DR.
ROY
HAMMERLING
Education:
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Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1997
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M.A., University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1990
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M.Div., Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, IA, 1982
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B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, 1978
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Majors: Religion, Philosophy, Classics
Professional Experience:
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Religion Department Chair, Concordia College 2004-Present
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Associate Professor of Religion, Concordia College, 1992-Present
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Instructor, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame,
IN, 1990
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Teaching Assistant, Western Civilization, University of Notre Dame, 1989-91
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Pastor, Prairie Valley Lutheran Parish, Williston, ND, 1982-87
Scholarly Projects and Select Publications:
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1997 - Dissertation: The Use and Interpretation of the Lord's Prayer from the
Time of Christ to 750
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1993-94 - "The Pater Noster in Its Patristic and Medieval Context: The Baptismal
Catechetic Interpretation of the Lord's Prayer," Proceedings of the
Patristic, Mediaeval and Renaissance Conference 18 (1993-94): 1-24.
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“Gregory of Nyssa’s
Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer: Lessons from the Classics,” in Word and World
22 (Winter 2002), 64-70.
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The Pearl of Great Price: The Lord's Prayer in the Early Church
(Forthcoming)
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A History of Prayer: From the First to the Fifteenth Century (Brill Publishers,
forthcoming 2008).
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Ongoing: Medieval Commentaries on the Lord's Prayer: Translations of Important
Texts
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Ongoing: The Ars Bene Moriendi
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Ongoing: An History of the Transmission of the Sermons of John Tauler
Papers and
Lectures
May 1992 The 27th
International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo,
Michigan
Topic: Jordan of Quedlinburg’s Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer
October 1993 Conference on
Medieval and Reformation Studies at Villanova University
Topic: The History of the Lord’s Prayer during the
Middle Ages
July 1994 Charis Summer
Event held at Concordia College Topic: The Lord’s Prayer
in the Life of the Church
July
1996 Charis Summer Event held at Concordia College
Topic: A Comparison of Medieval and Modern
Exegetical Methods of Interpreting the Bible
September 1996 Concordia College’s Symposium
Topic: Religion on the Internet:
Religious Community in
Cyberspace
May
1997 The 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Topic: Early Medieval Interpretation of the Lord’s
Prayer
November 1997 Fall Guest Lecturer for Credo at Concordia College
and in April 1998 at First Presbyterian Church, Fargo,
ND on…"Medieval Christian Mysticism: Lost in the
Abyss of God"
May
1998 The 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan (I organized this session)
Topic: The Use of the Lord’s Prayer in Early Medieval
Polemic
September 1998 Concordia College Symposium
Topic: God in Cyberspace: Religion on the Internet
April
1998 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Topic: The Greatest Martyr on Earth: The Lord’s
Prayer
November 1998
Atomic Café Guest Writer Series Speaker
A Short Story: Ode to an Exhibitionist
January and February 1999
Communiversity and Public Library Presentations
Topic: King Arthur Through the Ages
done with Dr. David Sprunger
May
2000 The 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan (Also chaired a session on
Augustine at this conference) Topic: The Lord’s Prayer
in the Reform of Martin Luther
May
2004 The 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Organized and Chaired Session: Prayer in Medieval
History
May
2006 The 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Topic “Teaching the Middle Ages through Travel:
Exploration Seminars at Concordia College”
April
2007 Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature
Moorhead, Minnesota
Topic: "The Holy Grail Cycle in Malory: A Penance
Amidst the Story of Lusty Knights"
May
2007 and Ongoing: “A Message From the East: Iqbal”
Executive Producer for the documentary film produced
by Endless Eye Productions.
August 2007 and Ongoing Project dealing with the non-for-profit
organization called PACODES which is building of a
Library in South Sudan.
Executive Producer for the documentary film produced
by Endless Eye Productions.
Teaching
Experience
Teaching Assistant,
Western Civilization at The University of Notre Dame
(UND), 1989-91
T.A. for Ancient through
Reformation, and the Modern Western
Civilization courses.
Instructor in the Freshman
Writing Seminar, UND 1990
Religion Department
Concordia College 1992-Present
Principia 101 “The Self-Examined Life”
Critical Inquiry Seminar “Religion and Fantasy: The
Life, Writing, and Theology of C.S. Lewis”
Religion 100 “Christianity
and the Religious Life”
2002 This class focused on Joan of Arc and I took
students to France to study Joan
2004 This class focused on Greek Orthodoxy and
I took students to Greece to
study
2006 This class focused on ancient Christianity,
Orthodoxy, and Islam and took
students to Istanbul Turkey
2007 This class focused upon Ancient Egyptian
Religion, Coptic Christianity, and
Islam and traveled to Egypt
Religion 223 “The Legacy of Luther”
Religion 224 “Women in Religious History”
Religion 300 “Sisters of Faith: Life in Medieval
Europe”
(May Seminar taught in Europe, I have gone
to Europe three times with this class and have
visited Italy, France, Germany, England,
Ireland, Wales, and Iceland. See below for
more details)
Religion 324 "Legacy of Luther"
Religion 325 “Studies in Religious History”
(In recent years this course has focused upon
Celtic Christianity during the Middle Ages
Religion 326 "The Christian Tradition II: Theologies
and Ethics"
Religion 327 “Eastern Orthodoxy”
With special emphasis upon Russian
Orthodoxy.
Religion 330 “Theology and The Lutheran Tradition”
Religion 402: “Religion in Film”
Religion 410 “Saint Augustine: His Life and Theology”
English 232E a Credo Course (team taught with David
Sprunger)
"Arthurian Legends"
(Also 2005 Exploration Seminar to England)
International Education Experience
May Seminars
1999 Italy, Germany,
France, England
2001 Italy, France, England
2002 Iceland, Germany,
France, Ireland, Wales, England
Exploration Seminars
2002 France: Joan of Arc
Seminar
2004 Greece: Ancient and
Modern Greek Religions
2005 England: King
Arthur’s England
2006 Turkey: Christianity
and Islam in Ancient and Modern
Turkey
2007 Egypt: Ancient
Egyptian Religion, Islam, and Christianity
Concordia College Family
Tours
2006 Summer:
Greece, Crete and the Greek Islands
Credo in Crete Semester
Abroad Program (Greece, Crete, Greek
Islands,
Turkey)
2008 Spring
Semester
Other Significant Travel
Experiences
2002 Peru and
Galapagos Islands
2007 Dubai,
Pakistan, Spain
Filmography
"A
Message From the East"
A documentary film by Endless Eye Productions
Executive Producer, Scholarly Consultant
Untitled Sudan Project
A
documentary film by Endless Eye Productions
Executive Producer, Scholarly Consultant
Music
Collaborations
"Memorial" by
Rene Clausen (2004)
Text Roy Hammerling
Live Recording Riverside Church, New York Feb. 15, 2003
Publications
“Johannes Tauler” in
Daily Readings from Spiritual
Classics,
Paul
Ofstedal, ed. (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House,
1990).
"Preaching
Helps” in Currents in Theology and Mission 14 (1987),
pp. 224f.
Book review of Roberta
Bondi’s To Love as God Loves in
Currents in Theology and Mission 15 (1988), p.460.
“The
History of the Lord’s Prayer during the Middle Ages” in
Proceedings of the Patristic Medieval Renaissance
Conference,
Villanova University (1993-1994), pp.1-24.
Book
review of Jeffrey Burton Russell’s A History of Heaven in
Church History
in Church History 68 (September
1999), pp. 674-675.
Movie
review, "'Messenger' shows too much of the dark side of Joan
of Arc," in the Fargo Forum, Nov. 19, 1999.
Newspaper Article, "With Joan, the appeal is 'something for
everyone,'" in the Fargo Forum, Nov. 19, 1999, also
included photography
Book
review of Kent Emery, Jr. and Joseph P. Wawrykow, eds.,
Christ Among the Dominicans
in Church
History 69
(June 2000), pp. 423-424.
Book
review of Garry Wills, Saint Augustine (New York: Penguin,
1999) in Dialog 39 (Summer 2000), pp. 155-156.
Book
reviews for Dialog 40 (Fall 2000)
Roberta Bondi, Lord Teach Us to Pray
Forum
Article, December 16, 2001 “A Change of Hobbit”. On J.R.R.
Tolkien.
“Gregory of Nyssa’s Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer: Lessons from the
Classics,” in Word and World 22 (Winter 2002), 64-
70.
Book
Reviews in Dialog 2003:
Dorothee Soelle, Against the Wind: Memoirs of a
Radical
Christian and
Dorothee Soelle, The Silent
Cry: Mysticism and Resistance in Dialog 2003.
Book
Reviews in Dialog 2004:
Kenneth Stevenson, Abba Father: Understanding
and Using the Lord’s Prayer and Kenneth
Stevenson, The Lord’s Prayer a Text in Tradition in
Dialog 2004.
“Teaching the Middle Ages through Travel: Exploration Seminars at
Concordia College” in Studies in Medieval and
Renaissance Teaching, forthcoming.
"The
Holy Grail Cycle in Malory: A Penance Amidst the Story of
Lusty Knights” Proceedings of the Northern Plains
Conference on Early British Literature: Publication date
forthcoming.
Forthcoming Books:
The Pearl of Great Price:
The Lord’s Prayer in the History of the Church
(Submitted)
A History
of Prayer: The First to the Fifteenth Century
Editor and
contributor with two articles entitled,
“The Lord’s
Prayer in Early Church Polemics”
“The Lord’s
Prayer in Augustine”
Forthcoming:
Brill Publishers the Netherlands.
Roy Hammerling and Edward Schmoll, Jordan of
Quedlinberg’s
Commentary
on the Lord’s Prayer
(Still to be
submitted)
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