Dr. Korey D. Maas
Reformation & Revolution: Lutheran Political Theology and Its American Echoes
The political thought of the sixteenth-century Reformers—and its potential relevance for the modern world—has received increasing attention in recent years, with the semiquincentennial commemoration of the American founding providing an especially apt occasion for some focused reflection. This presentation will therefore offer, 1.) a brief overview of Luther’s own political theology, 2.) it’s practical development and implementation in the 1550 Magdeburg Confession, and 3.) the subsequent role of this Confession’s ideas in the development of the “Protestant Resistance Theory” that eventually informed American revolutionary thought.
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The Rev. Dr. Korey Maas is Associate Professor and Chairman of the History Department at Hillsdale College and an Assistant Pastor at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hillsdale, Michigan. He holds his B.A. from Concordia University, River Forest, the M.Div. from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. Author and editor of a number of books, essays, and articles, he is currently co-editing a volume on the relationship(s) between the Reformation and the American Revolution. He and his wife Kate live on a small farm in southern Michigan, where they homeschool their five children.