Nicholas Hopman

PhD Candidate | History & Ecumenics (Reformation History)

• nicholas.hopman@ptsem.edu

Profile
Hopman has served over a dozen years as a parish pastor at Evangelical-Lutheran churches, including a bilingual (German-English) congregation in Vancouver, British Columbia. This experience has spurred his interest in the piety of the common people during the Reformation and his dissertation explores the role of hymn books and the use of hymns, including medieval Leisen, in early Evangelical Strasbourg. More broadly, he is interested in the role of sixteenth-century printing and communication, and how theological claims were transmitted to and received by the masses. He is an editor for the scholarly journal Lutheran Quarterly and has published his own work extensively, along with more than a half-dozen translations of leading German scholars, including three articles from Oswald Bayer.