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    Contact Information
    
    Office: Livingston Hall 320
    Phone: 724-589-2191
    Email: dnelson@thiel.edu
    
    Office Hours:
    Monday, Wednesday - 10-11 a.m.;
    Tuesday, Thursday - 11 am.-12 p.m.





Fall 2008 Semester Schedule

Interpreting Jewish and Christian Scriptures: Monday, Wednesday, Friday - 10-11 a.m. and 1-2 p.m.
Meaning of Life, Part I: Monday - 3-4 p.m.
Introduction to Religion and Luther and His Heritage: Tuesday, Thursday - 9:30-11 a.m.

Education

Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union, 2006
M.Div., Yale University, 2002
A.B., Wabash College, 1999

Work Experience

Teaching Fellow at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (2002-05)
Pacific School of Religion (2003)
San Francisco Theological Seminary (2004-05)
University of California, Berkeley (2003)
Adjunct Faculty Member, San Francisco Theological Seminary (2006)

Publications

"Evil, Evolution, and the Armenian Genocide," in The Evolution of Evil, ed. Martinez Hewlett and Ted Peters, (Nashville: Abingdon, 2006).

"The Vulnerable and Transcendent God: The Postliberal Theology of William Placher," Dialog 44:3 [2005], 273-84.

"The Indicative of Grace, the Imperative of Freedom: An Invitation to the Theology of Eberhard Jungel," Dialog 44:2 [2005], 164-80.

"Lutheran Political Thought in the Eighteenth Century," forthcoming.

Review of Robert W. Jenson, On Thinking the Human: Resolutions of Difficult Notions, in Dialog 45:1 [2006], 109-11.

Review of Hans Schwarz, Creation, in Theology and Science 4 [2006], forthcoming.

Review of Harvey Cox, When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today in Teaching Theology and Religion 9:1 [January 2006], 63-5.

Research Interests

Religion and public life; religion and natural sciences dialogue; Suffering and the problem of evil; History of fundamentalisms; Evil in Christian-Muslim perspective, Religion and Globalization, History and theology of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; History of church-state relations; Christianity and American culture.