Mark Burrows grew up in Wisconsin, graduating from Lawrence University in Wisconsin before completing graduate studies at the Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany) and Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div. and Ph.D.). He joined the faculty of Andover Newton Theological School in 1993, where he is currently Professor of the History of Christianity. Prior to this appointment, he was a member of the faculty of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC; and, in 2007, he served as guest professor at the Kirchliche Hochschule in Wuppertal, Germany, the successor school to the seminary of the Confessing Church in Barmen. During the current academic year he is the recipient of a Luce Fellowship in Theology, completing work on a book tentatively entitled The Advent of Theology: Poetics, Mysticism, and the Grammar of Desire, a work which explores the poetic depths of religious life and theological reflection by drawing classical Christian traditions of mystical theology into conversation with modern poetry and the arts. A member of the board of the Society for the Arts in Theological and Religious Studies, he also directs the program in Worship, Theology, and the Arts at Andover Newton. Dr. Burrows is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, representing the denomination as chair of the national “Working Group” for the UCC’s full-communion partnership (Kirchengemeinschaft) with the “UEK” (the “Union of Uniting Churches” of Germany). In addition to his professional interests, Burrows is a practicing poet and an avid mountain hiker, two not always unrelated joys.