Robert Kolb

Robert A. Kolb ( born 1941 in Fort Dodge, Iowa) is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, and Director of the Institute for Mission Studies in St. Louis.

Life

Robert Kolb grew up in Fort Dodge, Iowa and attended from 1959 to 1961, the Concordia College, St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1961 to 1963, the Concordia Senior College in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and from 1963 to 1968, the Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, MO, he with the M.Div. , STM abeschloss. After receiving his doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1973, he was from 1973 to 1977 as director of the Center for Reformation Research work in St. Louis. The Concordia College, St. Paul, appointed him in 1977 to the faculty in the fields of religion and history, where he served from 1989 to 1990 as acting president. In 1993, the Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, he was named Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Institute for Mission Studies. From 1994 to 2010, he taught for three months of the year abroad, especially in Europe, including in Estonia, at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Oberursel Germany and Cambridge in England, and in India.

To Kolb's main contributions include a copy of Konkordienbuches and a book as an introduction to the Lutheran theology.

2013 Kolb was awarded the Hermann Sasse Prize.

Publications

  • Hermeneutica Sacra. Studies on the interpretation of Scripture in the 16th and 17th centuries / Studies of the interpretation of Holy Scripture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 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)
  • By 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 the Formula of Concord Lutherto Martin ( Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005)
  • Sources and Contexts of the Book of Concord, co-edited with James A. Nest Willingen ( 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, reformer 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, in 2001, Portuguese translation, 2009)
  • Nicholas of 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)
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