Professor of Church History; Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs; Director of International Initiatives
Bio
In addition to teaching church history at Candler since 1997, Dr. Jonathan Strom is the director of international initiatives, helping Candler students navigate the opportunities for study abroad while in seminary. Strom was named associate dean of faculty and academic affairs in 2015 and promoted to SeniorAssociateDean of Faculty and Academic Affairs in 2019.
Strom’s research interests include Pietism in continental Europe, the history of the Protestant clergy, and the emergence of modern forms of piety and religious practice. He has written widely on the clergy, lay religion, and reform movements in post-Reformation Germany, and is the author/editor of five books, most recently German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion (Penn State Press, 2018). Strom is currently at work on one project, the history of the common priesthood.