H. Ashley Hall, PhD

Chair, Theology

Associate Professor

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Contact

H.Hall@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Ministry (Master of Arts)
Graduate School
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H. Ashley Hall, PhD

Chair, Theology

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.

Teaching Interests

  • Reformation; Early Christianity; Ecumenism

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

  • Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht
    Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians: A Reception of Greek Patristic Sources in the Sixteenth Century. Refo500 Academic Studies 2014
  • Peeters
    “The Lutheran Reformation and the Normativity of History,” The Shaping of Tradition: Context and Normativity, Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia: Proceedings of the Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology (LEST) VIII, ed. Colby Dickinson , p. 201-14 2013

Articles

  • The Lutheran Reformation and the Normativity of History,' The Shaping of Tradition: Context and Normativity. Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia: Proceedings of the Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology (LEST) VIII. Ed. Colby Dickinson (Leuven: Peeters, 2013), 201-214. , p. 201-214 2013

Publications

  • Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht
    Article/Seminar report: “sola Scriptura” (co-authored with Prof. Friederike Nüssel, Heidelberg University, Germany) seminar report of the Luther Congress (Helsinki); Luther als Lehrer und Reformer der Universität: Lutherjahrbuch. Christopher Spehr
    80, p. 293-97 2013
  • Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series
    “Protestant Responses to Roman Catholic Environmental Thought,” The Greening of the Papacy, Online: www.creighton.edu/jrs.
    Series 9 2013

Presentations

  • "The Teaching Authority of University Theologians in the Lutheran Tradition," Sixth Session, U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue. 2014
  • Invited participant and North American delegate, "Teaching Luther for Lutheran Teachers," 6th International Seminar of the Wittenberg Center (LWF-Wittenberg Center, Germany) and the Center for Ecumenical Research (Strasbourg, France) 2012
  • Invited Speaker on "Ecumenism" for the Legacy of the Second Vatican Council Film Series sponsored by the Kenefick Chair for the Humanities 2012
  • Participant and recorder, Seminar 25, Sola Scriptura, of the 12th International Luther Congress (Helsinki, Finland) 2012
  • "Melanchthon and Teaching Authority," U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue: Round XII, Session 2; Chicago, IL (24-27 May) 2012
  • Invited Speaker/Guest, "Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue," Center for Catholic Thought at Creighton (podcast; cucatholicctr.org) 2012
  • "The Normativity of History in the Lutheran Tradition," Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology (LEST) VIII; University of Leuven, Belgium 2011
  • "A Summary Review of The Gospel and the Church (1972) and Scripture and Tradition (1995) for Elements Related to Teaching Authority," U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue: Round XII, Session 1; Washington, D.C. 2011

Other

  • DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

  • Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge