Kenneth G. Appold
James Hastings Nichols Associate Professor of Reformation History
Department of History
110 Stockton Street
Phone: 609.497.3664
Fax: 609.497.7829
Email: kenneth.appold@ptsem.edu

Kenneth G. Appold is the James Hastings Nichols Associate Professor of Reformation History at Princeton Theological Seminary. Appold earned his B.A., M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University, and his Dr.theol.habil. from the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Prior to coming to Princeton, he served as a research professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France, and taught church history at the Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. His areas of interest include the history and legacy of the Reformation, and the history of Christian ecumenism. He teaches courses on the Reformation in Europe, with particular focus on early Lutheranism, and on the Radical Reformation and the Catholic Reformation, as well on the history of church-state relations. A member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Appold serves as cochair of the Lutheran-Pentecostal International Study Group and as a theological consultant for the Lutheran World Federation’s ecumenical dialogues with the Anglican Communion and with the Orthodox churches.

Abraham Calov’s Doctrine of Vocatio in Its Systematic Context Beitrage zur historischen Theologie, vol. 103. J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck, 1998)
Orthodoxie als Konsensbildung. Das theologische Disputationswesen an der Universitat Wittenberg zwischen 1570 und 1710  Beitrage zur historischen Theologie, vol. 127. J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck, 2004)
A Brief History of the Reformation (Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming)