PAUL ROREM
Benjamin B. Warfield Professor
of (Medieval) Ecclesiastical History
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, New Jersey 08542
(609) 497-7998
Email: [email protected]
Personal
Born on December 8, 1948, raised in Appleton, Minnesota. Married to Katherine Skrebutenas;
daughter Anna, son Joseph.
97 Randall Road
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
(609) 924-1940
Education
Ph.D. summa cum laude, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, 1980,
Church History, "Biblical and Liturgical Symbols in Pseudo-Dionysius"
S.T.M., The Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA, 1975
M.Div., Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, MN, 1973
B.A., St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, 1970
Previous Employment History
1993-97
Associate Professor, Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, NJ 08542
1992-93
Visiting Lecturer, Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, NJ 08542
1986-92
Associate Professor of Early and Medieval Church History
(re-appointed in 1989, with tenure)
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
1100 E. 55th Street, Chicago, IL 60615
1981-86
Pastor, Our Savior's Lutheran Church
50 Calvert Avenue East, Edison, NJ 08820
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Other Teaching Experience
Guest Professor, Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, 2006, 2015
Summer School Faculty, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1988
Visiting Lecturer, Church History, Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, 1985
Visiting Lecturer, History Department, Princeton University, 1984
Continuing Theological Education Coordinator, Eastern Dist. ALC, 1981-86
Lutheran Confessions, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1981-86
Teaching Fellow, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1976-80
Instructor in Greek, Luther Theological Seminary, 1974-75
Instructor in Greek, Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, 1973
Ecclesiastical Responsibilities
Lutheran-Orthodox Dialogues, USA 1982-90
Board of Theological Education and Ministry, ALC, 1982-87
Consultation on Theological Education: ALC, LCA, and AELC, 1984-86
Acting Director of Pastoral Studies (M.Div. program), LSTC, 1988
ELCA Task Force on the Study of Theological Education, 1989-95
Internship Cluster Coordinator, NJ Synod, ELCA, 1992-2014
Honors and Fellowships
Dudleian Lecture, Harvard Divinity School, April 17, 2008
Visitor, School of Historical Studies, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, 1998-99,
2006-07
Lilly Faculty Fellowship (ATS) 1998-99
Member, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, 1990, 1991-92, and 2002-03
Summer Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Center of Byzantine Studies, Washington,
D.C., 1981
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval
Studies, Toronto, 1980-81
Fulbright Fellowship, Rome, 1978-79
Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst Research Stipend, Göttingen, West
Germany 1978
Die Evangelische Kirche Deutschland Goethe Institut Stipend, Radolfzell, West
Germany, 1975
The Sadtler Teaching Fellowship, The Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia,
1974-75
The G.M. Bruce Prize in Biblical Studies, Luther Theological Seminary, 1973
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Publications
"Luther's Objection to the Eucharistic Prayer," The Cresset (Valparaiso University) 38.5 (1975):
12-16
"The Place of The Mystical Theology in the Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus," Dionysius 4
(1980): 87-98
"An Influence of Peter Lombard on the Biblical Hermeneutics of Thomas Aquinas," Rivista di
Storia e Letteratura Religiosa 16 (1980): 429-434.
"Iamblichus and the Anagogical Method in Pseudo-Dionysian Liturgical Theology," Studia
Patristica XVIII (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1982): 453-460.
"Canonical Hours," "Carnival," "Corpus Christi, Feast of," The Dictionary of the Middle Ages,
Vol. 3 (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1983): 66-67, 99, 608.
"Easter," The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Vol. 4 (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1984):
364-368.
Biblical and Liturgical Symbols Within the Pseudo-Dionysian Synthesis (Toronto:
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1984) (Studies and Texts, 71).
"The Uplifting Spirituality of Pseudo-Dionysius," Christian Spirituality, Origins to the Twelfth
Century (Volume 16 of World Spirituality), ed. B. McGinn, J. Meyendorff (New
York: Crossroad, 1985): 132-151.
"Lent," The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Vol. 7 (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1986): 541.
"Toward Liturgical Hermeneutics: Some Byzantine Examples," Currents in Theology and
Mission 13 (1986): 346-353.
The Medieval Development of Liturgical Symbolism (Bramcote/Nottingham: Grove Books, 1986
(Grove Liturgical Study, 47)
Foreword, translation collaboration, notes, bibliography, and indices of The Complete Works of
Pseudo-Dionysius (New York: Paulist Press, 1987). (Classics of Western
Spirituality).
"Calvin and Bullinger on the Lord's Supper," Lutheran Quarterly 2 (1988):155-184, 357-389.
(Now in book form as Alcuin/GROW Liturgical Study 12 (1989).
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"Moses as the Paradigm for the Liturgical Spirituality of Pseudo-Dionysius," Studia Patristica
18 (1989): 275-9.
"The Biblical Allusions and Overlooked Quotations in the Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus," Studia
Patristica 23 (1989): 61-5.
“Mission and Ministry in the Early Church: Bishop, Presbyter and Deacons, but...” Currents in
Theology and Mission 17 (1990): 15-22.
Biblical Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective. Studies in Honor of Karlfried Froehlich on
His Sixtieth Birthday. Co-edited with Mark S. Burrows. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1991).
"The Filioque Issue in Protestant-Orthodox Dialogues," The Theological Review [Near East
School of Theology, Beirut] 12 (1991): 63-80.
"'Procession and Return' in Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors," The Princeton Seminary
Bulletin 13.2 (July 1992): 147-163.
Pseudo-Dionysius. A Commentary on the Texts and an Introduction to their Influence (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
"John of Scythopolis on Apollinarian Christology and the Pseudo-Areopagite's True Identity,"
Church History 62 (1993): 469-482, with John C. Lamoreaux.
"The Consensus Tigurinus (1549): Did Calvin Compromise?" Calvinus Sacrae Theologiae
Professor, ed. W. Neuser, 1990 International Congress on Calvin Research (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994), pp. 72-90.
"The End of All Offertory Processions," dialog 35 (1996): 247-50.
“Lover and Mother: Medieval Language for God and the Soul,” in Women, Gender and
Christian Community ed. Jane Dempsey Douglass and James Kay (Louisville:
Westminster/John Knox, 1997), pp. 46-54.
“The Doctrinal Concerns of John of Scythopolis, the First Dionysian Scholiast,” in
Denys l’Aréopagite et sa postérité en Orient et en Occident ed. Ysabel de Andia
(Paris:Études Augustiniennes, 1997), 187-200.
“Martin Luther’s Christocentric Critique of Pseudo-Dionysian Spirituality,” Lutheran Quarterly
11 (Autumn, 1997): 291-307.
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Editor of posthumous work by E. Theodore Bachmann, The United Lutheran Church in America
1918-1962 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997).
John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus: Annotating the Areopagite, with John C.
Lamoreaux (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998) (Oxford Early Christian Studies)
“Empathy and Evaluation in Medieval Church History and Pastoral Ministry: A Lutheran
Reading of Pseudo-Dionysius,” The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 19.2 (July 1998): 99115.
“Dionysius the Areopagite.” In Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, ed. G.W.
Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1999. Pp. 410-1.
“Review Essay: Whole Histories of Mysticism (McGinn) and Preaching (Old),” Lutheran
Quarterly 14 (2000) 213-24.
“Dionigi l’Areopagita.” In Patrologia V: I Padri orientali (secoli V-VIII), ed. Angelo di
Berardino. Genoa: Marietti, 2000. Pp.135-43.
“Augustine, the Medieval Theologians and the Reformation,” in The Medieval Theologians, ed.
G.R. Evans (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), pp. 365-72.
“Saints Cyril and Methodius, Valentine’s Day, and True Love” (sermon), in Preaching
1 Corinthians 13, ed. Susan K. Hedahl and Richard Carlson (St. Louis: Chalice, 2001),
175-178.
“Augustine For and Against ‘Spirituality,’” inSpire (Winter, 2002): 12-13.
“Augustine and Luther for and against Contemporary ‘Spirituality,’” Currents in Theology and
Mission 30 (2003): 96-104.
“The Company of Medieval Women Theologians,” Theology Today 60 (2003): 82-93.
“Christ as Cornerstone, Worm, and Phoenix in Eriugena’s Commentary on Dionysius,”
Dionysius 21 (2003): 183-96.
Eriugena’s Commentary on the Dionysian “Celestial Hierarchy” (Toronto: Pontifical Institute
of Mediaeval Studies, 2005) (Studies and Texts, 150)
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“Foreword” to The Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite by Christian Schafer (Leiden: Brill,
2006), xiii-xvi.
“Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite,” in The History of Christianity, Jonathan Hill, editor
(Oxford: Lion, 2007), p. 103.
“Negative Theologies and the Cross,” Harvard Theological Review 101: 3-4 (2008): 451-464.
“The Early Latin Dionysius: Eriugena and Hugh of St. Victor,” Modern Theology 24:4 (2008):
601-614. Also published in Re-thinking Dionysius the Areopagite, ed. Sarah Coakley
and Charles Stang (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 71-84.
Hugh of Saint Victor (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
“Dionysian Uplifting (Anagogy) in Bonaventure’s Reductio,” Franciscan Studies 70 (2012):
183-188.
“Bonaventure’s Ideal and Hugh of St. Victor’s Comprehensive Biblical Theology,” Franciscan
Studies 70 (2012): 385-397.
The Dionysian Mystical Theology (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2015).
Associate Editor, Lutheran Quarterly, 1992-1996
Editor, Lutheran Quarterly, 1996-present
Editor, Lutheran Quarterly Books (Eerdmans 2003-2016; Fortress Press, 2016-present)
Series Advisor, “Mapping the Tradition,” Fortress Press, 2014-present.