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B.A. Carleton College
M.Div. Yale Divinity School
Th.D. Harvard Divinity School
Biography
Barbara R. Rossing is professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, where she has taught since 1994.
Ordained in 1982, she served as pastor of a congregation in Minnesota, director for Global Mission Interpretation for the American Lutheran Church, pastor at Holden Village Retreat Center, Chelan, Wash., and chaplain at Harvard University Divinity School.
Rossing has lectured and preached widely, including synod assemblies and global mission events for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), as well as ecumenical theological conferences. She serves on the executive committee and council of the Lutheran World Federation, where she also chairs the Lutheran World Federation's theology and studies committee.
Her publications include The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (Basic Books, 2004), a critique of fundamentalist “Left Behind” theology; The Choice Between Two Cities: Whore, Bride and Empire in the Apocalypse (Trinity Press, 1999); two volumes of the New Proclamation commentary for preachers (Fortress Press, 2000 and 2004) and articles and book chapters on the Apocalypse and ecology.
An avid environmentalist, Rossing is involved with environmental initiatives at the seminary. Rossing received the bachelor of arts degree from Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., the master of divinity degree from Yale University Divinity School and the doctor of theology degree from Harvard University.
Areas of Expertise
Topics that Dr. Rossing is available to address at
adult forums and other congregational events
Apocalypse
Archaeology
Bible
Church and Society
Ecology
Homosexuality
New Testament
Peace and Justice
Revelation
Scripture
Sexuality
Middle East
Titled Presentations
Apocalypse Now: Revelation So No One is “Left Behind”
Published Works
Books
The Rapture Exposed. (Paperback) New York, New York: Basic Books, 2005.
New Proclamation Series A: Easter (Minneapolis:
Fortress, 2004) 1-76
The Rapture Exposed. Boulder,
CO: Westview Press, 2004. [download more information (pdf)]
New Proclamation Series C: Easter. Minneapolis:
Fortress, 2000. Pp. 1-71.
The Choice Between Two Cities: Whore, Bride, and Empire
in the Apocalypse. Harvard Theological Studies; Harrisburg,
PA: Trinity Press International, 1999.
Articles and Chapters in Books
"Prophets, Prophetic Movements and the Voices of Women" in A Peoples History of Christianity (Fortress Press 2005)
“Democracy, not Armageddon: Response to Yehezkel
Landau,” Conversations in Religion and Theology
3/1
(Spring 2005)
“For the Healing of the World: Reading Revelation
Ecologically” in David Rhoads, ed., From Every
Tribe,
Tongue, People, and Nation: The Book of Revelation in Intercultural
Perspective (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005)
“Understanding Biblical Urgency: Debunking Left-Behind
Theology,” Lutheran Woman Today, December
2004.
“Up for Discussion: The Left Behind Novels,” co-authored with Ann Hafften (Downloadable study guide,
Augsburg Fortress, 2004)
“(Re)Claiming Oikoumene? Empire, Ecumenism and the
Discipleship of Equals” in Shelly Matthews, Cynthia
Briggs Kittredge and Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, eds., Walk
In the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity
Press International, 2003) 74-87.
Lutheran World Federation Tenth Assembly Bible studies,
in Karen Bloomquist, ed., For the Healing of the
World (studies on Revelation 22; Revelation 7; Revelation
21; Ephesians 2; Romans 8; Geneva: 2002)
Foreword: A Biblical Reflection, Envisioning a Lutheran
Communion: Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century,
Mark Thomsen and Vitor Westhelle, eds. (Minneapolis: Kirk
House, 2002) 8-11
“For the Healing of the World,” Holden Village
News, Summer 2003
“Alas for the Earth: Lament and Resistance in Revelation
12” in Norman Habel and Shirley Wurst, eds., The
Earth Story in the New Testament (The Earth Bible,
vol. 5; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002) 180-92
“The Hope of Resurrection,” Lutheran Woman
Today April 2001
"River of Life in God’s New Jerusalem: An Eschatological
Vision for Earth’s Future.” In Christianity
and Ecology, ed. Rosemary Ruether and Dieter Hessel.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press Center for World Religions,
1999. Pp. 205-224. reprinted in Mission Studies
16/1 (1999) 136-156.
"No One Is Left Behind.” Lutheran Woman
Today. (December 1999) 14-15.
"Standing at the Door of a New Millennium: Economy,
Eschatology, and Hope.” Dialog (Fall 1998).
"River of Life in God’s New Jerusalem: An Ecological
and Eschatological Vision for Earth’s Future.”
Currents in Theology and Mission, 25/6 (1998) 487-99.
"For Such a Time as This: The Millennial Moment.”
Lutheran Woman Today, (January 1999).
"Models of Koinonia in the New Testament and Early
Church.” In The Church as Communion, ed.
Heinrich Holze. Geneva: Lutheran World Federation documentation
42, 1997. Pp. 60-80.
"Glimpsing the Koinonia of the Holy Spirit.”
Lutheran Woman Today (May 1997) 10-13.
"Are You Able to Drink the Cup? Grape Juice at Holy
Communion.” Currents in Theology and Mission
24/3, (1997) 267-72.
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