Christopher Ocker
Assistant Provost
Interim Dean
Professor of the History of Christianity
Interim Dean
Professor of the History of Christianity
ThM and PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary
MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary
- Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- The Reformation
- The History of the Interpretation of the Bible
- The History of Theology
- Religious Conflict and Pluralism
- The Entanglement of Religions
Books
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Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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Politics and Reformations: Histories and Reformations—Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr. (Coordinating editor with co-editors Michael Printy, Peter Starenko, Peter Wallace), E.J. Brill, 2007.
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Church-Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547, E.J. Brill, 2006.
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Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Articles
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“After the Peasants War: Barbara von Fuchstein Fights for Her Property.” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme, special issue on the early Reformation, edited by Robert Bast and Andrew Colin Gow 40.4(2017).
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“Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther, ed. Derek Nelson, Paul Hinlicky. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
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“Explaining Evil and Grace,” Oxford Handbook of the Reformation, ed. Ulinka Rublack. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
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"After Beryl Smalley: Thirty Years of Medieval Exegesis, 1984-2013," Journal of the Bible and Its Reception 2, 2015.
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"The Four Senses of Scripture," Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, De Gruter, 2014.
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"The Physiology of Spirit in the Reformation: Medical Consensus and Protestant Theologians," Miracle Stories Revisited, Mohr Siebeck, 2013.