Vocation of Lutheran Higher Education

What is the vocation of Lutheran higher education--especially now that it is not only or primarily education for and by Lutherans? Over the past several decades, this question has lead to a new concerted effort to retrieve and redefine what it means to be a college of the church.

Jason A. Mahn is the Conrad Bergendoff Chair in the Humanities and the director of the Presidential Center for Faith and Learning at Augustana College (Illinois). After completing his PhD at Emory University, Mahn taught writing and religion at Duke University before coming to Augustana, where he teaches courses in theology and contemporary religious belief. He is the author of Fortunate Fallibility: Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin (2011) and Becoming a Christian in Christendom (2016).