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Ronald K. Rittgers

Professor of the History of Christianity
Divinity School
0040C Langford Building, Duke Divinity School, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Reformation Heritage Lectures · October 28, 2025 - October 30, 2025 Keynote/Named Lecture Beeson Divinity School,
Book panel organizer and participant: “Carlos Eire, They Flew: A History of the Impossible (Yale 2023)" - American Society of Church History Annual Meeting · January 3, 2025 - January 6, 2025 International Meeting or Conference Chicago
“A Humanist’s Lament: Johann Christoph Oelhafen’s Pious Meditations on the, Alas, Most Sorrowful Bereavement (1619)" · October 31, 2024 - December 1, 2024 International Meeting or Conference The Sixteenth Century Society Annual Meeting, Toronto
“A Holy Invitation to a Holy Individuality" - Ash Wednesday Homily, Goodson Chapel · February 14, 2024 - February 14, 2024 Invited Talk Duke Divinity School,
“‘Train up a child in the way he should go’: Reflections on Fatherhood and Domestic Devotion" · January 2024 - January 2024 Invited Talk All Saints Anglican Church, Durham, NC
Reformation Heritage Lectures · October 28, 2025 - October 30, 2025 Keynote/Named Lecture Beeson Divinity School,
Book panel organizer and participant: “Carlos Eire, They Flew: A History of the Impossible (Yale 2023)" - American Society of Church History Annual Meeting · January 3, 2025 - January 6, 2025 International Meeting or Conference Chicago
“A Humanist’s Lament: Johann Christoph Oelhafen’s Pious Meditations on the, Alas, Most Sorrowful Bereavement (1619)" · October 31, 2024 - December 1, 2024 International Meeting or Conference The Sixteenth Century Society Annual Meeting, Toronto
“A Holy Invitation to a Holy Individuality" - Ash Wednesday Homily, Goodson Chapel · February 14, 2024 - February 14, 2024 Invited Talk Duke Divinity School,
“‘Train up a child in the way he should go’: Reflections on Fatherhood and Domestic Devotion" · January 2024 - January 2024 Invited Talk All Saints Anglican Church, Durham, NC
“Faith and Scholarship" - Duke Center for Christianity and Scholarship Graduate Fellows Program Retreat · January 2024 - January 2024 Invited Talk
An Unexpected Path to Duke: Reflections on a Journey of Faith and Scholarship" · January 2024 - January 2024 Invited Talk Duke Graduate Christian Fellowship,
“A Widower’s Lament: Lay Theology of the Cross from the Late Reformation" - “Let’s Talk Luther Adult Forum" · November 2023 - November 2023 Invited Talk Christ the King Lutheran Church, Cary, NC
“Scripture as ‘Sacrament’" - Interlude · October 2023 - October 2023 Invited Talk All Saints Anglican Church, Durham, NC
“Scripture as ‘Sacrament’ in Early Modern Evangelical Church Ordinances" - The Sixteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting · October 2023 - October 2023 International Meeting or Conference Baltimore
“A Liturgy of Lament for a Broken House-Church: The Pious Meditations (1619) of Johann Christoph Oelhafen" - Society for Reformation Studies Annual Conference · April 2023 - April 2023 Keynote/Named Lecture Cambridge University, Westminster College