Robert Kolb (theologian)

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Robert Allan Kolb (born June 17, 1941 in Fort Dodge , Iowa ) is an American Lutheran theologian . He is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary , St. Louis , Missouri .

Life

Robert A. Kolb grew up in Fort Dodge, Iowa and attended Concordia College in St. Paul , Minnesota from 1959 to 1961 , Concordia Senior College in Fort Wayne , Indiana from 1961 to 1963 , and Concordia Seminary in 1963 to 1968 St. Louis, Missouri, which he graduated with the M.Div. completed. After receiving his PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1973, he was director of the Center for Reformation Research in St. Louis from 1973 to 1977. Concordia College in St. Paul appointed him lecturer in the fields of religion and history in 1977; 1989/1990 he acted as acting president. In 1993 the Concordia Seminary in St. Louis appointed him Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Institute for Mission Studies. From 1994 to 2010 he taught abroad for three months of the year, mainly in Europe, including in Estonia, at the Lutheran Theological College in Oberursel in Germany, in Cambridge in England and in India.

Kolb's most important contributions include an edition of the Konkordienbuch as well as a book introducing Lutheran theology.

In 2013 Kolb was awarded the Hermann Sasse Prize .

Kolb each awarded an honorary doctorate to the following universities: Valparaiso University (2000), Concordia University Saint Paul (2005), Concordia University Irvine (2008) and Comenius University Bratislava (2017).

Publications

  • Luther's Wittenberg World. The Reformer's Family, Friends, Followers, and Foes (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018), ISBN 978-1-451-49007-7
  • The concord formula. An introduction to their history and theology (Oberurseler Hefte supplementary volume 8; Göttingen: Edition Ruprecht, 2011), ISBN 978-3-7675-7145-7
  • Hermeneutica Sacra. Studies of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Bengt Hägglund on his 90th birthday, editor, with Torbjörn Johansson and Johann Anselm Steiger (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010)
  • Martin Luther, Confessor of the Faith (Christian Theology in Context series; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
  • Lutheran Ecclesiastical Culture, 1550-1675 , editor, (Leiden: Brill, 2008)
  • with Charles P. Arand: The Genius of Luther's Theology. A Wittenberg Way of Thinking for the Contemporary Church (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008)
  • A Booklet of Comfort for the Sick, and On the Christian Knight By Johann Spangenberg (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2007)
  • Luther's Way of Thinking. Introductory Essays (Trivandrum: Luther Academy India, 2006)
  • Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method From Martin Lutherto the Formula of Concord (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005)
  • Sources and Contexts of the Book of Concord , co-edited with James A. Nestingen (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001)
  • The Book of Concord, the Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church edited with Timothy J. Wengert (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000)
  • Martin Luther as Prophet, Teacher, and Hero. Images of the Reformer, 1520-1620 (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999)
  • Luther's Heirs Define His Legacy, Studies on Lutheran Confessionalization (Aldershot, Hampshire: Variorum, 1996)
  • The Christian Faith, a Lutheran Exposition (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1993; Russian translation, 2000)
  • Teaching God's Children His Teaching, a Guide to the Study of Luther's Catechism (Hutchinson, MN: Crown Publishing, 1992; India edition, 2005; Latvian translation, 2009)
  • Confessing the Faith, Reformers Define the Church, 1530-1580 (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1991)
  • For All the Saints, Changing Perceptions of Martyrdom and Sainthood in the Lutheran Reformation (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1987)
  • Speaking the Gospel Today, A Theology for Evangelism (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1984; second edition, 1995; Latvian translation, 2001, Portuguese translation, 2009)
  • Nikolaus von Amsdorf (1483-1565), Popular Polemics in the Preservation of Luther's Legacy (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica XXIV; Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1978)
  • Andreae and the Formula of Concord, Six Sermons on the Way to Lutheran Unity (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1977)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert A. Kolb (Emeritus) , Concordia Seminary website, accessed July 26, 2015.
  2. ↑ Hermann Sasse Prize goes to Robert Kolb ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK), accessed on July 26, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.selk.de
personal data
SURNAME Kolb, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolb, Robert A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Lutheran theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Dodge , Iowa