Rev. Dr. David Lumpp Named Poehler Lecture Series Speaker
Lecture series explores the connections between faith and learning
Topic: “Incarnation, Intersections and Integration: A Theologian Re-Encounters the Liberal Arts”
March 28, 2006 - 7:30 p.m.
Rev. Dr. A. David Lumpp, professor and chairperson of the department of Theology at Concordia University, St. Paul, has been selected as the honored speaker for the fifth annual Poehler Lecture Series on Christian Faith and Learning.
Lumpp received his bachelor’s degree at Concordia Senior College; and his master of divinity, master of sacred theology, and doctor of theology degrees at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. His areas of professional expertise are primarily in systematic and historical theology.
Prior to coming to Concordia College, St. Paul in 1990, he served on the faculty of Concordia College, Ann Arbor. He has also worked part-time as an editorial assistant at the Center for Reformation Research and in the editorial department of Concordia Publishing House, both in St. Louis. Lumpp was ordained to the pastoral ministry of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in 1983, at which time he was placed at and appointed to the faculty at Concordia, Ann Arbor. Within the Missouri Synod, he has served on the Commission on Worship and, more recently, on the Synod’s Commission on Theology and Church Relations (serving for the past four years on its executive committee).
He has spoken and written for both academic and church audiences. He has written chapters for two popular books of Christian instruction, and edited another; and his devotional writings have appeared in two collections. His articles and reviews have appeared in Evangelium, the Concordia Journal, the Concordia Theological Quarterly, Religious Studies Review, Lutheran Quarterly, The Lutheran Witness, Lutheran Education, Lutheran Theological Journal (of Australia), the Metro Lutheran, and Theological Studies, among others. He has presented papers at numerous meetings of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, twice at meetings of the International Congress for Luther Research, and has been a plenary presenter at Concordia Seminary’s annual theological symposium. Currently he is serving as a both as an author and contributing editor of a projected two-volume work of dogmatic theology, scheduled for release within the next two years.
The event will be held Tuesday, March 28, 2006, at 7:30 p.m., in Buenger Education Center. The event is free and open to the public.
The Poehler Lecture Series is an annual event designed to explore how faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Vocation and Ministry, The College of Education and the College of Graduate and Continuing Studies have connected their Christian faith with their academic discipline. Speakers are selected based on excellence in their academic discipline and maturity in their Christian faith.
The series is made possible by a gift from Robert and Elisabeth Trembath and is named in honor of The Rev. Dr.Willy August Poehler, Concordia’s president from 1946 -1970 and the father of Elisabeth Trembath.
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