Donald Capps
William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology
Department of Practical Theology
Phone: 609.924.6990
Fax: 609.497.7728

Donald Capps, Princeton Theological Seminary’s William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology, earned his B.D. and S.T.M. from Yale Divinity School, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He draws on his training as a psychologist of religion in both his teaching and his writing. His research interests include pastoral care, psychobiography, and the psychology of religion, art, and poetry. His courses cover pastoral counseling, poetry and the care of souls, pastoral care of the life cycle, and people with chronic psychological disorders. In 1989, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in sacred theology from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, in recognition of his publications in the psychology of religion and pastoral care, and of his leadership role in the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, which he served as editor of its professional journal from 1983 to 1988 and as president from 1990 to 1992. He is ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Professor Capps does not receive or respond to email messages. Letters may be sent to him at:

Princeton Theological Seminary
P.O. Box 821
Princeton, NJ 08542–0803

or you can contact him at the telephone or fax number listed above.

Men and Their Religion: Honor, Hope, and Humor (Trinity Press International, 2002)
A Time to Laugh: The Religion of Humor (Continuum Press, 2005)
Fragile Connections: Memoirs of Mental Illness (Chalice Press, 2005)
Young Clergy: A Biographical-Developmental Study (Haworth Press, 2005)