Kenneth G. Appold

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Kenneth G. Appold is the James Hastings Nichols Professor of Reformation History at Princeton Theological Seminary. Appold earned his BA, MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University, and his Dr.theol.habil. from the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Prior to coming to Princeton, he served as a research professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France, and taught church history at the Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. His areas of interest include the history and legacy of the Reformation, intellectual and cultural history of the early modern period, and the global history of Christianity. He teaches courses on the European Reformation, Church-State relations, and early modern Christianity in Africa and East Asia. A member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Appold serves on the Lutheran World Federation’s ecumenical dialogue with the Orthodox churches. Author of numerous books and articles on early modern Christianity, his most recent publications include The Cambridge History of Reformation-Era Theology (co-edited with Nelson H. Minnich; Cambridge 2024), and Luther and the Peasants: Religion, Ritual and the Revolt of 1525 (forthcoming with Oxford University Press).

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• Luther and the Peasants: Religion, Ritual and the Revolt of 1525 (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
• The Cambridge History of Reformation-Era Theology, ed. by Kenneth G. Appold and Nelson H. Minnich (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
• The Reformation: A Brief History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
• Orthodoxie als Konsensbildung. Das theologische Disputationswesen an der Universitat Wittenberg zwischen 1570 und 1710 Beitrage zur historischen Theologie, vol. 127. J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck, 2004)
• Abraham Calov’s Doctrine of Vocatio in Its Systematic Context Beitrage zur historischen Theologie, vol. 103. J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck, 1998)