Current Faculty Publications

Interested in some meaty, thought-provoking theological reading? We'd like to share an impressive list of books authored or edited byLuther Seminary faculty. Most of these can be ordered directly from the Luther Seminary bookstore!

Charles Amjad-Ali, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Justice and Christian Community
  • senior editor, Dictionary of South Asian Christianity*
Richard Bliese, President, and associate professor of mission
  • chapter author, Gift of Grace
  • co-author, Living Out Our Callings in the Workplace
  • co-editor, The Evangelizing Church: A Lutheran Contribution
  • chapter author, A Story Worth Sharing: Engaging Evangelism
Gerhard O. Forde, professor emeritus of systematic theology
  • author, A More Radical Gospel: Essays on Eschatology
  • author, The Captivation of the Will: Luther vs. Erasmus on Freedom and Bondage
Wendell W. Frerichs, professor emeritus of Old Testament
  • author, Real Prayers
Terence Fretheim, professor of Old Testament
  • author, God and World in Old Testament
Mary Hess, assistant professor of educational leadership
  • co-author, Ministry of Children�s Education
  • author, Engaging Technology in Theological Education
  • co-editor, Belief in Media: Cultural Perspectives on Media and Christianity
  • chapter author (�The Bible and Popular Culture: Engaging Sacred Text in a World of Others�), New Paradigms for Bible Study: The Bible in the Third Millenium
Marc Kolden, professor of systematic theology
  • co-editor, By Faith Alone: Essays on Justification in Honor of Gerhard O. Forde

Andrew Root, Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth and Family Ministry

  • author, The Promise of Despair
Steven Paulson, associate professor of systematic theology
  • author, Luther for Armchair Theologians
Daniel Simundson, professor emeritus of Old Testament
  • author, Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Micah � Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries

Craig Van Gelder, professor of congregational mission
  • co-editor, The Evangelizing Church: A Lutheran Contribution


* Not available in the bookstore.