Courses

IC2610	Worship	Spring 2012
ST4460	Worship in the Lutheran Confession	Spring 2012

Speaking & Travel

2012

Teaching, intensive course, “Sacramental Presence in a Changing World” at the University of Uppsala and the Stiftelsen Fjellstedtska Skolan, (January)

Lecture University of Uppsala, Faculty of Theology “Is Church as Sacrament Consonant with Lutheran Ecclesiology in the USA?” (January)

Keynote speaker on “Ubi Caritas: Taizé Music and the Prayer of a Community” Sacred Music Conference at Luther Seminary: Maurice Durufle – A Liturgical Musician (March)

2011

Paper at the North American Academy of Liturgy Conference, San Francisco, “Disseminated Identities: Judith Butler and Baptismal Identity” (January)

Workshop leader Mid-Winter Convocation “How Scripture Shapes Worship and Worship Shapes Scripture” Luther Seminary (February)

Presentation on “Rethinking Communal Prayer,” Lilly Fellowship Program Conference, (February)

Keynote speaker, Institute of Liturgical Studies Conference, “The Psalms in Communal Prayer,” Valparaiso University (May)

Paper at the bi-annual Societas Liturgica Conference, “Baptismal Discipline: Theology in the Streets,” Reims, France (August)

Keynote Speak “What is Worship” at the LaCrosse Area Synod Study Days (October)

Luther Colloquy “Communal Prayer in Leipzig: Clandestine and in the Street!” Luther Theological Seminary at Gettysburg (October)

2010

Consultant on the Lilly-funded study group “Christian Ministry, Theological Education, and Practical Theology,” Indianapolis, IN (January)

Retreat Leader and co-teacher for the event “Diaconal Ministry: Discernment, History and Formation” in Luther Seminary, St. Paul MN (January)

Workshop on Communal Prayer and Leading Sunday Worship, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis MN (February)

Plenary Speaker, Liturgy and Ethics, sponsored by the Stead Center for Ethics and Values at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (April)

Keynote Speaker, Yale Liturgical Symposium, “Liturgy Disrupts Society: Retrieving Communal Prayer,” Yale Divinity School (October)

Workshop leader, Missional Church Consultation, Luther Seminary (November)

Numerous, local parish adult forums (Gustavus Adolfus Lutheran Church, St. Paul; Zion Lutheran Church, Anoka; Christ Church, Lake Elmo; Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, Roseville; Westminster Presbyterian, Minneapolis; St. Matthew’s Episcopal, St.Paul)

Selected Publications

Books

Trauma Recalled
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.” i>Liturgy (June 2007)

Education//Curriculum Vitae:

Ph.D./font>	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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Last updated: July 21, 2008.