Robert Kolb - The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luthers Theology

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

MARTIN LUTHERS THEOLOGY

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IRENE DINGEL

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Kenneth G. Appold, James Hastings Nichols Professor of Reformation History, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, USA

Matthieu Arnold, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Christianity, Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Heinrich Assel, Professor of Systematic Theology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany

Lubomr Batka, Dean of the Lutheran Theological Faculty, Docent of Systematic Theology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Nestor Luiz Joo Beck, Professor and dean emeritus, Universidade Luterana do Brasil (ULBRA), Canoas, Brazil

Theo M. M. A. C. Bell, Lecturer emeritus, Faculteit Katholieke Theologie, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Peder Sather Professor emeritus of History, University of CaliforniaBerkeley, USA

Christoph Burger, Professor of Church History emeritus, Faculty of Theology, The Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Amy Nelson Burnett, Paula and D. B. Varner Professor of History, University of Nebraska/Lincoln, Lincoln, USA

David P. Daniel, Docent emeritus of Church History, Lutheran Theological Faculty, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Theodor Dieter, Director and Research Professor, Centre of Ecumenical Studies, Strasbourg, France

Irene Dingel, Director of the Leibniz Institute of European History (Department of Western Church History), Mainz, and Professor of Church History and History of Dogma in the Evangelical Theological Faculty, Johann Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Mary Jane Haemig, Professor of Church History, Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, USA

Erik Herrmann, Associate Professor of Historical Theology, Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis, USA

Paul R. Hinlicky, Professor of Lutheran Studies, Roanoke College, Salem, USA; Professor of Systematic Theology, Institute of Lutheran Theology; Docent, Evangelical Theological Faculty, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Gordon A. Jensen, Academic Dean, William Hordern Professor of Theology, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon, Canada

Robert Kolb, Professor of Systematic Theology emeritus, Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis, USA

Volker Leppin, Professor of Church History (Medieval and Reformation), Evangelical Theological Faculty, Eberhard-Karls University of Tbingen, Tbingen, Germany

Carter Lindberg, Professor of Church History emeritus, Boston University School of Theology, Boston, USA

Pilgrim W. K. Lo, Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong, China