Denis Janz
Professor Emeritus
Education
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1979
M.A., University of St. Michael's College, 1974
B.A., University of Winnipeg, 1971
Departments
- College of Arts and Sciences
- Religious Studies
Expertise
- Religion
Bio
Denis R. Janz received his Ph.D. from St. Michael鈥檚 College in the University of Toronto in 1979. After coming to Loyola in that year, he served terms as Department Chair and Director of Graduate Studies. He was awarded a Provost Distinguished Professorship in 2000 and was promoted to Professor Emeritus in 2017.
He is author of Luther and Late Medieval Thomism (1983), Luther on Thomas Aquinas (1989), and World Christianity and Marxism (1998). He edited Three Reformation Catechisms (1982), and A Reformation Reader (1999 and 2008). He served as General Editor of Fortress Press鈥檚 prize-winning seven-volume People鈥檚 History of Christianity (2005-2008), and Series Editor of Fortress Press鈥檚 five-volume Historical Trajectories project (2016-2019).
Janz鈥檚 research and lecturing have taken him to some twenty countries around the world. In addition, he has held residential fellowships at the University of Louvain (1997); the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio (2001); The Tantur Institute for Ecumenical Studies in Jerusalem (2011); the Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek in Emden (2015); and the Fondatione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII in Bologna (2016).
Publications
Martin Luther鈥檚 鈥楾he Church Held Captive in Babylon鈥: Latin-English Edition, With a New Translation and Introduction. (Oxford University Press, 2019).
鈥淭o Hell (and Back) With Luther.鈥 In K. Stjerna and B. Schramm, eds., Encounters with Luther: New Directions for Critical Studies. (Westminster John Knox Press, 2011), 17-29.
鈥淲hore or Handmaid? Luther and Aquinas on the Function of Reason in Theology,鈥 in The Devil鈥檚 Whore: Reason and Philosophy in the Lutheran Tradition, ed. Jennifer H. Dragseth, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011), pp. 47-52.
鈥淭o Hell (and Back) With Luther: The Dialectic of Anfechtung and Faith,鈥 in Seminary Ridge Review, 13 (2011), 41-55.
鈥淓ine neue Agenda f眉r Kirchengeschichte,鈥 in Religion als Lebensmacht: Eine Festgabe f眉r Gottfriend K眉enzlen, eds. Jochen Bohn and Thomas Bohrmann, (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2010), pp. 21-34.
"The Westminster Handbook to Martin Luther." (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010).