H. Ashley Hall, PhD

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

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Contact

H.Hall@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Ministry (Master of Arts)
Graduate School
Theology
DHHC - Dowling Hall/Humanities Center - 135

H. Ashley Hall, PhD

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

H. Ashley Hall specializes in the reception of patristic (i.e., early Christian) sources in the Reformation of the sixteenth century. His primary area of research is on Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), an exemplary Lutheran theologian, philologist, and pedagogue. Dr. Hall's book, Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians: A Reception of Greek Patristic Sources in the Sixteenth Century (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014) presents a detailed study of his interests. He is also the co-author (with Prof. Man Hei Yip) of the Nicaea Study Guide for the Ev. Lutheran Church in America. 
Starting in 2026, Dr. Hall serves on the Board of Trustees of the Lutheran Foundation for Interconfessional Research (Institute for Ecumenical Research, Strasbourg, France). He previously served as a delegate in Round XII of the official dialogue between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The results of that dialogue have been published, Faithful Teaching: Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue XII, Lowell G. Almen and Denis J. Madden, eds. (Fortress Press, 2023). 
In the spring of 2019, Hall received a DAAD Research Fellowship (German Academic Exchange Service) for research at the Reformation History Research Library, Wittenberg, Germany. In the Easter Term of 2018, Hall was a Visiting Fellow of the Divinity Faculty at the University of Cambridge; concurrent Visiting Bye-Fellow at Selwyn College. From 2004-2005, Dr. Hall was a Research Fellow at the Institute for European History, Mainz, Germany.
Dr. Hall is a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, serving in the Nebraska Synod. He is under call at Kountze Memorial Lutheran Church.

Research Focus

The Reformation and Early Modern period (Philip Melanchthon; Martin Luther, the reception of patristic and classical sources in the sixteenth century); monasticism; liturgy; historical and contemporary ecumenical dialogue.

Department

Theology

Position

Associate Professor

Books

  • Hall H. Ashley, THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF EARLY MODERN THEOLOGY, 1600–1800 Edited by Ulrich Lehner, Richard Muller, and A. G. Roeber New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii + 668 pgs. $150.00 2021
  • Hall H, Rooted and Renewing: Imagining the Church’s Future in Light of Its New Testament Origins by Troy M. Troftgruben (review) 2021
  • The Survival of Dulles
    Hall H. Ashley, Avery Dulles on Luther and Lutheranism [Book Chapter] 2021
  • Canaris Michael M, etal The Survival of Dulles 2021
  • Hall H, Martyrdom and the Suffering of the Righteous ed. by Paul R. Hinlicky and R. David Nelson (review) 2019
  • Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics
    Hall H. Ashley, The Cappadocian Fathers [Book Chapter] 2015
  • Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians
    Hall H. Ashley, Melanchthon and Greek Patristic Sources [Book Chapter] 2014
  • Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians
    Hall H. Ashley, Melanchthon’s Understanding of Patristic Authority [Book Chapter] 2014
  • Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians
    Hall H. Ashley, Use of the Cappadocians against Roman Catholic Arguments [Book Chapter] 2014
  • Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians
    Hall H. Ashley, Introduction [Book Chapter] 2014
  • Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians
    Hall H. Ashley, Appendix: The Reception of Cappadocian Texts in the Sixteenth Century [Book Chapter] 2014
  • Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians
    Hall H. Ashley, Body [Book Chapter] 2014
  • Hall H. Ashley, Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians 2014
  • Hall H, Reviews -- Aspasie. Comedie. (Textes litteraires francais, 417) written by Jean Desmarets (de Saint-Sorlin) and edited by Philip Tomlinson 1993
  • Hall H, Marilyn L. Williamson, 'Infinite Variety: Antony and Cleopatra in Renaissance Drama and Earlier Tradition' (Book Review) 1978

Publications

  • Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society
    Hall H. Ashley, Protestant Responses to Roman Catholic Environmental Thought
    9, p. 94 - 106 2013
  • Pro ecclesia (Northfield, Minn.)
    Hall H. Ashley, The Development of Doctrine: A Lutheran Examination
    16:3, p. 256 - 277 2007
  • Journal - New York State Bar Association
    Hall H, Freedom Of Worship: State And Federal Guarantees
    63:6, p. 18 1991
  • Hall H, SPEAKING OF FAITH, CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN, RELIGION AND SOCIAL-CHANGE - ECK,DL, JAIN,D, EDITOR 1988
  • The Saint Luke's journal of theology
    Hall H, Protoplast (poem)
    22:3, p. 164 1979
  • Hall H, BEYOND INGARDENS IDEALISM-REALISM CONTROVERSY WITH HUSSERL - NEW CONTEXTUAL PHASE OF PHENOMENOLOGY - TYMIENIECKA,AT 1978
  • Year's Work in Modern Language Studies
    Hall H, etal French studies. The seventeenth century
    38, p. 87 - 119 1976