Mark A. Lamport
American professor
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Mark A. Lamport (born November 23, 1955) is an author, editor, and academic. For forty years, he has been a professor of practical theology at graduate schools in the United States and Europe.[1][2][3] He is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Christian Education which was the award winner of the Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books, 2016, and the author of over 200 publications.[4][5] He is coeditor of Encyclopedia of Christianity and the Global South, Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States and the Encyclopedia of Christian Education.[2]
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| Born | November 23, 1955 |
| Education | Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Theology, Master of Divinity, Master of Arts |
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| Occupation | Religious studies scholar, university teacher, theologian, editor |
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Life
Education
Lamport holds a Ph.D. from the Michigan State University,[1] a Th.M. from the Princeton Theological Seminary, a M.Div from the Evangelical Theological Seminary, a M.A. from the Wheaton College Graduate School, and a B.A. from Huntingdon College.[5][6]
Teaching
He has been a professor at graduate schools in Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Virginia, Belgium, England, Portugal, Wales[5] and the Netherlands. He also has been a lecturer at academic institutions in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe.[5]
Selected works
- Kurian, George Thomas; Lamport, Mark A., eds. (2015). Encyclopedia of Christian education. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810884939. OCLC 908763127.
- Kurian, George Thomas; Lamport, Mark A., eds. (2016). The encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442244320. OCLC 954134417.
- Lamport, Mark A.; Marty, Martin E., eds. (2017). Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442271593. OCLC 983786463.
- Lamport, Mark A., ed. (2018). Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442271562. OCLC 1005687259.
- Lamport, Mark A., Forrest, Benjamin K., and Whaley, Vernon, eds. (2019) Hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions. Eugene, OR: Cascade. ISBN 978-1-4982-9982-4
- Edie, Fred P. and Lamport, Mark A. (2021) Nurturing Faith: a Practical Theology for Educating Christians. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-7556-3.
- Lamport, Mark A., ed. (2022) The Rowman & Littlefield handbook of philosophy and religion. Lanham, MD: Rowman & LIttlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-4127-4
- Barreto, Raimundo and Lamport, Mark A. (2023) Engaging Coloniality: The Liberative Story of Christianity in Latin America. Eugene, OR:Cascade Books. ISBN 978-1-6667-2098-3
- Yong, Amos; Lamport, Mark A.; Lim, Timothy T. N., eds. (2023). Uncovering the Pearl: The Hidden Story of Christianity in Asia. The Global Story of Christianity. Vol. 2. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 9781666720884.