Karin Maag
- Karin Maag
- Director, H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies; Professor, History department
Karin Maag is the director of the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies at Calvin College, one of the world's foremost collections of works on or by John Calvin. She is also a member of Calvin's History department, having begun her work at Calvin in 1997. She obtained her PhD from the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland and is the author, editor, or translator of nine books including Seminary or University? The Genevan Academy and Reformed Higher Education, 1560-1620; Worship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Change and Continuity; and most recently Lifting Hearts to the Lord: Worship with John Calvin in Sixteenth-Century Geneva. She has obtained five major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to direct summer seminars and institutes at Calvin College. The most recent of these, "Teaching the Reformation after 500 Years," brought 25 faculty and graduate students from across the United States to Calvin College for an intensive three-week institute in July 2016.
Presentations at Calvin University
500 Years Later: Why the Reformation Still MattersPart of the: January Series
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 12:30:00 PM
Covenant Fine Arts Center Auditorium
Underwritten by: I.C.N. Foundation
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Education
PhD, University of Saint Andrews, Scotland
Selected Publications
Seminary or University? The Genevan Academy and Reformed Higher Education, 1560-1620 (Aldershot:Ashgate, 1994)
Worship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Change and Continuity (co-edited with John Witvliet) (Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004)
Lifting Hearts to the Lord: Worship with John Calvin in Sixteenth Century Geneva (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 2016)