Speaker's Curriculum

Christopher Ocker

Christopher Ocker is a Professor of Church History at San Francisco Theological Seminary, a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty of the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture. He holds degrees of Ph.D. and Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary. His research interests cover the history of Christianity, late Medieval Germany, and the history of the Reformation.

Selected Publications

° Ocker, Christopher. Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformaion. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
° ________. Johannes Klenkok: A Friar's Life, c. 1310-1374. Volume 83, part 5 of the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1993.
° ________. "Religious Authority and the Economy of Privilege in Late Medieval Germany," in The Growth of Authority in the Medieval West, eds. M. Gossman et al, 97-118. Groningen, 1999.