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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

 

 

 

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