Curriculum vitae Jeffrey P. Jaynes
Methodist Theological School in Ohio 3081 Columbus Pike Delaware, OH 43015 (740) 363-1146 (614) 208-2749 E-mail: [email protected]
Education: Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1993 Dissertation: "Ordo et libertas: Church Discipline and the Social Vision of the Makers of Church Order in Sixteenth Century Northern Germany;" Professor James Kittelson, advisor.
Master of Divinity, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, 1980
B.A. in Rhetoric and Communication, summa cum laude, California State University, Fresno, CA, 1976
Professional Experience: Academic Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Delaware, Ohio: 1992-present Professor, Warner Chair of Church History, (2007- ) Associate Professor (1999-2007) Assistant and Visiting Professor (1992-1999)
Administration and Leadership Assistant to MTSO Development Office, 2010-11, 2017-present Grant-writing, Donor solicitation, Coordination of Anniversary Celebration
Director, Doctor of Ministry Degree, 2004-07, 2017- present Program strategic planning, Fund-raising, Student recruitment
Interim Academic Dean, 2002-04 Head of Academic Staff, Institutional Strategic Planning, Faculty Development
Assistant Dean, 1996-98 Dean of Student Life, Self-study coordination and writing
Instruction (syllabi available on request) CH 501: Survey of Global Christian History CH 235: Church History II, Medieval to Modern Church History CH 629: History of Christian Spirituality 1 CH 740: The Holocaust: Roots, Realities, Ramifications CH 642: Culture, Conflict, and Christian Mission in the Old World and the New WR 158: Islam and the Christian West DS 394: History and Doctrine of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio: 2018-present Depart of Religion and Philosophy, Adjunct Faculty member
Instruction Religion 2150: History of Modern Christianity
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio: 1987- 1992 Dissertation Year Teaching Fellow, (1991-92) Graduate Teaching Associate, (1987-91)
Instruction History 111, 112: Western Civilization, Antiquity to Modern Era History 151: American Civilization to 1877
Professional Experience: Pastoral Ministry Ordination: Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., Presbytery of the San Joaquin, June, 1980.
Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio: 2016-present Parish Associate
Covenant Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio: 1994-97 Parish Associate/ Pastor of Visitation
First Presbyterian Church, Sanger, CA: 1979- 1987. Pastor (1986-87); Associate Pastor (1979-86)
Glendale Presbyterian Church, Glendale, CA: 1977- 1979. Director of Senior High Ministries
Professional Experience: Business Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, Oakland, CA, 1977-79 Life Insurance Agent
Academic Grants, Awards and Honors Senior Research Scholar, Land Niedersachsen, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel,
2 Germany, Spring, 2015
Cameron Faculty Fellow, Reformation Studies Institute, St Andrew’s University, St Andrew’s, Scotland. Fellowship for Fall (Martinmas) Term, 2014
Faculty Fellowship, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, 2014-15
Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar, United States Holocaust Museum, January 5-9, 2009
Association of Theological Schools (ATS), Lilly Endowment Theological Research Grant, 2007: funding cartography research at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich; British Library, London; Beinecke Library, Yale University; New York Public Library
Faculty Fellowship, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, 2007-08
Joint Fellowship, Newberry Library/ Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, 2001; also funding cartography research at the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
Newberry Library, Chicago, Short-term Fellowship for Project: “Christianity Beyond Christendom: Cartographic Images in Medieval Mappaemundi and Early Modern World Maps,” 2001
Faculty Fellowship, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, 2000-01
“Cartography, Maps, and Teaching Church History” Lilly Endowment Teaching and Technology Grant, MTSO and the Theological Consortium of Greater Columbus, 1999- 2000
Dr. Günther Findel-Stiftung zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, Fellowship presented by the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, 1991
Graduate Student Alumni Research Award, Ohio State University, December, 1990
Paleography Institute Fellowship, Center for Reformation Research, St. Louis, MO, Summer, 1990
Ruth Higgins Award, Department of History, Ohio State University, Spring, 1990
Sierra Hospital Foundation, Fresno, CA, 1976
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, California State University, Fresno, CA, 1975-76
Publications Books 3 Christianity Beyond Christendom: The Global Christian Experience on Medieval ‘Mappaemundi’ and Early Modern World Maps, Wolfenbüttler Forschungen no. 149 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018); ISBN: 9783447107150.
“From Luther to Lutheranism: Architects of Church Order in Sixteenth Century North Germany.” Working title for a monograph on Lutheran church ordinances and the evolution of the state-church in sixteenth century Germany.
Articles in Journals, Books, Encyclopedias “Church Ordinances/ Kirchenordnungen,” “Church Law” and, “The Palatinate,” in Timothy Wengert, ed., Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran Traditions (Baker Academic Press, 2017).
“African Christians, Christians visiting Africa: the Early Modern Narrative Cosmographies from Breydenbach to al-hassan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan [Leo Africanus],” in Betina Braun and Judith Becker, eds., Die Begegnung mit Fremden in ihrer Bedeutung für das Geschichtsbewusstsein, Veröffentlichung des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz Beiheft 88 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2012), 229-41.
“Creating Order in the American Wilderness: State Church Germans without the State,” in Randolph Vigne and Charles Littleton, eds., From Strangers to Citizens: The Integration of Immigrant Communities in Britain, Ireland, and Colonial America, 1550-1750 (Sussex Press, 2001) 342-50.
“Martin Luther” biographical article in James Hardin, ed. Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, vol. 2, German Writers (Detroit: Brucoli, Clark and Layman, 1999): 464-477.
“Hear Us, Beloved Lord God: Public Litanies in a World of Print,” The Journal of Theology (Summer, 1999).
“Test Marketing Foreign Policy,” Christian Century, March 11, 1998.
“Martin Luther,” biographical article in German Writers of the Late Middle Ages, Humanism, and the Reformation: 1280-1580, v. 179 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 1997): 135-51.
“Church Ordinances” in the Encyclopedia of the Reformation (London: Oxford University Press, 1996), I: 345-51.
“Corvinus, Antonius” and “Dietrich, Veit” in the Encyclopedia of the Reformation (London: Oxford University Press, 1996), I: 434, 485.
Books Reviews Maciej Ptaszy ski, Beruf und Berufung: Die evangelische Geistlichkeit und die Konfessionsbildung in den Herzogtümern Pommern, 1560-1618, in Sixteenth Century Journal, ń 4 Summer, 2019
Keith Stanglin, ed. A Reader in Christian Theology: The Reformation to the Modern Church in Church History and Religious Culture, vol. 96, no. 3 (2016)
Irene Dingel and Armin Kohnle, eds., Gute Ordnung. Ordnungsmodelle und Ordnungsvorstellungen in der Reformationszeit in Lutheran Quarterly , vol. 30, no. 1 (2016)
Hans Mol, Calvin for the Third Millennium in Review of Religious Research (2011)
Margaret Schuchard, ed., Bernard Varenius (1622-1650), Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, 159, for H-German, 29 July 2009
Judith Becker, Gemeindeordnung und Kirchenzucht. Johannes a Lascos Kirchenordnung für London (1555) und die reformierte Konfessionsbildung, in Renaissance Quarterly 61 (Winter, 2008)
Gary Best, Charles Wesley: a Biography in Expository Times (October, 2007)
Emidio Campi, ed., Peter Martyr Vermigli, Humanismus, Republikanismus, und Reformation, in Sixteenth Century Journal (Summer, 2006)
Mickey Mattox, “Defender of the Most Holy Matriarchs.” Martin Luther’s Interpretation of the Women of Genesis in the Enarrationes in Genesin, 1535-1545, for H-German (H-Net, Spring, 2006)
Thomas Brockmann, Die Konzilsfrage in den Flug- und Streitschriften des deutschen Sprachraumes, 1518-1563, in Sixteenth Century Journal (Spring, 2001)
Thomas Kaufmann, Reformatoren, in Sixteenth Century Journal, (Summer, 2000)
Hellmut Zschoch, Reformatorische Existenz und konfessionelle Identität. Urbanus Rhegius als evangelischer Theologe in den Jahren 1520 bis 1530, in Sixteenth Century Journal (Summer, 1997)
Uwe Siemon-Netto, The Fabricated Luther: The Rise and Fall of the Shirer Myth, in Sixteenth Century Journal (Summer, 1996)
"Luthers Bedeutung für die Gestaltung der Kirche," Luther Congress Seminar Report, Lutherjahrbuch (1995), 221.
Günter Vogler, ed. Wegscheiden der Reformation. Alternatives Denken vom 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert, in Sixteenth Century Journal (Spring, 1995)
Scholarly Presentations “Topography of Knowledge: Geography and Cartography in the Wittenberg Reformation,” at Sixteenth Century Studies, Albuquerque, NM, Nov., 2018 5
“Kirchenordnungen as printed documents in 16th century Northern Germany,” International Congress on Luther Research, Wittenberg, Germany, August, 2017
“Whose ‘Holy Land’? The Contested Representation of Israel/ Palestine in Early Modern Cosmographies and Regional Maps” Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Reformation Era: Joint Conference Verein für Reformationsgeschichte and the Society for Reformation Research, Nuremberg, July, 2017
“A King, a Khan, and the Religious Iconography of Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina (1516)” Sixteenth Century Studies, Bruges, Belgium, August, 2016
“Norddeutsche Kirchenordnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts als Druckwerke,” Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, May, 2015
“The Urban ‘Landscape’ in Sixteenth Century North Germany,” Reformation Studies Institute, St Andrews University Scotland, October, 2014; and European Reformation Research Group, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, September, 2014
“Luther’s Beasts of Daniel: Maps and Images of Empire in the Middle Sixteenth Century,” International Luther Research Congress, Helsinki, Finland, August, 2012
Seminar Participant, “Luther and Educational Reforms” International Conference for Luther Research, Helsinki, August, 2012
Religious Studies Faculty Seminar participant, “German Church Complicity and the Holocaust,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, June, 2012
“African Christians, Christians visiting Africa: the Early Modern Narrative Cosmographies from Breydenbach to al-hassan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan [Leo Africanus]” at Kolloquium: “Die Begegnung mit Fremden in ihrer Bedeutung für das Geschichtsbewusstsein,” Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany, July, 2010
“Mapping Religious Diatribe: La Mappe-Monde Nouvelle Papistique (1566),” International Sixteenth Century Studies and Calvin Studies Conference, May, 2009
“Mapping Religious Hostilities: The Carta Marina of Martin Waldseemüller in Context,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2009
“Luther’s Beasts of Daniel: Maps and Images of Empire in the Middle Sixteenth Century,” Sixteenth Century Studies, St Louis, MO, October, 2008
“Narrating Religious Expansion: Text and Image on Medieval Mappaemundi and Early Modern World Maps,” International Conference on the History of Cartography, July, 2007, Berne, Switzerland
6 “Cartography as Religious Medium: the Shifting Iconography of Early 16th Century World Maps,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October, 2006, Salt Lake City, UT
“The ‘Flat Earth’ of the Tabula Peutingeriana: from Mediterranean World to the Atlantic Frontier,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA
“Die Bedeutung des Unterrichts der Visitatoren für die Neuordnung der Kirche in den Territorien, 1528-1545,” seminar presentation, Luthers Stellung zur Neuordnung der Kirche in den Territorien nach 1530, Luther Congress, 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark
“The London Church Order of John a Lasco,” Sixteenth Century Studies, October, 2001, Cleveland, Ohio
“The Dysfunctional Church Order of Herman von Wied,” St Andrews University, Reformation Studies Seminar, October, 2001, St Andrews, Scotland
“Creating Order in the American Wilderness: State Church Germans without the State,” Strangers to Citizens Conference: Integration of Immigrant Communities in Great Britain, Ireland and the Colonies, 1550-1750, Huguenot Society, London, England, April 5-7, 2000
Seminar participant in section “Luther and the Emergence of Lutheranism,” North American Luther Research Forum, August 2-5, 1999 at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN.
“The Uses of Cartography” workshop of the Atlantic History Seminar, Harvard University, April 24-25, 1999.
“From Visitation to Legislation and Back Again: The Role of the Kirchenordnungen” Society for Reformation Research sponsored section on Visitations, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Ontario, October, 1998
“Erhör uns, lieber Herr Gott: Public Litanies in a World of Print,” at the Second International Conference of the FNI (Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär), Duke University, April, 1998
"Luther, Melanchthon, and the Ordinances of the Church," seminar participant, "Luther's and Melanchthon's Concept of the Church," Ninth International Congress for Luther Research, Heidelberg, Germany, August, 1997
"Semper Reformanda: Antonius Corvinus and the Dynamic of Reform in the Braunschweig Duchies, 1539-1553" Sixteenth Century Studies, St. Louis, MO, October, 1996
"Muslims and Christians: Perception and Reception in Early Modern Germany," invited participant and acting chair of the session, "Ideas for Tolerance: Internal and Between Religions," International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August, 1996
"Praying against the Turk: the Persistence of a Liturgical Tradition" and session 7 organizer, "Perceptions of the Turkish Threat in Early Modern Germany," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Francisco, October, 1995
Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär, session chair, "Social History: Negotiating the Social Landscape," Duke University, April, 1995
"Defining the Territorial Church or Defying the Territorial Church: Protestant Church Ordinances as Synodal Statutes;" also, session chair and comment, "Trade and Tactics in East/ West Encounters," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, October, 1994
“Let the dead bury the dead: Christian Burial and Lutheran Understandings of Church Discipline," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, Dec. 1993
"Lutherrezeption in der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts," seminar participant, Eighth International Congress for Luther Research, St. Paul, MN, August 8-14, 1993
"The ‘Dysfunctional Family’ of North German Church Orders," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 24, 1992
“‘Da in der americanischen Wildnusz:’ Order, Authority and Church Discipline among ‘State Church’ German Immigrants in Pennsylvania, 1742-1776." German- American Studies Conference, Washington D.C., April, 1991
"Problems and Solutions in Teaching the Middle Ages to Undergraduates," Conference for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ohio State University, February, 1990
Church and Community Presentations (Selected) April, 2018, Reformation Radicals: Violence, non-violence, and social change in the cause of religion, Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Columbus, OH
November 1, 2017, “Was not Martin Luther an Extremist?” The Legacy of the Reformation in the Family of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., MTSO Theological Commons, lecture with Tejai Beulah
September-October, 2017, A World Divided: Considering the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, First Community Church, Columbus, OH
March, 2017, “From Tavern Tunes to Michael Praetorius: the Reformation and Music,” Broad Street Presbyterian Church
August, 2015, “Selma: the Movie, discussion and presentation,” Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Columbus, OH
May, 2013, “The First Francis: Francis and Clare of Assisi,” First Community Church, Columbus, OH 8
November, 2012, “The pilgrim’s way: traditions of travel and faith” St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Columbus, OH
January, 2012, “Women Reformers in the Medieval and Reformation Church,” Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Columbus, OH
April, 2011, “Thomas the Disciple and the other Gospel tradition,” Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Columbus, OH
September- October, 2009,”The Formation of the Bible,” Trinity United Methodist Church, Columbus, OH
September 15, 2009, “Revisiting Wisdom,” sermon for Scioto Valley Presbytery
March, 2009, “The Christian Way of Life: the Pilgrimage of Change,” in conjunction with Diana Butler Bass, Scioto Valley Presbytery Spring Fest, March, 2009
July, 2007, “Faith and Fantasy: From Literary Classics to the Big Screen,” Lakeside Conference Center/ Chautaqua, Lakeside, OH
February 21, 28, March 14, 2007,”The Reformed Heritage: Calvin and the Early Presbyterians,” Overbrook Presbyterian Church, Lenten Series, Columbus, OH
February 6, 13, 20, 2005, “Faith and Fantasy: Perspectives on Faith from C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling,” First Presbyterian Church, Delaware, OH; adult education
July 28-29, 2004, “Perspectives on the Church in the New Millennium: Awakened and Proclaiming,“ North Central Jurisdiction Convocation, Fellowship of United Methodists in Worship and the Liturgical Arts, Berea, OH
June, 2003, “The Many Faces of Biblical Interpretation: Texts on Homosexuality in the Traditions of the Church,” Workshop at the Shepherd Initiative, Columbus, OH
April, 2003, “A Lenten Pilgrimage to Peace,“ lecture at First Community Church, Columbus, OH
April, 2003, “Faith and Fantasy: the Spiritual Insights of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling,” Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Columbus Ohio (also at St John’s UCC, Columbus, April, 2002; Trinity UMC, Columbus, OH, January, 2002)
May, 2002, “The Missional Congregation,” Presentation to Plenary, Scioto Valley Presbytery
July 3-7, 2000, “Money Talks: Our Nation’s Religious Heritage on Coin and Currency,” Lakeside Conference Center, Lakeside, Ohio. 9
May 7, 14, 21, 2000 “Famous Figures in Reformed and Presbyterian History” First Presbyterian Church, Delaware, Ohio.
October 17 & 24, 1999, “Biblical and Historical Prespectives on the Year 2000" Worthington Presbyterian Church, Worthington, Ohio.
August 16-20, 1999, “Millennial Craze: Christian Responses to the Year 2000" Week long seminar series at Lakeside Conference Center, Lakeside, Ohio.
April 18, 1999, “Presbyterians and the Formula of Agreement” at Central College Presbyterian Church, Westerville, OH.
March 16, 1999, Pre-presbytery forum (Scioto Valley) on “Theological Education” at Dublin Presbyterian Church, Ohio.
July 6-10, 1998, “The Church with No Names? The Christian Faith in a New Era of Ecumenism” Lakeside Conference Center, Lakeside, Ohio.
March 1 & 8, 1998, “The Church and its Past: a Two Thousand Year Pilgrimage” Covenant Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio.
March 7, 1998, “Deacon’s Ministry to Youth” Joint Deacon’s Retreat, Old Stone and First Presbyterian Churches, Delaware, Ohio.
December 7, 14, 21, 1997, “Christmas Saints and Celebrations” Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Columbus, OH.
September 28, 1997, “The Great Ends of the Church,” Indianola Presbyterian Church, Columbus, OH.
March 9, 16, 1997, “Observing Lent: Medieval Perspectives for a Modern World,” First Presbyterian Church, Delaware, OH.
February 20, 1997, “Lent and the Traditions of John Wesley,” Powell United Methodist Church, Powell, OH.
October 27, 1996, "Religion and Politics: The Westminster Confession and `God alone is Lord of the Conscience,'" Worthington Presbyterian Church, Worthington, OH.
October 10, 1996, "Christians, Muslims and the Crisis in the Sudan: An Open Dialogue," Presbytery Peace-Making Forum led by Dr. Julia Aker Duany, and Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Jaynes, Covenant Presbyterian Church, Columbus, OH.
September- October, 1996 "What do Presbyterians Mean When They Talk About Reformed Theology," An eight week series at Boulevard Presbyterian Church, Columbus, OH. 10
January 7, 14, 21, 1996; "Christ United, the Church Divided: the Roots of Denominational Disorder," First Community Church, Columbus, OH.
July 3-7, 1995; "Founding Fathers? Facts, Fictions and Faith" series at Lakeside Conference Center, OH.
April 2, 1995; "The Question of Prayer and Our Public Schools," St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Gallion, OH.
March, 1995; "Observing Lent: Medieval Perspectives for a Modern World," Lenten Series, Overbrook Presbyterian Church, Columbus, OH.
January 29, 1995; "Prayer and Public Life," Anselm Institute leader, Bethel Presbyterian Church, Columbus, OH.
November 13, 1994; "The Question of Prayer and our Public Schools," Epworth United Methodist Church, Marion OH.
August 2-6, 1993; "Cultures, Conflicts, and Christian Expansion," Peace Week Seminar, Lakeside United Methodist Conference Center, Lakeside, OH.
October, 1992; "Centennial Series: Christopher Columbus: Saint or Satan? The Five Hundred Year Anniversary of the Voyages of Columbus; and Three Hundred Year Anniversary of the Salem Witchcraft Trials," First Community Church, Columbus, OH.
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