John Burgess

Professor of Systematic Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

John P. Burgess (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1986) is the James Henry Snowden Professor of Systematic Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. His publications include The East German Church and the End of Communism, Why Scripture Matters, Encounters with Orthodoxy, and Holy Rus’: The Renewal of Orthodoxy in the New Russia, and articles in professional journals and popular magazines. He is the translator of essays by Wolf Krötke, Karl Barth, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Theologians for a Post-Christian World. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the Henry Luce III Foundation, and the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey. He is working on a theological biography of the Evangelical seminary in communist East Berlin, where Eberhard Jüngel first taught.