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Brian Beckstrom

Brian Beckstrom

Rev., Campus Pastor and Adjunct Instructor

Wartburg College

Rev. Brian A.F. Beckstrom has served as Campus Pastor and adjunct instructor at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa since 2006. He is currently completing his Doctor of Ministry degree through Luther Seminary, focusing on the religious identity and mission of ELCA colleges in the twenty-first century. He has written for the Journal of Lutheran Ethics and the ELCA’s Living Lutheran website.

Published Articles

Article

Reforming Lutheran Higher Education: Ecclesiological Reflection and Theological Leadership

Brian Beckstrom

No. 46 · Fall 2017

Beckstrom diagnoses an “identity crisis” at ELCA colleges and universities rooted in inherited Enlightenment assumptions and a thin functional ecclesiology, and proposes that a Trinitarian, perichoretic understanding of God offers an ecclesiological foundation that holds together unity and diversity in a pluralistic, post-Christian context.

Brian Beckstrom

Published Articles

Reforming Lutheran Higher Education: Ecclesiological Reflection and Theological Leadership