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Tom Troeger

Thomas H. Troeger, J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz Professor of Christian Communication at Yale Divinity School, Yale University.

 

Professor Troeger has written twenty books in the fields of preaching, poetry, hymnody and worship and is a frequent contributor to journals dedicated to these topics.
His most recent books include God, You Made All Things for Singing: Hymn texts, anthems, and poems for a new millennium, So that All Might Know: Preaching that Engages the Whole Congregation, Preaching and Worship, Preaching While the Church Is Under Reconstruction, and Above the Moon Earth Rises: Hymn Texts, Anthems and Poems for a New Creation.

He is also a flutist and a poet whose work appears in the hymnals of most denominations and is frequently set as choral anthems. For three years Professor Troeger hosted the Season of Worship broadcast for Cokesbury, and he has led conferences and lectureships in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa.  Ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and in the Episcopal Church in 1999, he is dually aligned with both traditions.  He is a former president of the Academy of Homiletics and currently serves as co-President of Societas Homiletica (the international guild of scholars in homiletics), and as national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists.

B.A. Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T.D. Dickinson College; D.D.  Virginia Theological Seminary.  Ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church and as a minister in the Presbyterian Church.
 
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