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    Office: Howard Miller Student Center, 3rd Floor - Room 320
    Email: cthompson@thiel.edu
    Telephone: 724-589-2106

    Office Hours
    Monday and Friday - 3-4 p.m.
    Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday - 4-5 p.m.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Chicago
• M.A., University of Chicago
• M.Div., Luther Theological Seminary
• B.A., Concordia College

Work Experience

• Assistant, Associate, and Professor of Religion, Thiel College, 1983-present
• Martin Marty Center Fellow, University of Chicago, 2010-11
• Researcher, University of Copenhagen, 1982-3
• Pastor, St. Paul American Lutheran Church, 1974-8

Selection of Publications

• Current research: "Dancing in God: The Relevance of Ritual for Conceiving the Divine Today"
  • To read a lecture on this topic, visit The Religion & Culture Web Forum
• With Joyce Cuff, God and Nature: A Scientist and a Theologian Conversing on the Divine Promise of Possibility, Continnum, 2011
• Editor, Weaving a Tapestry of Earth and Heaven: Community Building at Thiel College, 2008-2010, Wittenberg Workshop, 2011
• Following the Cultured Public's Chosen One: Why Martensen Mattered to Kierkegaard, Museum Tusulanum Press and Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, 2008
• Co-author, Science and Our Global Heritage: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Sustainability, 2005
• Co-editor, God, Evil, and Suffering: Essays in Honor of Paul Sponheim, 2000
• Expecting and Exposing God: Biblical Theology for a Late Modern Age, 1998
• With David J. Kangas, Between Hegel and Kierkegaard: Hans L. Martensen's Philosophy of Religion, Oxford, 1997