Dan Van Voorhis
Dan van Voorhis (PhD, University of St. Andrews) served as professor and chair of the Department of History at Concordia University, Irvine. He is currently a scholar-in-residence with 1517 and is the host of the daily podcast The Christian History Almanac.
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Orthodox and Pious: Johann Gerhard’s Marriage of Doctrine and Devotion
What is a Pietist? I’ve been searching for a good answer to this question since my graduate student days when I was studying this remarkable seventeenth-century movement and its subsequent influence. One common perception I found is that a Pietist is simply a Lutheran version of a Puritan. But then, what is a Puritan? […]
Art and the Reformation with Guest Dr. Dan van Voorhis
Bob Hiller is joined by Dan van Voorhis to discuss a theology of the arts and how Reformational theology, and Lutheran theology specifically, instructs Christians on the place of art as we live coram deo (in the presence of God). They discuss if art can be “redeemed,” cultivating good taste in art, differences in Lutheran and Reformed traditions, and more.
