Courses

IC2610	Worship	Fall 2009
IC2620	Lutheran Confessional Writings with Gary Simpson	Fall 2009
ST4450	Life Together	Spring 2009

Speaking & Travel

2009

Retreat Leader and co-teacher for the event “Diaconal Ministry: Discernment, History and Formation” in Columbia, South Carolina (January)
Keynote presenter at the Global Consultation of the Lutheran World Federation on Transformation Perspectives and Practices Today in Augsburg, Germany (March)
Presenter at the bi-annual conference of Societas Liturgica in Sydney, Australia (August)
Lectures at the University of Uppsala and the Peter Fjellstedt Foundation “Re-thinking Sacramentality” (November)

Selected Publications

Books

Trauma Recalled (avail. Nov. '09)
Liturgy, Disruption, and Theology

Christian commitment and Christian theology both are tempted by complacence. Yet, Dirk Lange asserts, both are brought up short by keen awareness of the traumatic events that liturgy recalls and that theology seeks to explicate. Recalling Martin Luther’s great demurrals about a theology of glory, Lange reminds us that Christianity begins with exposure to the primal trauma—the cross—at the core of the Christian story.

Rethinking liturgical theology in this way brings worship back to its roots, opens us up to the disruption of our world by the needs of others, and even refines a theology of promise or grace in which our lives are opened to disruption by God.

Ordo: Bath, Word, Prayer, Table
by Dirk Lange (Editor), Dwight Vogel (Editor)

Essays & Articles

	“Liturgy, Violence and Trauma” in Liturgical Ministry (tbp Fall 2008)
	“The Enigma of Law and the Return of Suffering” in a special edition of Studies in the Literary Imagination 41 (tbp Spring 2008)
	“Worship at the Edges – Redefining Evangelism” in Centripetal Worship, Augsburg Fortress, 2007. Centripetal Worship examines how worship is, and should be, at the center of the assembly. Contributors look at the historical and contemporary factors that influence how and why we worship the way we do. The contributors from Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia include: Timothy J. Wengert, Mark Mummert, Dirk Lange, and Melinda Quivik along with Russell Mitman, Pennsylvania Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ.
	"Presiding – A Lutheran Perspective.” Liturgy (June 2007)

Education/Curriculum Vitae:

Ph.D.	Emory University Atlanta, GA	2005	Biographical Notes Photo (suitable for publication) Profile
Ordained	Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	2002
STM	Lutheran Theological Seminary Philadelphia, PA	2001
M.Div.	Lutheran Theological Seminary Saskatoon, Canada	2000
B.A.	University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, Manitoba	1979

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