Walter Sundberg
Professor of Church History  

Email: wsundber@luthersem.edu Personal Website: www.luthersem.edu/wsundber/ Office: (651) 641-3270    Office: BH 126A

See personal website for course materials.
	See academic catalog for general course descriptions.
HC 1315	EARLY/MEDIEVAL CHURCH HISTORY	Summer Session 2009-2010
HC 1310 50	CHRISTIAN HISTORY NT TO PRES-ONLINE	Spring Semester 2009-2010
HC 1320 01	REFORM OF THE CHURCH	Spring Semester 2009-2010
HC 6335 F6	THE DEMONIC IN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT	Spring Semester 2009-2010
HC 6377 S6	AMERICAN THEOLOGY IN THE 20TH CENT	Spring Semester 2009-2010
HC 3310	MOD CHUR IN EUR & AMER (1789-PRES)	January Term 2009-2010
HC 1310 50	CHRISTIAN HISTORY NT TO PRES-ONLINE	Fall Semester 2009-2010
HC 1320	REFORM OF THE CHURCH	Fall Semester 2009-2010
HC 3310	MOD CHUR IN EUR & AMER (1789-PRES)	Fall Semester 2009-2010
HC 1315	EARLY/MEDIEVAL CHURCH HISTORY	Summer Session 2008-2009

Walter Sundberg is available to speak at your congregation's event or adult forum on the following topics. For other faculty and staff resources, visit our Online Resource Guide

• Authority of Scripture
• Church/State Relationships -- Politics
• Creeds and Confessions: Religion in America
• Ecumenism
• Ethics Questions Facing the Church
• Evil and the Demonic
• Luther on the Christian Life
• Lutheran Identity
• Reformation
• Stewardship

View a detailed curriculum vitae for Walter Sundberg here. This includes education, professional positions, activities, memberships and publications.

Ph.D.	Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, NJ	1981
Ordained	ELCA	1981
M.Div.	Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, NJ	1973
B.A.	St. Olaf College Northfield, MN	1969

Walter Sundberg began his work at Luther Seminary in 1978-81 as an instructor in systematic theology. He returned as assistant professor of church history in 1984, was named associate professor in 1986 and was named professor in 1994. He was acting chair of the history department in 1987-88 and [more...]

"You can’t ask people of the past to do things outside their realm. You have to allow them to be where they were."

Why is the study of church history so important? Walter Sundberg answers by quoting the German scholar Gerhard Ebeling, “Church history is the exposition of Holy [more...]

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