Dr J.D.H. Hollmann (Joshua)

Rev. Dr. Joshua Hollmann is Professor of Systematic Theology at Concordia University, St. Paul where he has taught since 2021. Previously, Dr. Hollmann was theology faculty (2013-2021) and chair of the theology department (2014-2021) at Concordia College, New York. In 2014, Dr. Hollmann earned his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Religious Studies of McGill University. He also studied at Hangzhou University and the University of Cambridge. He is author of The Religious Concordance: Nicholas of Cusa and Christian-Muslim Dialogue (Brill, 2017), editor of Nicholas of Cusa and the Making of the Early Modern World (Brill, 2019), and Mystical Theology and Platonism in the Time of Cusanus (Brill, 2023), as well as presently researching and writing books on Nicholas of Cusa, Teresa of Avila, and popular culture and theology. In addition, he has published numerous articles and chapters in books, as well as the entry on Nicholas of Cusa for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (De Gruyter), and presented at many international academic conferences. Dr. Hollmann has lectured and taught at universities and seminaries in India, Sudan, Canada, Turkey, Haiti, and the Philippines. He has led student-learning-service trips to Oman, Nicaragua, the Philippines, and Quebec. He is also the recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Doctoral Research Fellowship and other awards, notably, Concordia College, New York’s Nehemiah Award for Service (2019). Rev. Dr. Hollmann was campus chaplain of Concordia College New York (2014-2017). He was associate pastor at Ascension Lutheran Church, a multicultural Lutheran congregation in Montreal (2005-2009), and from 2009-2021 served as sole pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in New York City (Woodside, Queens). He was also Vice President of the Atlantic District of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod for metro New York (2015-2021).