禁漫天堂

Martin Dotterweich

Professor of History & Director, King Institute for Faith & Culture

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423.652.4835 [email protected]

I grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, not so far from King, and my student days took me to Chicago, Boston, and Scotland. I studied literature and philosophy at Wheaton College, then received the MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and finally the PhD from the University of Edinburgh. After six years in Scotland, I returned to teach for five years in Memphis, and came to King in 2004. I live here with my wife Heather and our children Kathleen and Peter.

I direct the King (formerly Buechner) Institute for Faith and Culture, which is dedicated to exploring how faith engages culture, for both King faculty and students and the broader community. We host an annual speaker series which brings artists and authors, engineers and entrepreneurs, poets and priests, and many others to cultivate a conversation that is both artful and substantial on things that matter. We seek to create a space for people to meet and converse in an atmosphere of gracious openness, full of hope, expecting serendipity.

I am a Faculty Fellow of the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE), a program of the Council for Independent Colleges funded generously by the Lilly Endowment. I lead vocational exploration in various contexts at King, for faculty and staff and students, and I have contributed a chapter to a NetVUE Scholarly Resources book, written for聽Vocation Matters,聽the NetVUE blog, and hosted a NetVUE Regional Conference, “Storytelling and Vocation.” I am currently researching the work of Frederick Buechner as part of my work in this field.

My teaching ranges widely, but I am most at home when I’m talking about the history of Christianity (especially Medieval and Reformation), or the history of books, or the history of Scotland. Irrespective of subject matter, though, I aspire to offer my students (and myself) the chance to engage the inescapable questions of life along with persons from the past. Here we discover the brilliance of our forbears, and their flaws, and our own part in an ongoing, shared quest. Here faith and history meet, and the results can change us – usually by complicating our questions.

Beyond my scholarly work, I am interested in writers of the early twentieth century who found in the past a vital and direct answer to the agonizing questions of their own day: G.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, and especially Charles Williams.

• PhD University of Edinburgh (supervisors David F. Wright and Jane E.A. Dawson)
• MDiv Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
• BA Wheaton College (IL)

Seminars

• 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities, “Researching Early Modern Manuscripts and Printed Books” (four weeks, New York City)
• 2012 Folger Shakespeare Library, “Teaching Book History” (three days, Washington, DC)

Articles

1. “A book for Lollards and Protestants: Murdoch Nisbet鈥檚 New Testament,” in Crawford Gribben and David G. Mullan (eds), Literature and the Scottish Reformation (Ashgate, May 2009), pp. 233-246
2. “Sacraments and the Church in the Scottish evangelical mind, 1528-1555,” Records of the Scottish Church History Society 36 (2006), pp. 41-71
3. “Conciliar Authority in Reformation Scotland: The Example of the Kennedy/Davidson Debate, 1558-63,” in The Church Retrospective, ed R.N. Swanson, Studies in Church History vol. 33 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1997), pp. 289-306

4. 鈥淲eaving Others into the Tapestry of Memory,鈥� in Erin VanLaningham (ed.), Called Beyond Ourselves: Vocation and the Common Good (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024)

5. 鈥淗abit and Belief in the Scottish Reformation,鈥� in Mark Elliott and David Fergusson (eds), The Oxford History of Scottish Theology, volume 1: Celtic Origins to Reformed Orthodoxy(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 173-188

Reference

1. Entries for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004):
   1. Balnaves, Henry
   2. Borthwick, John
   3. Buckenham, Robert
   4. Lekpreuik, Robert
   5. Nisbet, Murdoch
   6. Wishart, George
2. Entries for Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, ed Timothy Larsen (Downer鈥檚 Grove: Inter-Varsity Press, 2003):
   1. Knox, John
   2. Melville, Andrew

Other publications

1. George Wishart Quincentennial Conference Proceedings, ed Martin Holt Dotterweich (London: Scott Wishart, 2014), introduction and chapter “George Wishart in England”
2. “A Mentor to Knox,” Life and Work: The Magazine of the Church of Scotland (August, 2013), pp. 38-39
3. Foreword to a reprint of D.P. Thompson, George Wishart: The Man who Roused Scotland (St Andrews, 2013)

4. 鈥淩emembering Frederick Buechner 1926-2022,鈥� for Vocation Matters (the blog of NetVUE), 29 August 2022

5. 鈥淎lice Caldwell 鈥�51: 8/11/29-7/13/2020,鈥� King: A Magazine for Alumni & Friends of 禁漫天堂, Fall 2020, p. 27

6. 鈥淎rts are Invaluable to Children and Families,鈥� A! Magazine for the Arts, vol. 27 no. 3 (March, 2020), p. 5

7. 鈥淩emembering Tom Peake,鈥� in Bettie Whitlow Hite, 禁漫天堂: Our Sesquicentennial Story: 150 Years of Faith, Learning, and Life, (Bristol: 禁漫天堂, 2018), p. 103

8. 鈥淣eal Caldwell 1932-2018,鈥� King Magazine, Fall 2018, pp. 35-36

9. 鈥淚n Memoriam: Dale Brown,鈥� A! Magazine for the Arts, November 2014, p. 23

Lectures

1. 2014 “Prophecy, Preaching, and Print: The Voices of John Knox,” North American Symposium on John Knox (Montreat, North Carolina)
2. 2013 “George Wishart in England,” George Wishart Quincentennial Conference (St Andrews, Scotland)
3. 2012 “The Man in the Leather Mask: Prophecy and Calvinism in Early Modern Scotland,” The University of Evansville Spring History Lecture (Evansville, Indiana)
4. 2010 “Presbyterian Prophets or Second-sighted Scots? Telling the future in early modern Scotland,” Edinburgh University Ecclesiastical History Graduate Seminar (Edinburgh, Scotland)

5. 2022聽聽聽聽 鈥淩emembering the Scottish Reformation,鈥� Distinguished Reformation Lecture, Presbyterian Heritage Center (Montreat, NC)

6. 2017聽聽聽聽 鈥淢artin Luther and the 95 Theses: 500 Years of a Theological Legacy,鈥� and 鈥淭he 95 Theses and the Bible: Sola Scriptura and Protestant Interpretation鈥� (Asbury University)

7. 2017聽聽聽聽 鈥淪tirrings and Protests: The Pre-Reformation,鈥� and 鈥淩eformation: Conflict and Chaos 1568-1685,鈥� Reformation500 Conference, Presbyterian Heritage Center (Montreat, NC)

Conference papers

1. 2011 “Setting Light in the Margins: English Bible Annotators Before the King James Version,” The King James Bible and the World It Made 1611-2011 (Baylor University)
2. 2010 “Presbyterian Prophets and Second-sighted Scots: Theology and the future in early modern Scotland,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Montr茅al, Qu茅bec)
3. 2006 “鈥楢lsweall in privy conferance as in doctrin鈥�: How early modern Scottish evangelicals became Protestants,” Scottish Church History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland)
4. 2004 “Evangelicals and the Church in pre-Reformation Scotland,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Toronto, Ontario)
5. 2003 “Miles Coverdale and the Publication of English Reform,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
6. 2000 “The Analogy of Faith and English Bible Paratexts,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Cleveland, Ohio)
7. 2000 “The Pastor as Annotator: Miles Coverdale and the English New Testament,” Pacific Tyndale Conference (San Diego, California)
8. 1999 “Scotorum primus et idem inclytus apostolus: Patrick Hamilton鈥檚 Place in the Scottish Reformation,” Society for Reformation Studies (Cambridge, England)
9. 1998 “Piety, Persecution, and Proselytization: Scottish Protestantism Before the Reformation,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Toronto, Ontario)
10. 1997 “鈥楽ome spunk of God鈥檚 light鈥�: Lollards and Protestants in Scotland,” Scottish Universities Ecclesiastical History Reading Party (Perth, Scotland)
11. 1996 “George Wishart鈥檚 Translation of the First Helvetic Confession,” Reformation Studies Colloquium (St Andrews, Scotland)
12. 1996 “A 鈥榞ret variance of opinioun鈥�? Scottish Protestants and the Lord鈥檚 Supper, 1528-58,” European Reformation Research Group (Stonyhurst, England)
13. 1995 “The Debate between Quentin Kennedy and John Davidson 1558-63: Understanding the authority of Church councils in the Scottish Reformation,” Ecclesiastical History Society (Norwich, England)

14. 2017聽聽聽聽 鈥淗abit and Belief in the Early Scottish Reformation,鈥� Scottish Philosophy and Reformed Theology (Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, Princeton Theological Seminary)

15. 2016聽聽聽聽 鈥淩eligious Identity in Early Modern Scotland: A Reconsideration,鈥� Conference on Faith and History (Regent University)

16. 2015聽聽聽聽 鈥淕reatness and Humility: An Imaginative Turn from the Historical Mirror,鈥� Faith and Teaching: Virtue, Practice, and Imagination (Kuyers Institute, Calvin College)