Author: Jeffrey K. Mann

Jeffrey K. Mann is Professor and Department Head of Religious Studies at Susquehanna University, in Selinsgrove, PA. His research has focused both on Lutheran theology and the ethics of violence. His most recent book is May I Kill? Just War, Non-Violence, and Civilian Self-Defense (Wipf & Stock).

Empathizing with History’s Worst Is Hard. But a Quality Education Was Never Meant to Be Easy

When I arrived at Vanderbilt Divinity School in 1994, I enrolled in a class that caught my eye: “Theology and the Nazi State,” taught by Jack Forstman. Given my family’s hasty departure from the Third Reich in the late 1930s, and my own interest in theology, I was intrigued. The course turned out to be […]

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