PTS People

	Elsie Anne McKee Archibald Alexander Professor of Reformation Studies and the History of Worship Department of History and Ecumenics 115 Tennent Hall Phone: 609.497.7989 Fax: 609.497.7829

Profile
Elsie Anne McKee, Archibald Alexander Professor of Reformation Studies and the History of Worship, earned her Ph.D. at Princeton Theological Seminary and a diploma in theology from Cambridge University in England. An ordained Presbyterian elder, she is a member of the session at Witherspoon Presbyterian Church in Princeton and is cochairing the Music and Worship Committee. She is also a member of the North American Liaison Board for the Protestant University of Congo, where she spent much of her youth, which supports theological and medical education in that country. She teaches courses on the theology of Calvin and prayer practices in Christian history. McKee’s diverse interests span the history of the church, exegesis, theology, and worship, especially in the Reformation; women and laity in the Reformation and Christian history; John Calvin’s sermons, commentaries, and doctrine of the church; and Katharina Schuetz Zell and lay theology.

Major Publications
Elders and the Plural Ministry: The Role of Exegetical History in Illuminating John Calvin’s Theology (Droz, 1988) Katharina Schuetz Zell: The Life and Thought of a Sixteenth-Century Reformer (Brill, 1999) John Calvin: Writings on Pastoral Piety (Paulist, 2001) Katharina Schuetz Zell, Church Mother: The Writings of a Protestant Reformer in Sixteenth-Century Germany (University of Chicago, 2006)