Directors & Research/Teaching Fellows
In 2022 the research and tutoring programs at the Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies have begun. Ashley Null concentrates on the English Reformation and Andreas Stegmann focuses on the German Reformation.
A number of renowned scholars come to Wittenberg to present their research on the Reformation. The "Research Fellows" stay for several weeks and concentrate on their own research projects; the "Teaching Fellows" participate for a shorter time and focus on presenting their research to the participants of the courses.
2023/24 Teaching and Research Fellows
Torrance Kirby is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Centre for Research on Religion at McGill University, Montreal. He received a DPhil degree in Modern History from Oxford University in 1988. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a life member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and McCord Fellow of the Princeton Centre of Theological Inquiry. Recent books include Persuasion and Conversion: Religion, Politics and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England (2013), The Zurich Connection and Tudor Political Theology (2007), and Richard Hooker, Reformer and Platonist (2005). He is also the editor of A Companion to Richard Hooker (2008), and co-editor of Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion, 1520-1640 (2014). His most recent book is an edition of selected Sermons at Paul’s Cross, 1521-1642 (Oxford, 2017). Kirby recently received a Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support an inquiry into ‘The Reception of German Mysticism in Early Modern England.’
As part of the Wittenberg Summer Course 2024, he will be a Research Fellow and will be with the Summer Course for the entire four weeks, continuing his research and discussing it with the Student Fellows.
Jennifer Powell McNutt is Franklin S. Dyrness Associate Professor in Biblical and Theological Studies at Wheaton College.
As part of the Wittenberg Summer Course 2024, she will be a Teaching Fellow and discuss with the Student Fellows the significance of the Bible for the Wittenberg Reformation and the influence of the Wittenberg reading of the Bible on the English Reformation.
During the 2024 Wittenberg Summer Course, he and Prof. Thomas Kaufmann will introduce the Student Fellows to 16th-century rebellions and uprisings in both Germany and Britain and discuss the complex relationship between religion and violence in the wake of the Reformation.
As part of the 2022, 2023 and 2024 Wittenberg Summer Courses, she presents a couple of her favourite research topics: sixteenth-century sacramental theology, Reformation and music, as well as Luther and the Jews.
As part of the Wittenberg Summer Courses 2022, 2023 and 2024, Thomas Kaufmann will discuss his research on the Reformation and print and on the Peasant’s War.
With the Student Fellows, Prof. Ohst will explore the relationship between King Henry VIII and Martin Luther in the 1520s.
Robert Kolb is professor emeritus of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (Missouri). His research focuses on Martin Luther’s theology and the history of the Reformation and post-Reformation period.
As part of the Wittenberg Summer Courses 2022, 2023 and 2024 he will discuss with the Student Fellows the development and long-term impact of Luther’s theology.
As part of the Wittenberg Summer Course 2024, Paul Avis presents his views on Richard Hookers contribution to the making of Anglican theology and on the proclamation of the Gospel according to the Reformation tradition.
As part of the Wittenberg Summer Courses 2022-24, Matthias Deuschle presents his research on the Reformation in Southwest Germany.
2022/23 Teaching and Research Fellows
His research interests include Martin Luther’s reception of patristic and medieval sources, the reception of Luther among his students and the laity, and the roles of preaching, music, and the visual arts in the Reformation. He is the author of Singing the Gospel: Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation (Harvard 2005). His current project is a study of early modern wedding preaching.
In June 2023 he is a Research Fellow at the Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies. He participates in the 2023 Wittenberg Summer Course on the German Reformation and works in the libraries and archives on his research projects.
Prof. Jonathan Linebaugh is teaches at Beeson Divinity School. He holds the ‘Anglican Chair of Divinity’ and is Director of the ‘Institute of Anglican Studies’.
As part of the Wittenberg Summer Courses 2022 and 2023, he will discuss his research on Luther intepretation of Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians.
Prof. Jennifer Wasmuth is professor for Ecumenical Theology and Eastern Orthodoxy at Göttingen University.
As part of the Wittenberg Summer Course 2023 she will be Teaching Fellow and discuss with the participants the patristic background of the German Reformation.
For the 2023 Summer Special Course on Reformation Paleography, he will teach for two days, introducing participants to sixteenth-century English manuscript culture.
Henning Reinhardt is pastor for four villages near Kassel and head of studies for his deanery. His research interests are Luther’s sacramental theology and Reformation attempts of dialogue and understanding. In 2018, his book on the ‘Wittenberg Concord’ of 1536 was awarded the ‘Martin Luther Prize’ (Luthergesellschaft e.V.).
In the 2023 Wittenberg Summer Course he will present his research about the Wittenberg Concord and share his experiences in working with archival material.
See above:
- Matthias Deuschle
- Thomas Kaufmann
- Robert Kolb
- Dorothea Wendebourg
2021/22 Teaching and Research Fellows
Steven Griffin (PhD, Historical Theology, McGill University) teaches theology and church history at Ryle Seminary in Ottawa, Canada, and in the Spanish Program of Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Given his particular interest in the theology of Spanish Protestant reformers such as Casiodoro de Reina (c. 1520-1594) and Antonio del Corro (1527-1591), he uses the opportunity as a 2022 Research Fellow at the Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies to look further into the special impact of German and Swiss reformers on the confessional theology of their Spanish counterparts.
See above:
- Matthias Deuschle
- Thomas Kaufmann
- Robert Kolb
- Jonathan Linebaugh
- Dorothea Wendebourg
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