Lutheran Historical Conference Newsletter

Vol. 40, No. 1 … February 2002 … ISSN 0460-0274

Noland Named CHI Director

The Rev. Dr. Martin R. Noland accepted the call and has recently been installed as the director of the Concordia Historical Institute, Saint Louis. He succeeds the Rev. Daniel Preus, who took office as first vice-president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in the fall of 2001. Noland comes to CHI from Christ Lutheran Church, Oak Park, Illinois, where he had served as pastor for 17 years. His B.A. is from Concordia Teacher’s College (now Concordia University), River Forest, Illinois, and both his M.Div. and S.T.M. degrees are from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 1996 he completed a Ph.D. in history from Union Theological Seminary, New York City. Concentrating on Reformation and 19^th century church history, his dissertation was on German church historian Adolf con Harnack. Noland also serves as associate editor of Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology and is vice-president of the Luther Academy.

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