The Rev. Dr. Gilson A. C. Waldkoenig
Professor of Church in Society
E-mail: gwaldkoenig@Ltsg.edu
Phone: 717.334.6286 ext. 3029
Personal Website: http://townandcountrychurch.wordpress.com/
Biography:
Gil interfaces rural and environmental history with the history of Christianity and religion, seeking to understand how traditions, beleifs and practices inform ethics, ministry and community today. Recent courses include Ecology and Religion; EcoTheology in Northern Appalachia (immersion seminar); Places of Faith: Ethnography of Religion; Rural and Small Church Ministries and Environmental History of Christianity. Gil taught at Lancaster Theological Seminary and Payne Theological Seminary in 2012-13. He serves in the BB Maurer Chair for Town and Country Church Ministry and directs TCCI. He participates in the Blessed Earth Seminary Stewardship Alliance, GreenFaith: Interfaith Partners for the Environment and Lutherans Restoring Creation.
Education:
B.A. Gettysburg College, 1985
M.Div., Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, 1989
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1994
Publications:
Selected Publications:
“Scenes and Means of Grace,” Dialog: A Journal of Theology (Winter, 2011)
“Margins and Hope,” sermon for Earth Ministry (2011) http://tinyurl.com/6ln6xty
“E.W. Mueller,” Journal of Lutheran Ethics (July 2011) http://tinyurl.com/7d37ldm
“Rural Church Movement,” Encyclopedia of Rural America (Grey House, 2008)
“Lutherans” and other articles, Encyclopedia of Appalachia (U. Tenn. Press, 2006)
Cooperating Congregations: Profiles of Mission Strategies, with Wm. O. Avery (Alban, 2000)
Symbiotic Community: E.W. Mueller's Response to the Rural Social Crisis (Univ. Press of Am., 1996)
The Lost Land: E.W. Mueller's Vision for Regional Community, editor (Tyrone, 1995)