Faculty
Mark S. Burrows
Professor of the History of Christianity
B.A., Lawrence University of Wisconsin
M.Div., Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary
Phone: Ext. 2369
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Biography:
Mark Burrows joined the faculty of Andover Newton Theological School in 1993, where he is currently Professor of the History of Christianity and director of the program in Worship, Theology, and The Arts. Author and editor of numerous books and more than fifty articles, poet, and regular essayist for Weavings, Burrows’ writings explore a range of topics related to medieval mysticism, aesthetics, poetics, and contemporary culture.
He is a recent Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology (2007 – 2008), and during this grant period he completed work on a forthcoming book, Untamed Wisdom. Mysticism and Poetry in Search of God, as well as his first collection of poems, To Sing the World (2011). Past president of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality (2003) and current poetry editor of Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, Burrows serves on the governing board of the Society for the Arts in Theological and Religious Studies and the boards of various journals and professional societies. He is also an oblate at Glastonbury Abbey in Hingham, MA, where he frequently teaches and leads retreats. In the spring of 2009, he co-founded an emergent worship gathering in Framingham called OpenSpirit (http://www.comeopenspirit.org). This summer he will be lecturing in Germany, Australia, and Hong Kong as well as teaching at Holden Village in the Cascade Mountains of Washington state.
Courses: HIST/WOTA 731F: Untamed Wisdom and the Search for God in Poetry and Mysticism, HIST 609: Introduction to the History of Christianity I, HIST 609F: Introduction to the History of Christianity I, HIST 609 : Introduction to the History of Christianity I, HIST 610S: Topics in the History of Christianity I, HIST 610: Topics in the History of Christianity, HIST 631W: Pastoral Ecumenics: A Basic Introduction, HIST 711W: Reading in Retreat: Monastic Theology of the Early Cistercians, HIST 711W: Reading in Retreat: Monastic Theology of the Early Cistercians, HIST 711: Reading in Retreat: Monastic Theology of the Early Cistercians, WOTA/CMWO 715J : Summer Institute in Arts and Worship: "Arts and the Sensual in Renewing Worship" featuring Don Saliers, WOTA 714a: Institute for Arts and Worship: "God Surprising" featuring John Bell, WOTA 740/840: The Singing Word: Poetry and the Religious Imagination, WOTA 773/873F: Three Modernist Poets and Their Legacy: Rilke, Eliot, and Stevens,
Publications:
Bernard of Clairvaux: On Loving God
The Hardest Love We Carry
Wilson Chapel: A New Meetinghouse for a School ‘Set on a Hill’
Reviving Election Day Sermons
Die Laterne der Barmherzigkeit
Complexity, Failure, and Hope in Interreligious Relationships
Vigils and the Rest
God is a Word Unspoken: Reading Bernard McGinn’s The Flowering of Medieval Mysticism
Julian of Norwich Jean Gerson
Allegorical Reading and Monastic Body-Building: Bernard of Clairvaux on the Song of Songs
Eine andere Welt ist möglich
There’s a Thread You Follow.
Another World Is Possible
Jesus Goes to the Yard Sales
Peering into the Abyss
Julian’s “All” and the Politics of Paradise
Dismantling the Da Vinci Code
Minding the Spirit
The Love Shaped in Weakness
The Songs of Songs
The Body of the Text
Raiding the Inarticulate
The Imaginative Spririt
