Research and Service
The Faculty of the Department of Religion and Theology are leaders in the church and the academy:
Serving the Church
- Dr. David Lumpp, served on the Commission on Theology and Church Relations (term expired 2008)
- Dr. Thomas Trapp, mission pastor, Emmaus Lutheran Church, St. Paul
- Dr. Mark Press, director of the Hoffmann Institute
- Dr. Richard Carter, recently taught at the Gurukul Lutheran Theological College in India
- Dr. Rhoda Schuler, parish liturgist at Jehovah Lutheran Church
- Dr. Stephen Stohlmann, coordinator of Iowa West Lay Leadership Institute
Serving the Academy
- Dr. Mark Schuler, regional representative for the Upper Midwest Region of the American Schools of Oriental Research, director of the Northeast Insula Project of the Hippos/Sussita Excavations, on sabbatical 2010-2011
Areas of Research/Publication
- Dr. David Lumpp - Theological Prolegomena
- Dr. Mark Schuler - Roman/Byzantine Archaeology of the Galilee and the Golan
- Dr. Rhoda Schuler - Liturgical Studies, Confirmation in the Lutheran Church, Christianity in America
- Dr. Stephen Stohlmann - structure of the Trinitarian section of the Athanasian Creed
- Dr. Thomas Trapp - translation of theological works from German
