Mickey Leland Mattox

Mickey L. Mattox is Flack Family Foundation Chair & Professor of Theology at Hillsdale College. He previously served as Professor of Theology at Marquette University, where he specialized in studies of the great Reformer Martin Luther. His PhD Degree is from Duke University, where he studied with David Steinmetz. Previous to Marquette, Mattox was Research Professor in the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France, where he worked as a theological consultant for the Lutheran ecumenical dialogues. In 2005 Mattox was received into full ecclesiastical communion in the Roman Catholic Church.

Mattox has a new book currently in press at Cascade Books. The Ends of a Christian Marriage: A Theological Memoir of Love and Bereavement will be available in early 2027. The book offers a theology of marriage based on the author's own lived experience of a marriage of 46 years, which ended with his wife's death from cancer in 2025.