Education
B.A., Oberlin College
M.S.L.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., Emory University
Ph.D., Emory University
Biography
Christine Wenderoth joined the faculty of the Lutheran
School of Theology at Chicago in 2004 as Director of the
JKM Library. She also serves as associate professor of ministry.
The JKM Library houses one of the largest theological collections
in the United States and is owned and operated jointly by
McCormick Theological Seminary and the Lutheran School of
Theology at Chicago.
Wenderoth graduated from Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
in 1971, and received her Master of Science in Library Science
(M.S.L.S) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill in 1973. She completed her M.A. in Theological Studies
at Emory University, Atlanta, in 1978, and received her
Ph.D. in Theological Studies from that same university in
1982.
Following her ordination in 1994 as Minister of Word and
Sacrament by the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta, Wenderoth
served for ten years as Director of the Ambrose Swasey Library
and assistant professor of ministry at the Colgate Rochester
Crozer Divinity School, Rochester, NY. During that time,
she also served as parish associate at New Life Presbyterian
Church, and as an active member of several committees of
the Genesee Valley Presbytery. Prior to this, she served
on the faculty and staff of Columbia Theological Seminary
in Decatur, Georgia.
Wenderoth’s teaching, administration and research
interests include the role of gender in administration and
leadership, disordered eating and its relation to gender
and sacrament, the impact of technology on community, librarianship
as ministry and instruction, and teaching, learning and
research as it occurs outside the classroom. She has served
as an advisor to the National Leadership Team for American
Baptist Girls, and serves on the editorial board of the
Journal of Religious and Theological Information. She has
twice served as a member of the Association of Theological
Schools Accreditation Visiting Teams.
An active member of the American Theological Library Association
since 1982, Wenderoth currently serves as its vice-president.
Her work has been published in a wide range of publications
including Religious Studies Review, Religious Education,
Encounter, Pastoral Psychology, and the Dictionary of Pastoral
Care and Counseling
Profile
Christine Wenderoth is director of the JKM Library at the
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and McCormick Theological
Seminary and associate professor of ministry. Wenderoth
was director of the Ambrose Swasey Library and assistant
professor of ministry at the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity
School, Rochester, N.Y. for the ten years prior to her appointment
at LSTC. She is a graduate of Oberlin College; the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Emory University, where
she completed both the M.A. and Ph.D. in theological studies.
Wenderoth is ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament
in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. and has served as a parish
associate in and on committees of the Genesee Valley Presbytery.
Wenderoth currently serves as vice president of the American
Theological Library Association. Her work has been published
in Religious Studies Review, Religious Education, Encounter,
Pastoral Psychology, and the Dictionary of Pastoral Care
and Counseling, as well as other publications.
Published
Works
Review of Dimensions of Forgiveness, Ed. by Everett
Worthington, in Religious Studies Review [in press].
Review of In Her Own Time, by Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner,
in Religious Studies Review, vol. 27, no. 2 (April
2001): 148-149.
Review of I Don’t Want to Talk About It,
by Terrence Real, in Rahab’s Wall.
Review of Weaving the New Creation, by James W.
Fowler, and Stages of Faith and Religious Development,
by J. Fowler, K. Nipkow, and F. Schweitzer, in Religious
Education, vol. 89, no.1 (Winter 1994).
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