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Allen Jorgenson
Professor of Systematic Theology; Assistant Dean
Dr. Jorgenson has served as Assistant Dean since July 2008 and Professor of Systematic Theology since 2015 and has held the William D. Huras Professor of Ecclesiology and Church History since 2018. He previously served as Assistant Principal from July 2005 to June 2008.
Dr. Jorgenson’s research is especially interested in exploring the intersection between theology as a historical discipline in response to contextual considerations.
For several years he has asked “What might Christians learn from Indigenous insights?”, which has been a humbling and rich exploration. More recently he has been involved in a qualitative research project exploring the experience of parents/guardians of children with disabilities and the support they receive, or not, from faith communities. This work has deepened his commitment to battling ableism.
Allen is presently working on a project entitled “Ageing in a Liminal Time,” which explores well-being in retirement in relationship to group identity/participation and religiosity/spirituality. This project is funded by the John Templeton Foundation. He also researches in the areas of Martin Luther, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and Scandinavian Creation Theology, a theological movement starting in the mid-20th century interested in retrieving Luther’s theology of creation in conversation with contemporary contexts.
- Recipient of 2024-25 Fellowship in Cross-training in Psychology and Theology funded by the John Templeton Foundation and administered by the University of Birmingham for a project entitled “Ageing in a Liminal Time”
- Co-recipient with Laura MacGregor (lead investigator) of a Louisville Research Project Grant entitled “Beyond Saints and Superheroes: A Phenomenological Study of the Spiritual Care Needs of Parents Raising Children with Disabilities.”
- Recipient of Wabash Project Grant for a proposal entitled “Teaching a Theology of Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples."
I am able to assist students in the areas of systematic theology and historical theology.
- 2026 (forthcoming). Edited with Thomas E. Reynolds and Laura MacGregor, Disrupting Stories and Images of Church: Honoring Voices with Lived Experience of Disability. Bloomsbury.
- 2025. “Land, Martyrdom and Mission in a Pluralistic World,” in Redeeming the Sense of the Universal. Edited by Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg, Trygve Wyller, and Niels Henrik Gregersen. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
- 2024. “Embodying Meaning” in Spiritual, Philosophical, and Psychotherapeutic Engagements of Meaning and Service. Edited by Katherine Harper, Thomas St. James O’Connor, Daniel Maoz. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- 2024. “Trade, Usury, and the Incursion of Desire.” Consensus 45 (2), Article 6.
- 2024. With Bethan Riehle‐Johns, Katrina Urquhart, Nancy L Dresser, “Embodying Pedagogy.” Teaching Theology and Religion 27 (3), 101-108.
- 2023. With Laura MacGregor. Beyond Saints and Superheroes: Supporting Parents Raising Children with Disabilities, A Practical Guide for Faith Communities. Mad and Crip Theology Press.
- 2023. “Sin, Shame, and the Subject,” Dialog 62 (3), 270-276.
- 2023. “The Body as Home and Horizon” in Bodies Inhabiting the World: Scandinavian Creation Theology and the Question of Home.” Edited by Derek R. Nelson, Niels Henrik Gregersen, and Bengt Kristensson Uggla. Lexington.
- 2023. With Raymond C. Aldred “Friendship, Treaty, and Family: Indigenous Insights” in Multireligious Reflections on Friendship: Becoming Ourselves in Community. Edited by Anne-Marie Ellithorpe, Laura Duhan-Kaplan, and Hussam S. Timani. Lexington.
- 2022. Edited with Kris Kvam.The Crux of Theology: Freedom, Justice, Peace. Lexington/Fortress.
- 2022. “Crux in the Balance: In Response to Rowe and Overy-Brown” in The Crux of Theology: Martin Luther’s Teaching and Our Work for Freedom, Justice, Peace. Edited by Allen G. Jorgenson and Kristen E. Kvam. Lexington/Fortress.
- 2021. “Embodying Truth in Ecclesial Practices.” In Ecclesiologies of Resistance. Edited by Christine Helmer. Lexington/Fortress.
- 2020. Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue: Kairotic Place and Borders. Lexington.
- 2020. Translation with Iain G. Nicol of FDE Schleirmacher, Jesus’ Life in Dying: Pre-Easter Reflections to the Community of the Redeemer. Cascade.
- 2020. “Contextual Theology in Canada: Between Covenant and Treaty.” In Theology after Christendom: Engaging the Thought of Douglas John Hall. Edited by Pamela McCarroll and Patricia Kirkpatrick. Lexington/Fortress.
- 2020. “A Lutheran Response to Luther’s Unsettling Antisemitism.” Consensus 41 (2) Article 4.