Current academic c.v.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 6:16AM Dr. Mark S. Burrows, Ph.D.
8 Central Street
Camden, ME 04843
mark.s.burrows@gmail.com / www.msburrows.com
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
The Watershed School of Camden, ME
2020 – 21 Advanced Seminar in “Ethics and Public Values”
Protestant University of Applied Sciences (Evangelische Hochschule Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe), Bochum, Germany.
2012 – 20 Professor of Historical Theology; Faculty of Social Work, Education, and Diaconics
Die Kirchliche Hochschule, Wuppertal (Germany), 2007
2007 Visiting Professor of History and Ecumenics (Spring Semester, 2007)
Andover Newton Theological School (Newton Centre, MA), 1993 – 2011
1999 Professor of the History of Christianity (1999 – 2011)
1993 Associate Professor of the History of Christianity (1993 – 99)
Wesley Theological Seminary (Washington, DC), 1987 – 1992
1990 Associate Professor of the History of Christianity and Historical Theology
1987 Assistant Professor of Church History and Historical Theology
EDUCATION
Princeton Theological Seminary
1988 Ph.D. History of Christianity, summa cum laude
1983 M.Div. Summa cum laude; awarded the Fellowship in the History of Christianity
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Germany)
1978 – 80 Graduate study in Philosophy and Theology
Lawrence University (Appleton, WI)
1978 B.A. Summa cum laude; double major, Religious Studies and German Studies
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AWARDS
2014 Elected member, “Bochumer Literaten”(http://bochumerliteraten.de)
2013 Recipient of the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize
2013 Writer in Residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute
2010 Author and director, Wabash Center research grant on poetry and imagination
2008 Elected as “Associate in the Arts” member of the St. Botolph Club, Boston
2007–8 Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology
2007–8 Theologian-in-Residence, Old South Church (Boston, MA)
2008 Elected to Governing Board, the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological
Studies (SARTS)
2003-4 President of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
2002 Vice-President of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
1997–00 Member of Governing Board, Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
1996 Elected to the American Theological Society
1995 Elected to the Society of Biblical Theologians
1993-09 Elected to the Joint Doctoral Faculty with Boston College
1992 Scholar-in-Residence, Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research
(Collegeville, MN)
1991 Younger Scholar Fellowship from the Association of Theological Schools
1990 Awarded “The Sidney E. Mead Prize” for dissertation research and publication by the
American Society of Church History
1987 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for Graduate Studies
1986 National Graduate Fellowship
1984–7 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Princeton Theological Seminary
1983 The Fellowship in History, Princeton Theological Seminary (for best Master’s thesis)
1982 The Archibald Alexander Prize in Theology
1979 Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellowship (Tübingen)
1978 Fulbright (The ITT Fellowship) for Graduate Studies (Tübingen)
1977 The Henry M. Wriston Senior Fellowship (Lawrence University
Elected member, Phi Beta Kappa and The Mortar Board
The Herman Erb Prize in German Literature
The Baker Prize in Modern Languages
Henry Merritt Wriston Senior Scholarship Award, Lawrence University
The Herman Erb Prize in German Literature
Phi Beta Kappa Junior Scholarship Award
Louis Baker Memorial Award in Modern Languages
1976 Phi Beta Kappa Award for Highly Distinguished Performance
1975 Phi Beta Kappa Award for Highly Distinguished Performance
BOOKS
Editor-in-Chief, with Josephine von Zitzewitz and Hilary Davies. Prophetic Witness and the Reimagining
of the World. Philosophy, Theology and Poetry in Dialogue. London and New York: Routledge, 2020.
Editor-in-Chief, with Jean Ward and Małgorzeta Grzegorzewska. Poetic Revelations: Word Made Flesh Made
Word. London and New York: Routledge, 2016.
Editor, with Jean Ward and Małgorzeta Grzegorzewska. Breaking the Silence. Poetic Speech and the Kenotic
Word. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2015.
Editor, with Elizabeth Dreyer. Minding the Spirit. The Study of Christian Spirituality. Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Jean Gerson and ‘De Consolatione Theologiae’ (1418). The Consolation of a Biblical and Reforming Theology for a
Disordered Age. Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, vol. 78. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck),
1991. Reprinted by Wipf and Stock Publications, 2010 (pb.).
Editor. Prophetic Memory for the Contemporary Church: Collected Writings of C. C. Goen. Barre, VT: Northlight
Studio Press, 1991.
Editor, with Paul Rorem. Biblical Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective. Studies in Honor of Karlfried Froehlich
on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. Co-Editor, with Paul Rorem. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans
Publishing Co., 1991.
POETRY & THE ARTS
Meister Eckhart’s Book of Secrets: Meditations on Letting Go and Finding True Freedom, with Jon M. Sweeney.
Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2019.
The Chance of Home. Poems. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2018. Also published as Heima hér, trans. by Pétur
Pétursson (Reykjavik, Iceland, 2019).
Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart, with Jon M. Sweeney. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing
Co., 2017.
Editor, The Paraclete Poetry Anthology. Selected and New Poems, 2005 – 2016. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press,
2016.
Editor and Translator, Freut euch und singt: Wild Goose Lieder aus der Iona Community. A new translation of
songs from the Iona Community (Scotland). Munich: Strube Verlag, 2015; revised edition, 2018.
Translator, SAID, 99 Psalms. Translated by Mark Burrows. [First published as Psalmen. Munich: Beck
Verlag, 2007.] Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2013.
Translator, Rainer Maria Rilke, Prayers of a Young Poet. Translated by Mark Burrows. [Die Gebete (1899);
first published as Das Stunden-Buch, Part I: “Das Buch vom mönchischen Leben (1905)]. Brewster,
MA: Paraclete Press, 2013. Revised paperback edition, 2016.
JOURNAL VOLUMES EDITED
Guest editor of issue focused on Christian spirituality: The American Baptist Quarterly 17/3 (March, 1997)
Guest editor, with Paul Rorem, of issue on hermeneutics: The Lutheran Quarterly n.s. 5 (1991)
Guest editor of issue comprised of essays by and tributes to C. C. Goen: The American Baptist Quarterly 10/4 (1991)
MONOGRAPH
Julian’s “All” and the Politics of Paradise. The Annual JulianFest Lecture, May, 2004, Waukesha, WI:
The Order of Julian of Norwich, 2005.
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, DICTIONARY ENTRIES
“The Long Experience of Love: Meditations on Breath and Beauty Amidst a Pandemic, in Spiritus 21
(1921): 128 – 47.
“‘Betrothed to the Earth’: Rainer Maria Rilke’s Poetics as an Invitation to Wonder,” in
Festschrift in Honor of Pétur Pétursson (Reykjavik, Iceland, forthcoming in 2020).
“Transfigurations of Love: Beauty, Desire, and the Union with God,” in Studia Theologica
Islandica 49 (2019)
“Epiphanies in the Ordinary: The Wondering of Poets in a Destitute Age,” in In Wonder, Love
and Praise. Approaches to Poetry, Theology and Philosophy, ed. by Martin Potter, Jean Ward
and Małgorzeta Grzegorzewska. Berlin, Oxford, and New York: Peter Lang, 2019:
pp. 87 – 99.
“Trump und die religiöse Rechte in den USA: heute und gestern. Und morgen?“ in Amos 51: 1
(2019): 8 – 9.
“Warum ich schreibe“ and 7 poems. 10 Jahre Bochumer Literaten. Einblicke in die Werkstatt.
Edited by Ralph Köhnen. Bochum and Freiburg i.B.: Projekt Verlag, 2018; pp. 47 – 57.
“Einführung,“ in Gotthard Fermor, Ed., Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Buch von der Armut und vom
Tode. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlag, 2018. Pp. 10 – 21.
“Two psalms.” English translations of poems by SAID. Oneing 6:1 (2018): 91 – 92.
“In Defense of Anger: The ‘Creative Extremism’ of Justice and the Prophetic Call for Change,”
in Oneing 6:1 (2018): 55 – 62.
“Einführung,” in Gotthard Fermor, Ed., Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Buch von der Pilgerschaft.
Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlag, 2016.
“A Sense of Presence,” Introduction to The Paraclete Poetry Anthology. Brewster, MA: Paraclete
Press, 2016, xi – xxvii.
“Epiphanies of Mystery: On Hearing the Music of Silence at the Boundaries of Tradition,”
Spiritus 16 (2016): 257 – 65.
“Seeing Through Words: Poetry as a Visual Art,” Arts (2016): 38 – 48.
“Henry David Thoreau – Grasping the Community of the World: A Review Essay,” The Polish
Journal of American Studies 10 (2016).
“Through the Looking Glass,” The Dublin Review of Books 83 (November, 2016).
“Dreaming Beside the River: The Mississippi as American Vernacular,” in Southern Quarterly
(2016)
“The Heart-Work of Poems in an Often Heartless Age.” The Dublin Review of Books (2016).
“Listening into the Heart’s Silences.” In Weavings 31 (2016): 26 – 30.
“‘The Poet Alone Unites the World’: The Poetics of Praise in Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Duino
Elegies,” in Literature and Theology 29 (2015): 415 – 30.
“The Torn Flesh of Love.” In Weavings 30 (2015): 31 – 36.
“Like a Word Still Ripening in the Silences”: Rainer Maria Rilke and the Transformations of Poetry. In Poetic
Revelations. Word Made Flesh Made Word. Vol. 3, The Power of the Word. Edited by Mark S. Burrows, Jean Ward, and Małgosia Grzegorzewska. London: Ashgate, 2015.
“’Prayer Is the Little Implement’: Poetic Speech and the Gestures of Prayer in Christian Traditions.”
In Poetry and Prayer. Vol. 2, The Power of the Word. Edited by Francesca Bugliani Knox and
John Took. London: Ashgate, 2015.
“‘There Is a Verge of the Mind’: Imagination and Mystical Gesture in Rilke’s Later Poems. Poetry and
the Religious Imagination. Vol. 1, The Power of the Word. Edited by Francesca Bugliani-Knox and David
Lonsdale. London: Ashgate, 2015.
“Einführung,” Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Buch vom mönchischen Leben. Edited by Gotthard Fermor.
Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2014.
“’Es muss neu gespielt werden’. Poetische Grundlagen einer zukunftsschenkenden Gemeindepädagogik,“ in Spiritualität interdisziplinär. Edited by Bernd Beuscher and Hildegard
Mogge-Grotjahn. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2014.
“A Grace of Sense,” in Spiritus 13 (2013): 235 – 38.
“Five Psalms.” Translations of poems by SAID, in Almost Island (2013).
[http://almostisland.com/monsoon_2013/poetry/psalms.php]
“Four Psalms.” Translations of poems by SAID, Seminary Ridge Review 15 (2013): 117 – 120. “The Energy of
Poetry in a Culture of Saturation,” ARTS. A Journal of the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological
Studies. 24:2 (2013). At:
[http://www.societyarts.org/images/stories/ARTS/online_issues/242/ARTS_24_2_2013_Burrows_Energy_of_Poetry.pdf]
“The Waking Heart” Weavings 27 (2013).
“Love Is a Direction,” with John H. Ohlson, Jr., in Weavings 27 (August, 2012): 11 – 17.
“Five Psalms.” Translations, with Translator’s Statement, of poems by Iranian-German poet SAID,
in Poetry 199: 6 (March, 2012): 542 – 48.
“A Passion That We Feel,” in Weavings 26 (2011): 7 – 13.
“’Not Enough Silence’ and the Real Absence of God in Evangelical Worship,” in Boston Theological Institute
Journal 10 (2011): 18 – 21.
“Foreword,” Seasons of a New Heart. Poets Corner Anthology (Adelaide, South Australia: ELC Publications,
2010), 1 – 2.
“Bernard of Clairvaux: On Loving God,” in Christian Spirituality. The Classics, edited by Arthur Holder
(London and New York: Routledge, 2010): 86 – 97.
“Wir Sind Brennendes,” in Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag Bremen, edited by Silke Lechner (Gütersloh:
Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2010): 326 – 30.
“E Pluribus Unum? Der ‘weitersprechende Gott’ in der pluralistischen Gesellschaft Nordamerikas“ in Die Sichtbarkeit
des christlichen Glaubens: Kirche und Theologie in der Öffentlichkeit, edited by Henning Wrogemann
(Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany: Neukirchner Verlag, 2010): 14 – 24.
“In a Dark Time,” Weavings 24 (2009): 36 – 43.
“Clothing, Commerce, and Character,” Wild Apples 4 (2009): 34 – 8.
“The Hardest Love We Carry,” Weavings 23 (2008): 36 – 45.
“Wilson Chapel: A New Meetinghouse for a School ‘Set on a Hill,’” in Faith and Form: The Interfaith Journal
on Religion, Art and Architecture (2008): 16 – 20.
“Reviving Election Day Sermons,” The Common (2008): 1 – 3.
“Die Laterne der Barmherzigkeit,“ die Bibelarbeit für die Synode der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland,
in Wirtschaften für das Leben: Stellungnahme zur wirtschaftlichen Globalisierung und ihren Herausforderungen für
die Kirchen. Ergebnisse derLandessynode 2008 (May, 2008): 133 – 37.
“Complexity, Failure, and Hope in Interreligious Relationships,” Old South Reporter (Winter, 2008): 1 – 4.
“Vigils and the Rest,” Weavings 22 (2007): 23 – 33.
“God is a Word Unspoken: Reading Bernard McGinn’s The Flowering of Medieval Mysticism,” The Harvard
Theological Review (January, 2007).
“Julian of Norwich” and “Jean Gerson” in Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters, edited by Donald McKim
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007).
“Allegorical Reading and Monastic Body-Building: Bernard of Clairvaux on the Song of Songs,” in Scrolls of
Love. Essays on Ruth and the Song of Songs. Edited by Peter S. Hawkins and Lesleigh Cushing.
New York, 2007.
“Eine andere Welt ist möglich: Die Berufung einer Kirche für gerechten Frieden in einer globalisierten
Welt,“ in Evangelischer Pressedienst Dokumentation 2 (2006): 27 – 34.
“‘There’s a Thread You Follow’: A Contemporary Appropriation of St. Benedict’s Rule,” On the Way. The
Teaching Church, edited by Frederick R. Trost. Minneapolis, MN, 2005.
“‘Another World Is Possible’: The Vocation of a Just Peace Church in a Globalized World,” in UCC/
UEK Newsletter (2005): 47 – 57.
“Jesus Goes to the Yard Sales,” Weavings 20 (2005): 28 – 36.
“‘Peering into the Abyss of the Future’: Empire in the Age of Globalization and the Call for a New
Ecumenism,” Theologies and Cultures 2 (2005): 26 – 55.
“Allegory” and “Poetry and Poetics,” in Dictionary of Christian Spirituality. Philip Sheldrake, editor.
London and Louisville, KY: SCM Press and Westminster/John Knox, 2005.
“’Raiding the Inarticulate’: Mysticism, Poetics, and the Unlanguageable.” Spiritus 4 (2004); reprinted in
Minding the Spirit. The Study of Christian Spirituality, edited by Mark S. Burrows and Elizabeth
Dreyer. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
“Hunters, Hounds, and Allegorical Readers: The Body of the Text and the Text of the Body in Bernard
of Clairvaux’s Sermons on the Song of Songs.” Studies in Spirituality 14 (2004).
“Dismantling The Da Vinci Code: Gospel Fantasy,” The Christian Century 121 (2004).
“Grace Shaped in Weakness,” Weavings 19 (2004).
“The Thread of Life: Marks of Community in Saint Benedict’s Rule,” CrossPoint 15: 2 (2002): 11 – 15 (part
1) and 15: 3 (2002): 40 – 5 (part 2).
“‘To Taste With the Heart’: Allegory, Poetics, and the Deep Reading of Scripture,” Interpretation (2002):
168 – 202.
“The Future of Kirchengemeinschaft: Ecclesial Partnership as Mission and Vocation for our Churches,” in
The EKU/UCC Bulletin 19/1 (2002): 12 – 15.
“Deep Calls to Deep,” in “You Gave the Weary Your Hand”: Bearing Witness to the Light, through the Shadows of
September 11, 2001 (Madison, WI: The UCC/EKU Working Group, 2001).
“At the Boundary of Imagination: Rainer Maria Rilke and the Poetics of Theological Negation,” Studies in
Spirituality (Fall, 2000), 33 – 50.
“Jean Gerson,” Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, edited by John Hayes (Nashville: Abingdon, 1999),
443 – 44.
“Andover Newton Theological School: Traditions, Transitions, Trajectories,” The American Baptist Quarterly
18 (1999): 131 – 43.
“Foundations for an Erotic Christology: Bernard of Clairvaux on Jesus as ‘Tender Lover,’” The Anglican
Theological Review 80 (1998), 477 – 93.
“Jean Gerson” Major Biblical Interpreters, edited by Donald McKim (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press,
1998).
“Jean Gerson,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Norman Kretzmann (London:
Routledge, 1998).
“‘And Yett He Sufferyth With Us’: Divine Suffering in Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Love,” Studies in
Spirituality 7 (1997): 99 – 112.
“‘There the Dance Is’: Entering the Landscape of Spirituality,” The American Baptist Quarterly (March, 1997).
“Introduction” and translation of excerpt from Martin Luther, The Sermon on the Mount, in A Critical Reader
in the Theological Interpretation of Scripture, edited by Stephen Fowl, Cambridge, England, 1996.
“Imagination, Fiction, and the Raising of the Dead: The Spider’s Web and the Historian’s Art,” Christian
Spirituality Bulletin: The Journal of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality 4 (1996): 16 – 19.
“‘Poetry Makes Nothing Happen’: The Lesson and the Arts,” Lectionary Homiletics 7 (1996): 5 – 6, 16 – 17,
24, 33.
“Words That Reach Into the Silence: Mystical Languages of Unsaying,” Christian Spirituality Bulletin: The
Journal of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality 3 (1995): 1 – 5; reprinted in Minding the Spirit.
The Study of Christian Spirituality, edited by Mark S. Burrows and Elizabeth Dreyer, Baltimore, MD:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
“The Pluralism of Grace: Homosexuality and Communion in the Church,” On the Way 12 (1995):
5 – 25.
“Naming the God Beyond Names: Wisdom from the Tradition on the Old Problem of God Language,” Modern Theology 9 (1993): 37 – 53.
“Globalization, Pluralism, and Ecumenics: The Old Question of Catholicity in a New Cultural Horizon,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 29 (1992): 346 – 67.
“In Defense of Allegory: On Entering the ‘Shadows’ of the Biblical Text,” in Occasional Papers of the Institute
for Ecumenical and Cultural Research (1992).
“‘A Unity Reflecting God’: A Dionysian Approach to Intrinsic Ecumenism and the ‘Separated Churches,’”
Mid-Stream 31 (1992): 200 – 21.
“An Aesthetic of Ecumenism for the Divided Churches,” New Theology Review 5 (1992): 88 – 93.
“C. C. Goen, Historian of the Church,” American Baptist Quarterly 10 (1991): 246 – 55.
“Jean Gerson on ‘the Traditioned Sense’ of Scripture as an Argument for an Ecclesial Hermeneutic,” in
Biblical Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective, edited by Mark S. Burrows and Paul Rorem. Grand
Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1991.
“Gerson after Constance: Via Media et Regia as a Revision of the Ockhamist Covenant,” Church History 59
(1990); awarded “The Sidney E. Mead Prize” by the American Society of Church History, 1990.
“Christianity in the Roman Forum: Tertullian and the Apologetic Use of History,” in The Christian and Judaic
Invention of History, edited by Jacob Neusner, Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1990.
“Devotio Moderna: Reforming Faith in the Fifteenth Century,” in Spiritual Traditions for the Contemporary Church.
Edited by Robin Maas, Gabriel O’Donnell, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.
“The Catholic Revision of an American Myth: The Ecclesiology of Orestes Brownson as an Apology of
American Catholicism,” The Catholic Historical Review 76 (1990): 18 – 43.
Translator, Wilhelm Neuser, “Calvin’s Understanding of the Notae Fidelium: An Overlooked Facet of The
Institutes (IV.1.8),” in Probing the Reformed Tradition: Festschrift for Edward E. Dowey, Jr., edited by
Elsie McKee, Brian Armstrong., Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1989.
“Christianity in the Roman Forum: Tertullian and the Apologetic Use of History,” Vigiliae Christianae 42
(1988): 209 – 35.
“Christus intra nos vivens: The Peculiar Shape of Bullinger’s Doctrine of Sanctification,” Die Zeitschrift für
Kirchengeschichte 98 (1987): 48 – 69.
“A Historical Reconsideration of Newman and Liberalism: Newman and Mivart on Science and the
Church,” The Scottish Journal of Theology 40 (1987): 399 – 419.
“On the Visibility of God in the Holy Man: A Reappraisal of the Role of the Apa in the Pachomian Vitae,”
Vigiliae Christianae 41 (1987): 11 – 33.
“Another Look at the Sources of De Consolatione Philosophiae: Boethius’ Echo of Augustine’s Doctrine of
Providentia,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (1986):
27 – 41.
POEMS
Poems and translations have appeared in Poetry, Southern Quarterly, The Cortland Review, Anglican Theological Review, Eremos (Australia), Weavings, Spiritus, Almost Island, Metamorphoses, Reunion: The Dallas Review, 91st Meridian, Oneing, AMOS (Germany), The Tablet, First Things, The Christian Century, Cassandra Voices, Amethyst Review, Image, Windhover, and The Seminary Ridge Review, among others. A large number of my Rilke translations were published in two volumes by Stephanie Dowrick: In the Company of Rilke (Allen and Unwin, 2007; Tarcher, 2011) and Heaven on Earth. Timeless Prayers of Wisdom and Love (Allen and Unwin, and Tarcher, 2014). Poems have also appeared in Like Leaves in the Sun: Prayers from the Iona Community (Wild Goose Publications, 2013), and in a German/Russian anthology, An der Kreuzung der Kulturen, II, in honor of the 70th anniversary of the death of Else Lasker-Schüler (2015).
SELECTED RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member of the Advisory Board, “The Power of the Word” Conferences, sponsored by Heythrop College
and the University of London, Institute of English Studies (London in 2011 and 2012; Gdansk,
Poland, in 2013; Rome, in 2015; 2017, in Oxford).
Associate Editor of Poetry for Arts: Journal of the Society for Religious and Theological Studies (2014–).
Founding member of the Advisory Board of the European Society for the Study of Christianity Spirituality
(2014 – 2020).
Chair of panels at “The Power of the Word Conference V” in Oxford, England; “The Power of the Word
Conference IV” at Sant’ Anselmo, Rome, June, 2015; “The Power of the Word Conference III” at
the University of Gdansk, Poland, September, 2013; “The Power of the Word Conference II” at
Heythrop College and the University of London, School of Advanced Studies, London, June, 2012.
Member of the Governing Board, Society for the Arts in Religion and Theological Studies,
2009 – 2013.
Poetry Editor for Spiritus. A Journal of Christian Spirituality, 2008 –.
Member of the Governing Board, Ruah Spirituality Institute, Brookline, MA, 2002 – 12; trustee,
2002 – 2008.
Consulting Editor for Theologies and Cultures, Formosa Christianity and Culture Research Centre
and Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan, 2002 –.
Member of the Editorial Board of Prism: The Theological Forum of the United Church of Christ, 1997 –
2010.
President of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, 2002 – 3; Vice President, 2001 – 2. Program
committee responsible for organizing medieval sections for the ASCH’s annual meeting in Chicago,
IL, January, 2003.
Organized and chaired medieval history session at the AHA/ASCH annual meeting in Boston, MA,
January, 2001.
Chaired session on medieval spirituality at the ASCH/ACHA meeting in Santa Fe, NM, April, 2001.
Member of the Joint Doctoral Faculty (History) of Boston College, Weston Jesuit School of Theology,
and Andover Newton Theological School, 1993 – 2009; convener, history section, 2001 – 2.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES & MEMBERSHIPS
Internationale Rilke-Gesellschaft
Meister Eckhart Society
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality (member; past President, past
member of the Governing Board)
European Center for the Study of Christian Spirituality (member, Advisory Board)
Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (member; past member of the
Governing Board)
American Literary Translators Association (ALTA; member)
American Theological Society (elected member)
Society of Biblical Theologians (elected member)
Society for the Arts and Religion in Contemporary Culture (elected fellow)
Academy of American Poets (associate member)
Bochumer Literaten (invited member)
Past member of the American Academy of Religion; American Society of Church History;
and the American Catholic Historical Association