Dirk G. Lange is Associate Professor of Worship at Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, MN where he teaches Worship and Lutheran Confessional Writings. He received his PhD in theology from Emory University. Working in the area of constructive liturgical theology, he re-reads classic theological texts through the lens of liturgy, trauma theory and post-structuralist literary theory. He recently published Trauma Recalled: Liturgy, Disruption and Theology (Fortress Press, 2009), which explores a new language for Martin Luther’s Eucharistic hermeneutic. His ministerial experience has covered a wide spectrum of activities, but all under one umbrella: liturgy in the lives of people. During the 1980s, as a brother of Taizé, he worked with prayer groups in the Eastern European underground. During the early 1990’s, he was engaged with the prayer and songs of Taizé working closely with the composer, Father Joseph Gelineau, SJ. Dirk is interested in the ways liturgical disruption can rewrite ecclesiology and ecumenism. He is an ordained pastor in the ELCA.

Homepage: http://www.luthersem.edu/dlange/