26 February 2026
In July and August 2026 the fifth Summer Course of the Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies for PhD students will take place in Wittenberg, Germany. This year’s topic is the The Bible in the Sister Reformations of the sixteenth century.
The Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies thanks its academic partners for recommending Student Fellows for the upcoming summer course on Reformation and the Bible. All spots have been filled, and several Research and Teaching Fellows have confirmed their participation. Professor Daniele Garrone, who taught the Old Testament at the Waldensian Faculty in Rome, will be the 2026 Research Fellow.
In addition to his exegetical work on the Old Testament, Garrone is interested in Reformation hermeneutics and Christian-Jewish relations. Bruce Gordon, author of “The Bible: A Global History” and professor at the Yale Divinity School, has agreed to teach for a whole week. One-day Teaching Fellows include Jennifer Powell McNutt (Wheaton College), Thomas Kaufmann (University of Göttingen), Robert Kolb (Concordia Seminary), Aleksandra Lipińska (University of Cologne), Colin Donnelly (Oxford University), Jan van der Kamp (Theological University of Apeldoorn), and Frauke Thees (Studienseminar Leer).
The Wittenberg Center leadership team — consisting of Ashley Null, Dorothea Wendebourg, and Andreas Stegmann — will also teach. The Student Fellows are coming from of University of St. Andrews, Andrews University (Michigan), Boston University, Concordia Seminary St. Louis, Duke University, Durham University, Pontifical Gregorian University Rome, Samford University, University of Toronto, Westminster Seminary California, and Yale University. They are pursuing or preparing for doctoral research in various fields, including history, theology, and biblical exegesis. We look forward to exploring the Bible in the Reformation this summer!
