Deanna Ringler
Lutheran Doctrine 2 Honors Project: "Defining the Free in Free Will in Article II of the Formula of Concord"
Jordon Staudenheimer
Lutheran Doctrine 2 Honors Project: "Poverty and Riches: The Formula of Concord Article Five for the Homeless"
Rebecca Pumphrey
Senior Thesis in Theology: Augustine on Dynamic Trinitarian Faith
Jakob Nath
Lutheran Doctrine 2 Honors Project: "ἱλαστήριον in the Lutheran Confessions"
Receipient of the 2026 Lange Research Award for the Paper: "Temporal, Spatial, or Semitic? Resolving The Ambiguity of Ἄνωθεν in John 3:3"
Caleb Sutcliffe
Senior Thesis in Theology: Nicholas of Cusa and Martin Luther on Christology
Aidan Swain
Cole Woods
Honors trip to the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library and St. John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, MN, Spring semester, 2026.
Theology and Ministry Departmental Honors Students at Concordia University, St. Paul demonstrate the qualities of intellectual humility, academic excellence, and Christian service, maintain a 3.5 GPA, pursue additional research projects in selected classes, and write a senior thesis in their majors.
For more information or to apply to the Fall 2026 cohort of the Departmental Honors Program, please email Rev. Dr. Joshua Hollmann, Departmental Honors Program Director: hollmann@csp.edu.
(The Departmental Honors in Theology and Ministry commenced in the Spring 2026 semester.)