Religion

Thomas Long

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Heritage Studies

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, has taught the foundational religion course "Understandings of Religion," upper level courses in the history of Christian thought and church history, and the Heritage II and III courses, "Communities and Cultures: The Ideal and the Reality" and "Cultural Ineractions". Mr. Long's special interests are in the fields of inter-religious dialogue and the doctrine of the atonement. He has earned degrees from Albion College (B.A.,1968), Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (M.Div.,1974), Duke University (Th.M., 1992), and Marquette University (Ph.D.,1999). His dissertation, "The Viability of Sacrificial Theology of Atonement" was recently republished under the auspices of Lutheran University Press for its 37 affiliate institutions of higher education of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Tom lives with his wife Carol in Wauwatosa, Wis.