Classics of Reformation Spirituality (23 vols.)

Charles Taliaferro, is professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College. He is an associate of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, an Anglican monastic order. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Columbia, Princeton, New York University, and General Theological Seminary in New York City. He has written multiple books, including Naturalism, Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, and Praying with C.S. Lewis. He coedited A Companion to Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology.

Alison J. Teply earned her PhD from Cambridge University, studying the theology and philosophy of the Cambridge Platonist Peter Sterry.

Daniel Liechty studied philosophy at the University of Budapest and received a PhD from the University of Vienna, specializing in religious radicalism in the sixteenth century. He also holds a DMin degree in pastoral counseling from the Graduate Theological Foundation in Donaldson, IN. He has written books including Andreas Fischer and the Sabbatarian Anabaptist, Theology in Postliberal Perspective, and Sabbatarianism in the Sixteenth Century. He is presently an independent scholar living in Philadelphia. He is a member of the Germantown Mennonite Church.

Scott H. Hendrix earned his PhD in Reformation studies from Tübingen University in Germany. In 2007, he retired from a professorship in Reformation history at Princeton Seminary, and now lives in North Carolina.

George F. Dole holds a BA from Yale, an MA from Oxford, and a PhD from Harvard University. Now professor emeritus, Dole taught ancient languages, the Bible, and theology at the Swedenborg School of Religion in Newton, Massachusetts. His recent translations of the New Century Editions of Heaven and Hell, Divine Love and Wisdom, and Divine Providence have won critical acclaim. He has written books including A Book About Us, Freedom and Evil, and Sorting Things Out.

John N. Wall Jr. has been a member of the NC State University (Raleigh) faculty since 1973. He was awarded the Holladay Medal for Excellence in 2003. He is currently engaged in the writing of a book-length manuscript John Donne in 1623: The Maturing of a Vocation, which will trace the development of Donne’s career as a priest of the Church of England and examine his writings as a priest in the context of the practice of worship and spirituality in the Church of England. He has written articles, mostly about John Donne.

Peter C. Erb is assistant professor of English and religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. His specialization is in late medieval spirituality. After serving as pastor of the Amish Mennonite Church in Tavistock, he reentered the academic world, completing his MSI at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, and his PhD at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Schwenkfeld in His Reformation Setting and The Spiritual Diary of Christopher Wiegner.

Thomas K. Carroll is a priest of the Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnois in Ireland. Ordained in Rome in 1959, he holds doctorates from the Anglican University and from the Pontifical Liturgical Institute. Present at the Second Vatican Council, he has lectured widely throughout the United States, England, and Australia. He is at present visiting professor at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. He has written books including Preaching the Word, and Liturgical Practice in the Fathers.

Peter C. Erb is assistant professor of English and religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. His specialization is in late medieval spirituality. After serving as pastor of the Amish Mennonite Church in Tavistock, he reentered the academic world, completing his MSI at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, and his PhD at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Schwenkfeld in His Reformation Setting and The Spiritual Diary of Christopher Wiegner.

Frank Whaling is emeritus professor of the study of religion at the University of Edinburgh. He is known nationally and internationally for his work in religious studies. He has taught and researched in many countries including India, the United States, and South Africa.

Elsie Anne McKee holds a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary, where she is the Archibald Alexander Professor of Reformation Studies and the History of Worship. A Reformation historian, she is the author of John Calvin on the Diaconate and Liturgical Almsgiving and Elders and the Plural Ministry.

Howard Louthan is an assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He received hs PhD from Princeton University in 1994. His area of specialization is early modern central Europe. He has written books including Reforming a Counter-Reform Court: Johannis Crato and the Austrian Habsburgs and The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna.

Andrea Sterk received her PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1994. She taught in the history department at Calvin College and as an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in the patristic period. She is currently completing a book on the rise of monk-bishops in the Christian East. Her work on Comenius has enabled her to pursue broader interests in the history of spirituality and in Christianity in the Slavic world.

John Booty is professor emeritus of Anglican studies at the University of the South, Dewanee, Tennessee. Having received his PhD from Princeton University in 1960, he then concentrated his studies on religion and culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. He has taught at Virginia Theological Seminary, Yale Divinity School, the Episcopal Divinity School, and Sewanee. He is the author of The Study of Anglicanism and The Church in History.

Ian Ker is professor at the University of Oxford. He has taught both English literature and theology in universities in the United States and Britain. He is generally regarded as the leading authority on Newman, on whom he has written and edited more than 20 books, including John Henry Newman: A Biography, Achievement of John Henry Newman, and Mere Catholicism.

Philip D.W. Krey is the president of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. He was born in Brooklyn and was ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church in America. He is the author of Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Hebrews and The Bible in Medieval Tradition: The Letter to the Romans.

Peter D.S. Krey is copastor of Christ Lutheran Church in El Cerrito, CA. He received a PhD in Early Modern history of Christianity at Graduate Theological Union.

Douglas V. Steere was a Rhodes scholar at Oriel College, Oxford University. He received his PhD at Harvard University. He taught philosophy at Haverford College, where he is the T. Wistar Brown Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. He joined the Religious Society of Friends as a convinced member in 1932. He has been intimately connected with the life of the Quakers both in the United States and aborad for almost half a century. He was one of the founders of Pendle Hill (a Quaker center for religious and social studies). He was on the board of managers of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and has been on missions for AFSC in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. He is the author of Prayer and Worship, On Beginning from Within, Doors into Life, and Time to Spare.

Eric Lund is professor of Religion at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He holds a PhD from Yale University. His primary field of research has been sixteenth- and seventeenth-century religious life in Germany. He has also done work on the English Reformation, on Scandinavian Lutheranism, and on historical interactions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He is the editor of Documents from the History of Lutheranism 1517-1750 and coeditor of Word, Church, and State: Tyndale Quincentenary Essays. He has published extensively on popular piety and practical religious literature in Germany from the period of the Protestant Reformation to the rise of the Pietist movement.

David Crowner holds a PhD from Rutgers University. He retired from Gettysburg College as professor of German language and literature. He is the author of German for Mastery and coauthor of Impulse. He has taught and traveled extensively in Germany, and helped build an international program at Gettysburg College as faculty coordinator of service learning.

Gerald Christianson holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. He is Central Pennsylvania Synod Professor of Church History at Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary. He is the author of Cesarini, the Conciliar Cardinal, and coeditor of several books on Nicholas of Cusa.

Peter C. Erb is assistant professor of English and religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. His specialization is in late medieval spirituality. After serving as pastor of the Amish Mennonite Church in Tavistock, he reentered the academic world, completing his MSI at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, and his PhD at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Schwenkfeld in His Reformation Setting and The Spiritual Diary of Christopher Wiegner.

Robley E. Whitson was Chairman of the Fordham University Theology Department. After appointment as visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary and advisory board member for the Princeton world religions projects, he was professor of theology and anthropology at the Hartford Seminary Foundation. He is now president of the United Institute, an ecumenical body with special concern for the renewal of the Shaker tradition in the context of inter-Christian unity. He is the author of Mysticism and Ecumenism, Shaker Theologlical Sources, The Coming Convergence of World Religions, and The Center Scriptures: The Core Christian Experience.

Bengt Hoffman (1913–1997) received his theological education in Sweden, where he served as pastor and rector in Church of Sweden parishes. He earned his PhD at Yale University and served on the World Council of Churches staff in Geneva, Switzerland, and as director of Lutheran World Service. After World War II, he went to China as a missionary. In 1967 he became professor of ethics and ecumenics at Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary.

Charles Andrew Weeks is professor of German literature at Illinois State University, Normal. He studied in Hamburg and Berlin. He received an MA in German literature and the PhD in comparative literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana. As a student of German intellectual history, he turned his attention to a number of German authors who are often neglected because of their marginal status between medieval and postmedieval literature among literature, philosophy, and religion, and between Catholic and Protestant confessions. As a Fulbright scholar, he taught the history of German mysticism at the University of Marburg and the German spiritualists of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century at the University of Szeged, Hungary.

Paul Stanwood is professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. After completing his PhD at the University of Michigan, he did advanced studies at Oxford University and Cambridge University. He has been a recipient of two Canada Council Leave Fellowships. He is a member of the High Table at Peterhouse, Cambridge University, where he is a permanent member of the College. He is the author of John Cosin, A Collection of Private Devotions and Henry More, Democritus Platonissans. He is clergy warden of St. James’ Anglican Church, Vancouver.

J. Patrick Hornbeck II is associate professor of theology at Fordham University in New York. His studies focus on the interface between the shifting categories of “heresy” and “orthodoxy” in medieval and early modern Christianity, particularly regarding the Lollards or Wycliffites. He earned his PhD in theology/ecclesiastical history from Oxford University.

Stephen E. Lahey is assistant professor of classics and religious studies at the University of Nebraska. He has published extensively in the field of medieval studies. He is a priest of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America. He earned his PhD in medieval studies from the University of Connecticut.

Fiona Somerset is professor of English at the University of Connecticut and has published extensively about literature and movements in medieval England, especially about Chaucer and about Lollardy. She is a coeditor of The Yearbook of Langland Studies. She earned her PhD from Cornell University.