Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Professor of Historical Theology and Ethics
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1981

Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School, 1984
M.A., University of Chicago Divinity School, 1975
BA., Carleton College, 1974

Phone: 510/559-2732
E-mail: mstortz@plts.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• History of Western Social Thought: Ancient to Reformation
• Christian Practices
• Vision and the Moral Life
• Power and Passion: Insights into Weil and Arendt; Power and Leadership
• Luther's Theology and Ethics
• Spirituality and Ethics

Selected Publications

• "From Bodies to Brooms: Resistance to Routinization in the Shaker Era of Manifestation," Journal of Ritual Studies 12:1 (Summer, 1998).
• "'Where or when was your servant innocent?': Augustine on Childhood," in Marcia Bunge (ed.), The Child in Christian Thought (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2000).
• "Feminist Conversations with Daniel Elazar," The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics (forthcoming).
• "Practicing Christians," in Karen L. Bloomquist and John R. Stumme (eds.), The Promise of Lutheran Ethics (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998).
• "Ritual Power, Ritual Authority," in Michael B. Aune and Valerie DeMarinis (eds.), Religious and Social Ritual: Interdisciplinary Explorations (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996).
• Pastorpower (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993).