Concordia College

JAMES AAGESON
Professor
Religion

Specialty:
Introduction to the New Testament
Pauline studies
Acts
Literary approaches to the synoptics
Christian origins
Early Jewish scriptural hermeneutics
The use of the Old Testament in the New Testament
Methodology and Biblical interpretation
The Pentateuch as literature
Jewish-Christian relations
Intertestamental literature
The historical Jesus
Contemporary issues in Palestine

Research:
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
• “In the Beginning: Critical Concepts for the Study of the Bible” (Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 2000).
Articles:
• “The Pastoral Epistles, Apostolic Authority, and the Development of the Pauline Scriptures” in The Pauline Canon, ed. Stanley E. Porter, Vol. 1 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004) pp. 5-26.
Web Articles:
• “Reading Biblical Texts: Truth, Fact, and Myth, Bible and Interpretation.” http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/aageson•biblicaltext.htm
Research in Progress:
• The Pastoral Epistles, The Reimaging of Paul, and the Formation of the Early Church.
• Religious Traditions and Pluralism in Israel and Palestine.

Interests: Political, social, and religious affairs in the Middle East

Education:
B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash.
M.Div., Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.
Th.M., Union Seminary, Richmond, Va.
Ph.D., Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Contact: aageson@cord.edu

ROY HAMMERLING
Professor
Religion

Specialty:
Early, Medieval and Reformation history, theology and religion
European Christian history
Martin Luther and the Reformation
Christian Mysticism, especially during the Middle Ages
Women Mystics of the Middle Ages, Joan of Arc
The history of prayer
Arthurian Legends
Christianity in Ireland, Germany, France, England, Italy
Christianity and religion in movies

Research:
• “Ethics of Genetically Modified Crops and Foods.”
• The History of Prayer: From the First to the Fifteenth Century
• The Lord’s Prayer in the History of the Church
• Articles and books in past and in the works on prayer, spirituality, Gregory of Nyssa, Martin Luther, The Lord of the Rings, Joan of Arc, themes in movies, historical movies and a variety of historical issues

Interests: Movies, music, theater, travel, soccer, track,
basketball and his children’s activities

Education: B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash.
M.Div., Watrburg Theological Seminar, Dubuque, Iowa
M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind.

Contact: hammerli@cord.edu

BASIT BILAL KOSHUL
Assistant Professor
Religion

Specialty:
Sociology of Religion
Islamic Studies
Philosophy of Religion

Research:
BOOKS
• “Disenchanting Disenchantment: The Postmodern Significance of Max Weber’s Legacy.” New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillian. Forthcoming, Spring 2005.
ARTICLES
• “Ghazzali, Ibn Rushd and Islam’s Sojourn into Modernity: A Comparative Analysis.” Islamic Studies. Summer, 2004
• “Affirming the Self Through Accepting the Other” in Scriptures in Dialogue. Ed. Michael Ipgrave. London, England: Church House Publishing. Feb. 2004.
• “Seeing, Knowing, Believing: Iqbal on Faith in the Modern World.” Intellectual Discourse. 10/2, 2002.
• “Hamilton Gibb on Islam in the Modern World: A Comparative Analysis of His Thought Between 1947 and 1970.” Hamdard Islamicus, 18/3, Autumn 1995.

Education:
B.A., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
M.A., Hartford Seminary, Hartford, Conn.
Ph.D., Drew University, Madison, N.J.

Contact: koshul@cord.edu

MICHELLE LELWICA
Assistant Professor
Co-director Women's Studies
Religion

Specialty:
Religion and culture
Women and religion
Multiculturalism and religion
Religion and popular culture
Religion and the body

Research:
CURRENT RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING ACTIVITY
Currently co-writing a book that is designed to be a more accessible presentation of the ideas in first book (see below). The tentative title is “The Religion of Thinness.” It will be published by Gurze Books in the spring of 2004.
Publications
• “Starving for Salvation: The Spiritual Dimensions of Eating Problems among American Girls and Women.” Oxford University Press (1999).
• “Losing Their Way to Salvation: Women, Weight-Loss, and the Salvation Myth of Culture Lite,” in Religion and Popular Culture in America, eds. Bruce Forbes and Jeffery Mahan, University of California Press (1999).
• “Fulfilling Femininity and Transcending the Flesh: Traditional Religious Beliefs and Gender Ideals in Popular Women’s Magazines,” in Journal of Religion and Society, an online journal published by the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Creighton University, Volume 1 (Summer 1999).
CONFERENCE PAPERS
• “Leg-lifts, Calories, and Other Spiritual Matters: Third Wave Feminism and an American Religion of the Body.” Paper presented at the annual American Academy of Religion conference in Denver, CO, November 2001.
• “Too Busy to Breathe: Negotiating the Boundaries between Life and Work.” Paper presented at the national teleconference

Interests: Aikido—a Japanese martial art

Education:
B.A., College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minn.
M.T.S., Th.D., Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass.

Contact: lelwica@cord.edu

STEWART W. HERMAN
Assistant Professor
Religion

Specialty:
Social ethics
Business ethics
Peace and justice
International development
Vietnam
China
Energy development.

Research:
PUBLICATIONS
• “International Businesses and the Challenges of Poverty in the Developing World: Instructive Contributions, Missed Opportunities,” co-editor with Frederick Bird (London: Palgrave, 2004)
• “Spiritual Goods: Faith Traditions and the Practice of Business,” editor (Bowling Green, Ohio: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2001)
• “Durable Goods: A Covenantal Ethic for Managements and Employees” (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame, 1997)
• “Energy Futures: Industry and the New Technologies,” co-author with James Cannon (Boston: Ballinger, 1977)
• Articles in the “Christian Century” (Fargo flood voluntarism, corporate citizenship, Vietnam, voluntarism); “Journal of Business Ethics” (vocation); “Journal of Religious Ethics” (Luther’s social ethics; covenants and corporations); “Word and World” (Lutheran business ethics); “Transitions Abroad” (China)

Education:
B.A., Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.
M.T.S., Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Ph. D., University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, Ill.

Contact: herman@cord.edu
(218) 299-3424 office, (701) 235-0978 home

ARLAND D. JACOBSON
Director
F/M Communiversity
Religion
CHARIS

Specialty:
Biblical studies, New Testament

Research:
Q (a source of the gospels)
Historical Jesus
The ancient city
Jesus and “family values”

Interests: Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Dead Sea scrolls

Education:
B.A., Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD;
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, Calif.;
B.D. Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN

Contact: jacobsen@cord.edu
(218) 299-3566 office; (218) 236-6275 home

ERNEST L. SIMMONS
Professor
Director, Dovre Center
For Faith and Learning
Religion

Specialty:
Christian doctrine and systematic theology
Relation of science and religion
Religion and popular culture
Legacy of Luther
Religion and science
Lutheran higher education
Theology of Luther
Relation of faith and learning
Theology and culture

Research:
PUBLICATIONS:
ARTICLES:
• “Barbour in Process: Contributions to Process Theology.” “Barbour Festschrift,” Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Fall, 2003.
• “The College-Related Church:Collaboration for the Future” Lutheran Partners, March/April, 2003
• “A Protestant Critical Mass School: Concordia College” in Mentoring for Mission: Nurturing New Faculty at Church-Related Colleges. Lilly Mentoring Projected. editor Carol Simon. Eeerdman’s, Fall, 2003.
Books:
• Co-author “Mentoring for Mission,” Eerdmans 2003
• “Lutheran Higher Education: An Introduction for Faculty,” Augsburg Fortress, 1998.
Presentations and Responses:
• “Luther’s Two Kingdoms” four lectures for the GIFTS Program of the Northwestern Minnesota Synod of the ELCA, Bemidji, MN April 20, 2002

Interests: Oil painting, jogging, guitar, symphonic music, camping

Education:
B.A., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo.
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, Calif.
M.Div., Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.

Contact: simmons@cord.edu, (218) 299-3430 office

ELNA K. SOLVANG
Assistant Professor
Religion

Specialty:
Bible - Old Testament
Women in the Bible and women in church and society

Research:
• The Bible and human identity and difference
Publication:
• “A Woman’s Place is in the House: Royal Women of Judah and Their Involvement in the House of David” (it focuses on women in the royal monarchies of the ancient Near East and the royal women in the biblical texts)
Workshops:
• on language about God, on women in the Bible, on the Book of Ruth

Education:
B.S., University of Hartford, Hartford, Conn.
M.A., Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J.

Contact: solvang@cord.edu, (218) 299-3435