Jonathan Mumme
Philosophy & Religion

Jonathan Mumme

Associate Professor of Theology
"If one has a gracious God, then everything is good."
— Martin Luther, The Smalcald Articles III,xiii:3

Faculty Information

Additional Faculty Information for Jonathan Mumme

Education

Dr. theol., Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 2013
M. Div., Concordia Seminary, 2006
B.A., Concordia University Chicago, 2000

Memberships, Societies

American Academy of Religion
Society for the Study of Theology
Evangelical Theological Society
Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference
Chicago Theological Initiative

Jonathan Mumme is associate professor of theology at Hillsdale College. Before joining the faculty at Hillsdale he taught at Concordia University Wisconsin (2014-2021) and Westfield House in Cambridge (2012-14). Working in systematic theology and in the history of doctrines and ideas, his research focuses primarily on ecclesiology, Martin Luther and Reformation studies, and theology and society. His dissertation (University of Tübingen), Die Präsenz Christi im Amt, is published with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2015). He serves as an editor for Lutherische Beiträge and formerly co-chaired the Marquette Ecumenical Martin Luther Working Group. Mumme is co-editor of Feasting in a Famine of the Word of God (Pickwick, 2016), Luther at Leipzig (Brill, 2019), and Church as Fullness in All Things (Lexington/Fortress, 2019). With his wife and four children he resides in Hillsdale where he enjoys cutting and splitting wood in his spare time.