Education
1990
Ph.D., Historical Theology, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri.

1980
M.A., Theology, Aquinas Institute of Theology, Dubuque, Iowa.

1978
M.Div., Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa.

1973
B.A., History, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington.


Additional Study
Biblioteca Ambrosiana; Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.

Pontifical Institute 'Augustinianum,' Rome.

Center for the Study of the Humanities (Reformation), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

Bar-Ilan University and the Ecole Biblque, Jerusalem, Israel, with St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.


Courses taught at PLU

I.  History of Christianity
The Christian Tradition
Early Christianity
Early Christianity in Rome  (J-term 2004)
Medieval Christianity  (Fall 2003)
Women Reformers  (Fall 2004)
Lutheran Christianity/Lutheran Heritage
Luther  (Spring 2003)


II.  Theology
Christian Theology: Christology
Christian Theology: Theology of Food and Hunger
Theological Studies: Theology of Nature
Theological Studies: The Visual Arts in Christianity
Religion Capstone Seminar

III.  Core II International Program
Authority and Discovery  (Fall 2004)
 

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