{"id":81,"date":"2019-06-28T00:36:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T00:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/faculty\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2024-07-03T18:34:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:34:29","slug":"kschiffer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/faculty\/kschiffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathryn M. Schifferdecker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"degree_list\">\n<li>Th.D. (Harvard University, The Divinity School)<\/li>\n<li>M.Div. (Yale University, The Divinity School)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p>Kathryn M Schifferdecker came to Luther Seminary as an assistant professor of Old Testament in 2006. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2001, Schifferdecker was associate pastor for five years at Trinity Lutheran Church, Arkdale, Wisc., before coming to Luther.<\/p>\n<p>Schifferdecker is a frequent contributor to <a href=\"http:\/\/workingpreacher.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/workingpreacher.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1491918727575000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHmWnJcQUuFeShLgblz-g3c0Z63HQ\">workingpreacher.org<\/a>, <em>Word &amp; World<\/em>\u00a0and the author of <em>Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job<\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2008). She is currently writing a commentary on the book of Esther.<\/p>\n<h2>Featured Work<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-83 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/faculty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/06\/Schifferdecker-Out-of-the-Whirlwind-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover titled &quot;Out of the Whirlwind&quot; by Kathryn Schifferdecker, featuring a dramatic landscape painting with dark clouds, forest, and a winding river.\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/faculty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/06\/Schifferdecker-Out-of-the-Whirlwind-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/faculty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/06\/Schifferdecker-Out-of-the-Whirlwind.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harvard University Press (October, 2008)<\/p>\n<p>The book of Job is a complex, sophisticated treatment of the problem of undeserved suffering. It is also a sustained meditation on creation, on humanity\u2019s place in creation, and on God\u2019s ordering of creation. In this study, Kathryn Schifferdecker offers a close literary and theological reading of the book of Job\u2014particularly of the speeches of God at the end of the book\u2014in order to articulate its creation theology, which is particularly pertinent in our environmentally-conscious age. After all of Job\u2019s agonized questioning, God\u2019s answer does not directly address Job\u2019s questions about undeserved suffering or divine justice. Instead, the divine speeches take Job on a God\u2019s-eye tour of creation in all its beauty and complexity. In extraordinarily detailed and beautiful poetry, the divine speeches show Job that the world is radically non-anthropocentric, that there exist wild places and animals whose value has nothing to do with their usefulness to humanity, and that God delights in the freedom of God\u2019s creatures. This vision of the divine speeches enables Job to move out of despair into renewed participation in God\u2019s often-dangerous but beautiful world. This creation theology of Job, virtually unique in the Bible, has much to say to us today, as we struggle theologically and politically with the issues of environmental degradation and humanity\u2019s relationship to the natural world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Th.D. (Harvard University, The Divinity School) M.Div. (Yale University, The Divinity School) Biography Kathryn M Schifferdecker came to Luther Seminary as an assistant professor of Old Testament in 2006. 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