Oswald Bayer is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the Protestant Faculty of the University of Tübingen. He was, from 1986 until 2007, editor of Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie. English translations of his works include: Theology the Lutheran Way (2007), Freedom in Response: Lutheran Ethics: Sources and Controversies (2007), Martin Luther s Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation (2008), and A Contemporary in Dissent: Johann Georg Hamann as a Radical Enlightener (2011). Dennis Bielfeldt is president and professor of theology at the Institute of Lutheran Theology. He has authored numerous articles on Luther and the Lutheran tradition, on issues within the theology and science discussion, as well as on more strictly philosophical topics. He is coauthor, with Paul Hinlicky and Mickey Maddox, of The Substance of the Faith: Luther s Doctrinal Theology for Today (Fortress Press, 2008). Bielfeldt, who is retired from being professor of philosophy and religion at South Dakota State University, lives and works in Brookings, South Dakota. Troy Dahlke teaches religion and philosophy at St. Andrew s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland. He holds degrees from Concordia University, St. Paul (BA), Yale Divinity School (MAR), and the University of Virginia (MA). He lives with his wife and two sons in Fairfax, Virginia. Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth is associate professor of philosophy at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee. She received her AB in philosophy and classics from Bowdoin College and her MA and PhD in philosophy from Boston University, where she wrote her dissertation on Augustine s understanding of the nature and vocation of philosophy. She has written several articles on the relationship between philosophy and theology in Augustine, Hildegard von Bingen, Luther, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and John Paul II. She is on the steering committee for the Martin Luther and Global Lutheranism Consultation for the American Academy of Religion. Sarah E. Fredericks, assistant professor of philosophy and religion studies at the University of North Texas, studies the relationship of religion, particularly Protestant Christianity, to environmental issues. Her work has focused on energy sustainability, the ethics embedded in international environmental policy documents, and environmental justice. Fredericks teaches a variety of philosophy and religion courses including philosophy of religion, religion and science, ethics of science, and Christianity and philosophy. IX
X CONTRIBUTORS David J. Gouwens is professor of theology at Brite Divinity School. He is author of Kierkegaard s Dialectic of the Imagination (1989) and Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker (1996). With Lee C. Barrett, he is coediting The Paul L. Holmer Papers, to be published in three volumes by Cascade Books in 2011. Included will be Holmer s previously unpublished book on Kierkegaard; a selection of Holmer s seminal essays on Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, theology and faith, and emotions and virtues; and a volume of Holmer s sermons, addresses, and prayers. Christine Helmer is professor of religious studies and adjunct professor of German at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Trinity and Martin Luther (1999) and has edited (and coedited) books as well as written numerous articles in the areas of Luther studies, Schleiermacher studies, biblical theology, philosophy of religion, and systematic theology. Her most recent publications include the edited collection The Global Luther: A Theologian for Modern Times (Fortress Press, 2009) and an essay on Friedrich Schleiermacher s theology and philosophy in The Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth-Century Theology (ed. David Fergusson, 2010). Paul R. Hinlicky, Tise Professor of Lutheran Studies at Roanoke College, teaches Christian theology and is author of Paths Not Taken: Fates of Theology from Luther through Leibniz; Luther and the Beloved Community: A Path for Christian Theology after Christendom; and Divine Complexity: The Rise of Creedal Christianity. David M. Hockenbery is emeritus dean of arts and sciences and professor of humanities, Columbus State Community College. He received his PhD from The Ohio State University, studying under Harold J. Grimm. In addition to Luther and the history of ideas, his previous research has been on the social and intellectual history of the Radical Reformation in Nuremberg. He taught previously at Baylor University and Capital University. He also teaches on the history of Islamic thought. John F. Hoffmeyer is associate professor of systematic theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. He is the author of The Advent of Freedom: The Presence of the Future in Hegel s Logic and the translator of numerous theological books from German into English. His current teaching concentrations are trinitarian theology, Christian ethics, Christology, and theological engagement with consumer society. He is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Denis R. Janz is Provost Distinguished Professor of the History of Christianity at Loyola University in New Orleans. In addition to several books on Luther, he has published numerous essays and reviews. Most recently he served as general editor for Fortress Press s acclaimed seven-volume A People s History of Christianity. A second, revised edition of his A Reformation Reader appeared in 2008.
XI Gregory Johnson is associate professor and chair of the philosophy department at Pacific Lutheran University. He works in the area of political philosophy, where he attempts to bring together insights from the European tradition (especially nineteenth-century figures, hermeneutics, and existential phenomenology) with issues pertinent to contemporary practical life (such as war, violence and peace, and the task of political ethics). Before being awarded the PhD in philosophy, he earned degrees in theology. Pauline M. Kaurin holds a PhD in philosophy from Temple University and is a specialist in military ethics, just war theory, philosophy of law, and applied ethics. She is assistant professor of philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University and teaches courses in military ethics, warfare, business ethics, and philosophy of law. Recent articles include When Less Is Not More: Expanding the Combatant/Non- Combatant Distinction and With Fear and Trembling: A Qualified Defense of Non-Lethal Weapons. Carter Lindberg is professor emeritus of church history at Boston University School of Theology. He previously taught at Susquehanna University and College of the Holy Cross. He was research professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research, Strasbourg, France (1979 1982), and St. John s Summit Visiting Professor of Church History at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (2005). Recent publications include Love: A Brief History through Western Christianity (2008), A Brief History of Christianity (2005), and a second, revised edition of The European Reformations (2010). Christian Lotz is associate professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. He is the author of From Affectivity to Subjectivity: Revisiting Edmund Husserl s Phenomenology (2007 2008) and Vom Leib zum Selbst: Kritische Analysen zu Husserl und Heidegger (2005). He has coedited four books and published articles on various topics and philosophers in European philosophy in major U.S. and German journals. His current research interests are in German philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of culture, and theories of subjectivity. Mary Elise Lowe is assistant professor of religion at Augsburg College. Her teaching and research focus on contemporary theology, particularly theological anthropology, with special attention to new views of the human person, sin, and human sexuality. Lowe brings the insights of Luther s thought into conversation with emerging theology in critical and creative ways. She has written several articles and is the author of The Human Subject and Sin: The Anthropology of Pannenberg, Ruether, and Fulkerson. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Theological Union.
XII CONTRIBUTORS Martin E. Marty is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where for thirty-five years he taught in three faculties. Author of numerous books, he is an ordained minister serving in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. While he is an historian by profession, he has written numbers of books relating to theology, philosophy, and interpretation of culture. Charles Peterson is pastor of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Columbus, Ohio. He received the MDiv degree from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in 1991 and has served parishes in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. He is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Marquette University. His dissertation, Philipp Melanchthon s Commentrius de anima of 1548, will examine the relationship between philosophy and theology in Melanchthon s thought through a presentation of Melanchthon s view of human nature. Gregory R. Peterson is professor of philosophy and religion at South Dakota State University, where he currently serves as program coordinator. His primary area of research is in religion and science and ethical theory, with special attention devoted to the biological and cognitive sciences and their implications for religious and philosophical approaches to human nature. Author of over thirty articles on religion and science in books, encyclopedias, and journals, he has published the book Minding God: Theology and Cognitive Science (Fortress Press, 2002) and is coeditor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Religion and Science. William R. Russell specializes in the history and theology of the Lutheran confessional writings, as well as the life and work of Martin Luther. He has addressed academics and nonspecialists in a wide variety of settings. His seven books, five translations, and dozens of articles have appeared in print, online, and on CD- ROM. Russell has BA and PhD degrees from the University of Iowa and the MDiv from Luther Seminary. He is presently resident scholar at the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. Lea F. Schweitz is assistant professor of systematic theology/religion and science at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and the director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science (www.zygoncenter.org). She teaches courses in theology, philosophy of religion, Lutheran confessions, and religion and science. Her research is in early modern theological anthropology and questions of faith and reason. She is working on projects that explore the connections between the Lutheran heritage and our understandings of human nature.
Gary M. Simpson is professor of systematic theology at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, where he is also director of the Center for Missional Leadership. He is author of War, Peace, and God: Rethinking the Just War Tradition; Critical Social Theory: Prophetic Reason, Civil Society, and Christian Imagination; and editor of Missional Church and Global Civil Society. He is currently writing Natural Law, Public Theology, and Global Civil Society. XIII Mary J. Streufert directs the Justice for Women program in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Chicago. As contributor and editor, she published Transformative Lutheran Theologies: Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Perspectives, in addition to articles and chapters on Christology, soteriology, power, and method. Her current research continues to unfold connections between Schleiermacher and feminist thought. She holds a PhD from Claremont Graduate University. David Vessey is assistant professor of philosophy at Grand Valley State University, specializing in nineteenth- and twentiety-century European philosophy. He received his BA from St. Olaf College and his PhD from the University of Notre Dame. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Husserl Archives in Leuven, Belgium, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Oregon, and the University of Chicago. He has published a number of articles on Hans-Georg Gadamer s hermeneutics, especially as they compare to other philosophical traditions. Markus Wriedt holds a joint appointment as professor of historical theology/ church history at Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, and Marquette University, Milwaukee. He specializes in reformation history and theology with special attention to its late medieval relationships and patristic sources. He is editor of several important volumes in Reformation studies and is author of over 250 articles in professional journals, lexica, collections, and some books. He is currently doing research for a history of Reformation educational reform and its theological roots.