, Minnesota. Married to Katherine Skrebutenas; daughter Anna, son Joseph. 97 Randall Road Princeton, New Jersey (609) Education Ph.D. summa cum laude, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, 1980, Church History, "Biblical and Liturgical Symbols in Pseudo-Dionysius" S.T.M., The Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA, 1975 M.Div., Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, MN, 1973 B.A., St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, 1970 Previous Employment History Associate Professor, Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, NJ Visiting Lecturer, Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, NJ Associate Professor of Early and Medieval Church History (re-appointed in 1989, with tenure) Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago 1100 E. 55th Street, Chicago, IL Pastor, Our Savior's Lutheran Church 50 Calvert Avenue East, Edison, NJ 08820

2 Paul Rorem 2 Other Teaching Experience Guest Professor, Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, 2006, 2015 Summer School Faculty, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1988 Visiting Lecturer, Church History, Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, 1985 Visiting Lecturer, History Department, Princeton University, 1984 Continuing Theological Education Coordinator, Eastern Dist. ALC, Lutheran Confessions, Princeton Theological Seminary, Teaching Fellow, Princeton Theological Seminary, Instructor in Greek, Luther Theological Seminary, Instructor in Greek, Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, 1973 Ecclesiastical Responsibilities Lutheran-Orthodox Dialogues, USA Board of Theological Education and Ministry, ALC, Consultation on Theological Education: ALC, LCA, and AELC, Acting Director of Pastoral Studies (M.Div. program), LSTC, 1988 ELCA Task Force on the Study of Theological Education, Internship Cluster Coordinator, NJ Synod, ELCA, Honors and Fellowships Dudleian Lecture, Harvard Divinity School, April 17, 2008 Visitor, School of Historical Studies, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, , Lilly Faculty Fellowship (ATS) Member, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, 1990, , and Summer Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Center of Byzantine Studies, Washington, D.C., 1981 Post-doctoral Research Associate, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Fulbright Fellowship, Rome, Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst Research Stipend, Göttingen, West Germany 1978 Die Evangelische Kirche Deutschland Goethe Institut Stipend, Radolfzell, West Germany, 1975 The Sadtler Teaching Fellowship, The Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, The G.M. Bruce Prize in Biblical Studies, Luther Theological Seminary, 1973

3 Paul Rorem 3 Publications "Luther's Objection to the Eucharistic Prayer," The Cresset (Valparaiso University) 38.5 (1975): "The Place of The Mystical Theology in the Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus," Dionysius 4 (1980): "An Influence of Peter Lombard on the Biblical Hermeneutics of Thomas Aquinas," Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa 16 (1980): "Iamblichus and the Anagogical Method in Pseudo-Dionysian Liturgical Theology," Studia Patristica XVIII (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1982): "Canonical Hours," "Carnival," "Corpus Christi, Feast of," The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1983): 66-67, 99, 608. "Easter," The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Vol. 4 (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1984): Biblical and Liturgical Symbols Within the Pseudo-Dionysian Synthesis (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1984) (Studies and Texts, 71). "The Uplifting Spirituality of Pseudo-Dionysius," Christian Spirituality, Origins to the Twelfth Century (Volume 16 of World Spirituality), ed. B. McGinn, J. Meyendorff (New York: Crossroad, 1985): "Lent," The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Vol. 7 (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1986): 541. "Toward Liturgical Hermeneutics: Some Byzantine Examples," Currents in Theology and Mission 13 (1986): The Medieval Development of Liturgical Symbolism (Bramcote/Nottingham: Grove Books, 1986 (Grove Liturgical Study, 47) Foreword, translation collaboration, notes, bibliography, and indices of The Complete Works of Pseudo-Dionysius (New York: Paulist Press, 1987). (Classics of Western Spirituality). "Calvin and Bullinger on the Lord's Supper," Lutheran Quarterly 2 (1988): , (Now in book form as Alcuin/GROW Liturgical Study 12 (1989).

4 Paul Rorem 4 "Moses as the Paradigm for the Liturgical Spirituality of Pseudo-Dionysius," Studia Patristica 18 (1989): "The Biblical Allusions and Overlooked Quotations in the Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus," Studia Patristica 23 (1989): Mission and Ministry in the Early Church: Bishop, Presbyter and Deacons, but... Currents in Theology and Mission 17 (1990): Biblical Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective. Studies in Honor of Karlfried Froehlich on His Sixtieth Birthday. Co-edited with Mark S. Burrows. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991). "The Filioque Issue in Protestant-Orthodox Dialogues," The Theological Review [Near East School of Theology, Beirut] 12 (1991): "'Procession and Return' in Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors," The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 13.2 (July 1992): Pseudo-Dionysius. A Commentary on the Texts and an Introduction to their Influence (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). "John of Scythopolis on Apollinarian Christology and the Pseudo-Areopagite's True Identity," Church History 62 (1993): , with John C. Lamoreaux. "The Consensus Tigurinus (1549): Did Calvin Compromise?" Calvinus Sacrae Theologiae Professor, ed. W. Neuser, 1990 International Congress on Calvin Research (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994), pp "The End of All Offertory Processions," dialog 35 (1996): Lover and Mother: Medieval Language for God and the Soul, in Women, Gender and Christian Community ed. Jane Dempsey Douglass and James Kay (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1997), pp The Doctrinal Concerns of John of Scythopolis, the First Dionysian Scholiast, in Denys l Aréopagite et sa postérité en Orient et en Occident ed. Ysabel de Andia (Paris:Études Augustiniennes, 1997), Martin Luther s Christocentric Critique of Pseudo-Dionysian Spirituality, Lutheran Quarterly 11 (Autumn, 1997):

5 Paul Rorem 5 Editor of posthumous work by E. Theodore Bachmann, The United Lutheran Church in America (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997). John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus: Annotating the Areopagite, with John C. Lamoreaux (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998) (Oxford Early Christian Studies) Empathy and Evaluation in Medieval Church History and Pastoral Ministry: A Lutheran Reading of Pseudo-Dionysius, The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 19.2 (July 1998): Dionysius the Areopagite. In Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, ed. G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Pp Review Essay: Whole Histories of Mysticism (McGinn) and Preaching (Old), Lutheran Quarterly 14 (2000) Dionigi l Areopagita. In Patrologia V: I Padri orientali (secoli V-VIII), ed. Angelo di Berardino. Genoa: Marietti, Pp Augustine, the Medieval Theologians and the Reformation, in The Medieval Theologians, ed. G.R. Evans (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), pp Saints Cyril and Methodius, Valentine s Day, and True Love (sermon), in Preaching 1 Corinthians 13, ed. Susan K. Hedahl and Richard Carlson (St. Louis: Chalice, 2001), Augustine For and Against Spirituality, inspire (Winter, 2002): Augustine and Luther for and against Contemporary Spirituality, Currents in Theology and Mission 30 (2003): The Company of Medieval Women Theologians, Theology Today 60 (2003): Christ as Cornerstone, Worm, and Phoenix in Eriugena s Commentary on Dionysius, Dionysius 21 (2003): Eriugena s Commentary on the Dionysian Celestial Hierarchy (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2005) (Studies and Texts, 150)

6 Paul Rorem 6 Foreword to The Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite by Christian Schafer (Leiden: Brill, 2006), xiii-xvi. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, in The History of Christianity, Jonathan Hill, editor (Oxford: Lion, 2007), p Negative Theologies and the Cross, Harvard Theological Review 101: 3-4 (2008): The Early Latin Dionysius: Eriugena and Hugh of St. Victor, Modern Theology 24:4 (2008): Also published in Re-thinking Dionysius the Areopagite, ed. Sarah Coakley and Charles Stang (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), Hugh of Saint Victor (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). Dionysian Uplifting (Anagogy) in Bonaventure s Reductio, Franciscan Studies 70 (2012): Bonaventure s Ideal and Hugh of St. Victor s Comprehensive Biblical Theology, Franciscan Studies 70 (2012): The Dionysian Mystical Theology (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2015). Associate Editor, Lutheran Quarterly, Editor, Lutheran Quarterly, 1996-present Editor, Lutheran Quarterly Books (Eerdmans ; Fortress Press, 2016-present) Series Advisor, Mapping the Tradition, Fortress Press, 2014-present.