Kirsi Irmeli Stjerna

Rev. Dr. Kirsi Stjerna, First Lutheran, Los Angeles/Southwest Synod Professor of Lutheran History and Theology, Chair, at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Lutheran University. Author of "Women and the Reformation" and "Reformaation Naisia". Co-author of "Martin Luther, the Bible and the Jewish People" with Rev. Dr. Brooks Schramm. Translator/Editor of Rev. Dr. Tuomo Mannermaa's "Christ Present in Faith" and "Two Kinds of Love". Translator of Rev. Dr. Martti Nissinen's "Homoeroticism in the Biblical World." Co-editor of "Apocalyptic and Human Agency: Conversations with Augustine of Hippo and Martin Luther," with Dr. Deanna A. Thompson. General Editor, with Dr. Hans Hillerbrand and Rev Dr. Timothy Wengert, of "The Annotated Luther", and Volume 2 editor, "Word and Faith", forthcoming September 2015.